Character Codex

{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game supplement}}

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Character Codex is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1979.

Contents

Character Codex is a players' aid, a book of character record sheets, each with an illustration portraying a character of the appropriate class. It also includes an equipment price list.

Publication history

Character Codex features art by Jennell Jaquays{{efn|name=Credited|Credited as Paul Jaquays.}}, and was published by Judges Guild in 1979 as a 96-page book.{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|authorlink=Lawrence Schick|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=88}}

TSR extended Judges Guild's license to include Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in 1978, which allowed Judges Guild to produce many more products in that line, beginning with the Character Codex (1979).{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons: The '70s|publisher=Evil Hat Productions|year=2014| isbn=978-1-61317-075-5}}{{rp|196}}

Reception

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Notes

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References