Ruin masters is a D100 old style high fantasy RPG. It is an unusual mixture of BRP and D100lite. It only uses 10 sided dice, damage uses exploding dice and Armour absorbs damage. There are only four attributes and six skills. I have only played it a couple of times but get the feeling that if you are silly that the character could get killed. I rather like that. A lot of rules are about hex crawling and dungeoneering. There is only a limited amount of magic and although a large amount of fantasy creatures exist in stat form only on some reference tables the actual described part of the bestiary is quite limited. We are told however that a bestiary is coming out.

There have been a couple of comments about text errors by a few purchasers relating to English not being the authors first language but these are only minor quibbles and I can assure you that their English is very good indeed. The final production looks sumptuous yet there are a number of minor syntax errors in the book which could have been easily corrected. Perhaps a further updated version will do just that.

If you like high fantasy and haven’t found your system, then this could be just what you are looking for. I you have found the system you want, this game might offer a fun alternative. Ruin Masters has a direct kill the monsters and take their stuff feel about it, but with little effort will do so much more.