Playbook

The Playbook comes with the original release of Ultima I (then only named "Ultima") from California Pacific. It is 10 pages long. In-game, an unknown Sosarian is the author of the book. In real-life, Richard Garriott has written the book. In the remake, it was replaced with the book The First Age of Darkness.

The following topics are part of the book:
 * Loading Instructions
 * Movement
 * Space Travel

The book is basically little more than an instruction manual with no narrative. However, unusual for 1980, it sports lots of nice illustrations -done by Denis Loubet- which mostly show pictures of the various monsters encountered in the game.

The book is available as a pdf-file. Find it here: The Book