EverQuest Role-Playing Game

Infobox RPG
title= EverQuest Role-Playing Game


caption= Cover of "EverQuest Role-Playing Game" Player's Handbook
designer= "unknown"
publisher= Sword & Sorcery Studios
date=2002 (1st edition) 2005 ("EverQuest II Player's Guide")
genre= Fantasy
system= d20 System variant
footnotes= The "EverQuest Role-Playing Game" is a role-playing game based on the "EverQuest" fantasy MMORPG. The game line is published by White Wolf under its Sword & Sorcery imprint. EQRPG shares many things with the MMORPG, such as setting, available races and classes, monsters, spells, items, and so on.

History

EQRPG was first published in summer 2002 under Wizards of the Coast's Open Gaming License using a system nearly identical to the d20 System; however, it was not d20 System branded because it included rules for character creation and advancement.Fact|date=October 2007

In early 2005, a major revision in the form of the Everquest II Player's Guide was released. This began to evolve away from the d20 system.Fact|date=October 2007 A notable example is its approach to classes. There are only four character classes, called "Archetypes", available to starting characters. Each archetype has several more advanced classes, called "Classes" and "Subclasses", associated with it; these work much like prestige classes in standard d20 System games. Characters can freely mix the four basic archetypes, but may only take the more advanced classes associated with "one" of the archetypes.Fact|date=October 2007

This Player's Guide did not contain rules for magic. A free download at Sword & Sorcery's web site did give basic spells for low-level characters. Almost a year later, on March 1, 2006, the full Spell Guide, which gave the core rules for magic, was published in PDF form only. Fact|date=October 2007

Freelancers and customer service representatives have stated that future Everquest releases, if any, will have statistics for both the Everquest and Everquest II games, rather than being exclusively for one or the other.Fact|date=October 2007

External links

* White Wolf's [http://secure1.white-wolf.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=42 EverQuest II Role-Playing Game homepage]