The Willow Sourcebook: The People, Places, Monsters, and Magic of George Lucas's Hit Film

by Allen W. Varney and Allen Varney

The Willow Sourcebook Includes: * Detailed histories of Willow, Madmartigan, Bavmorda, and every important character from the movie. * The cultures and beliefs of the Nelwyns, the soldiers of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312930836
• ISBN13: 9780312930837
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More than a gaming book

First lets get down to the basics. This is supposed to be a sourcebook for a role playing game based on the Willow movie. The book itself is not a compete core rules kind of book. It's better. Not because it has more gaming information. Far from it. I like it better because it is a valuable resource of the history, characters, creatures and lands of the movie. Best of all for you "is it official?" crowd the book is 100% officially confirmed by LucasFilm (the dudes who made the movie). Regarding the game side you essentially port Dungeon and Dragons style rules to the game and you're set. The book provides stats for characters and creatures as well as details on how spells work. It's not a wealth of gaming knowledge, but then again that's not makes this game sweet. The real meat and potatos of this book is the background information you get on the world of Willow. I mean you get just about anyting you can think of. You get detailed histories of all the major characters (Willow, Madmartigan, Bavmorda, and much more) as well as several minor characters. You get comprehensive backgrounds on the various monsters and races too (trolls, brownies, death dogs, and more). You get all of that and more. The book was written by Allen Varney, who has written game books for Mage: The Ascention, Paranoia, Dungeons and Dragons, and Marvel Heroes. The book is published by Eric Goldberg Associates, who are known for game books like Paranoia and stuff like kid's toys. Finally the book is distributed by Tor Books, who is a big name in science fiction and fantasy books. How can you go wrong with a combination like that? If you are a fan of the movie this book is a definite must, and not because you can play a pencil and paper game based on the movie. This book is as good as any Star Wars or Star Trek book that details their respecive universes. If you are a fan of fantasy settings than, of course, this book is worth getting for the same reasons stated above.