The Dark Eye (TDE), the english translation of the german tabletop RPG 'Das Schwarze Auge' (DSA for short), has been for many years the most popular RPG in Germany, outselling D&D.
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Some history; in the early 1980's TSR, the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, decided to have D&D translated into German and published in Germany. They contacted a company called Schmidt Spiel, a German game manufacturer, which was to help them with the translation and publishing. Schmidt hired Ulrich Kiesow to perform the translation, but then there was a financial disagreement between TSR and Schmidt Spiel, and the project was terminated. A competitor of Schmidt Spiel obtained the license and published Kiesohttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7248515008776497550#editor/target=post;postID=7240873810203255025w's translation of D&D, leaving Schmidt without a product.
Schmidt Spiel of course wasn't happy with this turn of events and decided that they should come up with their own RPG, and it so happened that the very same Ulrich Kiesow who translated D&D into German had created a game called 'Aventurien' for himself and his friends. Schmidt bought the game from Kiesow, and renamed it "Das Schwarze Auge".
The game was published in German ("Das Schwarze Auge"), French ("L'Oeil Noir"), Dutch ("Het Oog des Meesters") and Italian ("Uno sguardo nel buio"), but not English until the fourth edition
The rule system is simple and elegant, yet very well structured and logical. Combat consists of an attack skill test for the attacker, and of a parry skill test for the defender. Armor values are subtracted from the damage rolls. Characters have vital energy and magic users also have astral energy, and the magic system involves skill checks and depleting the astral energy pool for each spell cast.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=277&highlight=dark+eye
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16082.phtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Eye
http://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/46365/the-dark-eye-basic-rules
http://files.mail.ru/737AAAA24A2E4B408D0348548CC009E5
Some history; in the early 1980's TSR, the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, decided to have D&D translated into German and published in Germany. They contacted a company called Schmidt Spiel, a German game manufacturer, which was to help them with the translation and publishing. Schmidt hired Ulrich Kiesow to perform the translation, but then there was a financial disagreement between TSR and Schmidt Spiel, and the project was terminated. A competitor of Schmidt Spiel obtained the license and published Kiesohttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7248515008776497550#editor/target=post;postID=7240873810203255025w's translation of D&D, leaving Schmidt without a product.
Schmidt Spiel of course wasn't happy with this turn of events and decided that they should come up with their own RPG, and it so happened that the very same Ulrich Kiesow who translated D&D into German had created a game called 'Aventurien' for himself and his friends. Schmidt bought the game from Kiesow, and renamed it "Das Schwarze Auge".
The game was published in German ("Das Schwarze Auge"), French ("L'Oeil Noir"), Dutch ("Het Oog des Meesters") and Italian ("Uno sguardo nel buio"), but not English until the fourth edition
The rule system is simple and elegant, yet very well structured and logical. Combat consists of an attack skill test for the attacker, and of a parry skill test for the defender. Armor values are subtracted from the damage rolls. Characters have vital energy and magic users also have astral energy, and the magic system involves skill checks and depleting the astral energy pool for each spell cast.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=277&highlight=dark+eye
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16082.phtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Eye
http://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/46365/the-dark-eye-basic-rules
http://files.mail.ru/737AAAA24A2E4B408D0348548CC009E5