I like Magic Realm, enough to have built muy own copy a decade or so back- sadly, a year or two before Karim’s redesign, though I did use the ‘other’ redesigned chits that had more info on them. I got it to the table a few times, and even though I thought I’d done a good job with figuring out the rules beforehand, it was inevitably a train wreck.
Good luck, Tom. Though @sharaleo’s links above look like they’ll make things easier- I know I have the 3.0 rules, and the Plain English, but the other stuff wasn’t around back then, though Quests of Magic Realm was. If you get into the game, you should definitely look that up.