Genin Trail by Joe Adams and Brent Bailey is a role playing game supplement published by Columbia Games Inc. for use with Hârn and HârnMaster. The supplement describes one of Hârn’s major trade routes.
The supplement is available as an eight-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $7.98 but was purchased at a reduced price thanks to a special discount.
The opening paragraphs explain that the trade route is named after a Melderyni mage and travels through Melderyn, Chybisa and Kaldor, as well as barbarian-infested wilderness, connecting Thay and Tashal. There are some details on caravans, travellers and the common times for it to be used, with a sidebar giving the regions passed through, approximate travel times and costs for tagging along.
History gives details on the trade route’s history and Genin’s possible connection to the trail, with a sidebar giving details of a legend related to a creature that Genin apparently imprisoned.
Current Situation looks at the trail in the present day, and there’s a map showing the route.
Thay to Laket covers this portion of the trail. Though Thay is the closest port to Lythia, all foreign ships must go to Cherafir first. The sidebar covers teamsters and camp followers.
Laket to Burzyn covers this section of the trail and a sidebar covers adventures in the Anadels.
Birzyn to Kobing coves the next section of the trail and the sidebar covers adventures by the Osel.
Kobing to Tashal covers the final stage of the route with the sidebar covering caravan guards.
Finally, Genin Trail NPCs gives some details on six NPCs.
Genin Trail in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and, though short, has enough sections that they would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text is primarily one column with sidebar, with a couple of pages being two columns, and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of colour and black and white illustrations. Presentation is decent.
Though the supplement is written for Hârn, there are no stats and it’s therefore usable with any system. By the nature of what the supplement covers, it is less use by itself; with it covering a trail stretching across several countries and regions, details on at least some of those will be needed. Genin Trail is, like many Hârn supplements, expensive at full price and it can be found by clicking here.
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