The Spawn of Fashan is a role-playing game published by The Games of Fashan in 1981.
Contents
Description
The Spawn of Fashan is a fantasy system. The rulebook includes a character-creation system, combat rules, guidelines for creating wilderness, towns, and dungeons, monster descriptions, a brief description of a campaign setting (the land of "Boosboodle"), and an example of play.
Publication history
The Spawn of Fashan was designed by Kirby Lee Davis, and published by The Games of Fashan in 1981 as a 96-page book, part typeset, part typewriter. The second edition was published that same year, and was fully typeset.
Reception
Lawrence Schick describes the game: "Hilariously bad fantasy system, legendary among RP game designers as the epitome of clichéd, amateurish FRP games. (Some maintain that it is so bad, it must be a hoax.) The rulebook includes a bizarrely complex character-creation system, painfully cumbersome combat rules [and] monster descriptions (with names like 'makl,' 'foklom,' 'finikor,' and 'rolmtrokl')". He also notes that this game is a "highly collectible item".