Supplement Supplemental! (Ravens, Foxes, and Fish – Chaosium Animal People Special)

Time for another round-up of RPG supplements I’ve been reading lately. This time, it’s a bunch of Chaosium supplements for various Basic Roleplaying-powered RPGs. There’s an extra linking factor here – all of the books relate, to one extent or another, to animal people. Cute! Let’s start by setting course for Iceland and the… Age of Vikings Companion (Age of Vikings) This is exactly what the cover implies it is: a companion volume to Age of Vikings, in the tradition of the Companion books that Chaosium did back in their early days for RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Elfquest, Ringworld, and Superworld. Whereas the RuneQuest Companion was a bit of a grab-bag of stuff that came out towards the end of its respective edition of the game, the other companions in question were among the earliest releases for the games in question, representing a mixture of material which didn’t make the cut for the core book, new expansions of the central concept, and additional tools and…