Orlando Furioso: Il gioco di ruolo dei Paladini di Re Carlo (2002)

In this very steamlined fantasy RPG, all player are Paladins, Moorish warriors and other characters of the Renaissance poems about King Charlemagne. The system is the same "Qui comincia l'avventura" that already appeared in Mediterraneo. Some special rules have been added to suit the specific setting as the one for combat on horse.

The literary setting has been choosed since the first publisher has been the Biblioteca Centrale dei Ragazzi, the Kids' Library of the Rome City Council: So the setting can appeal librarians, teachers and parents. But players too, since the game contains all the ingredients of the most classic epic fantasy: Heroic knights, wizards, monsters, magic items and so on. The tone is fantastic and lightly humorous, as in Ariosto's poem: paradoxes are even present in the adventures, as sometime where in the literary world of the Italian poet.

This is the second edition, aimed to players - both experts and beginners. It include all the previously released rules and a few new sections, as rules about magic and magic items, and a humorous sourcebook "Il mondo dell'Orlando Furioso spiegato ai cavalieri che intendano avventurarvisi" ("The world of Orlando Furioso explained to the kingts that plan to venture there") details all the fantastic places described in the poem. It features an enlarged bestiary and the same adventure "La pazienza di Re Carlo" ("The patience of King Charles") that was already in the first edition.