The best edition of the best Spanish RPG ever. Highly recommended if you want a proper Middle Ages adventure. The 'fantastic' aspect of the world could be actually optional and use the system for just plain medieval sessions.

This book is a work of art. I am very happy with the preimum version. The pages are matte with an excellent feel, compared to the glossy pages in the offset printed version. Not saying either is better, it depends on your preference. Personally, I think the extra cost for PoD with premium color is worth it.

This book has a vast amount of information and creativity within. I love just flipping through it. You will learn about history, belief, superstition, etc, and you will enjoy it!

And last but not least, the game is fun as hell! This is all my group has played since I got it. We are now trying to amass everything about Aquelarre in English. It would be nice to have some more translations, but honestly there is so much content here (and in the Asturias supplement) that you can play this game for years without needing more.

Beautiful hardcover--met and exceeded all my expections for this tome. Highly recommend it for any advance GM/DM's library.

This is an exceptional dark historic demi fantastical rpg. Definitely for mature audiences who like games such as Chaosium family or even Harn. If you are intersted in running true medieval setting where the medieval mindset just also happened to be true. Then this one is for you.

The rules are familar enough to anybody who likes RuneQuest style games, although there are a few differences in stats and skills. The setting is reminiscent of Ars Magica in it's 3rd edition - being a very dark, medieval world with a very high level of authenticity based on historical research.

Set specifically in the Spanish Peninsular (this was Spain's No.1 RPG - translated for the first time into English) during the 13/14th Century (High Medieval Period), it's less structured than Ars Magica and there is no default campaign as such. However, the emphasis on demonology, based on the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths of the time, as well as the name ('Aquelarre' means 'Coven') suggests that the characters will possibly be dabbling in the dark arts of magic or at least dealing with them. Magic is based upon alchemical lore, again well researched, evocative and with a big spell/ritual list, and there is a comprehensive host of angels and demons involved in the background, as well as a bestiary featuring creatures from Spanish folklore. There is a clever core mechanic where characters are rated on a two-headed scale of Rationality/Irrationality. This serves as a Sanity mechanic, of sorts: The more Irrational you are the more you believe in the supernatural (and the more capable you are to practice magic), but the more Rational you are, the more resistant you are to it.

The time period has the Spanish Peninsular made up of five competing nations, again well researched and presented here with lots of information about the history and medieval society. Supplements will detail each nation seperately - but there is lots here already. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (!) but you could well play in a campaign based around this sort of investigative organisation (or have them as antagonists), along with a lot of other societies you could join (including military orders or fraternities). There are several introductory scenarios included.

This is a very rich setting, beautifully illustrated in a massive book, which is very much a work of passion. The Kickstarter campaign encountered some tragedy along the way, but both Stewart Weick (RIP) and Lester Smith (the translater) as well as the original writers, Ricard Ibáñez and co. have done the English speaking audience a service for making this great game available for the first time.

If you want to try a true "medieval fantastic" game that stands away from the rest, you should consider trying this one. The senior spanish RPG is one that will put you in the middle of the hard reality of the day to day of Spanish middle ages. This is to Pendragon what "Unforgiven" is to "The house on the prairie".

With a twist of magic and folk tales.

After a succesful Kickstarter that turned into a sad, bumpy road, Nocturnal Games has done a great job translating the colorful, hugue 565 pages "Codex". The almost written from scrap 3rd edition of a game that has been running on tables since 1990 and has more than 40 titles in the different spanish editions.

I really hope you enjoy it.

PS: If you want to know more about the game or to be part of its growing fan-base, please meet us at "AQUELARRE RPG IN ENGLISH" community on MeWe

Luis Gil / Lorenz Das Stift

Very accurate translation of the spanish version, with a random character creation more compact than in the original: in this version it is more up-to-the-point and intermingled with the list of background features.