Green Ronin have posted some PDFs of pages from their Dragon Age rpg. You can find them, and a designer's diary, here:

http://greenronin.com/dragon_age/

I think this is a fascinating project - a high profile publisher doing what is very much an old school rpg, and one to boot that is clearly aimed at getting new players to try tabletop rpgs.

I've been looking forward to this game for awhile.  The PDF previews look good, but I'm waiting for the box set.

  Hopefully the game is as rules lite as they claim.

I like the look of the video game. I dunno if I'm all that interested in the pencil & paper interpretation of it.

Quote from: Glazer;347526I think this is a fascinating project - a high profile publisher doing what is very much an old school rpg, and one to boot that is clearly aimed at getting new players to try tabletop rpgs.

I hope it works. And, hopefully some other game follow suit then. We need new blood in the hobby.

While I wouldn't want to play a PnP RPG that is a direct translation of the CRPG.  The PnP seems to be taking the core concepts but flushing them out.  The race/class choices are still limiting but they more flexible nature of the design offers freedoms not seen in the CPRG.   I think as a whole the product seems solid so far.  Still not sure it's for me.  But it looks good.

Although I'm not in the market for yet another FRPG, this product looks promising.  A rules light-ish, 'basic set' (levels 1-5) FRPG with decent distribution is a good move, IMO, for both GR and the hobby as a whole.  I wish them luck.

Yes, I also wish them luck.

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Quote from: ColonelHardisson;347551I like the look of the video game. I dunno if I'm all that interested in the pencil & paper interpretation of it.

Interestingly, many of the comments (some of them my own...) regarding Dragon Age was the that the best part of the game was the richness of the setting.  In essence, as long as the rules are functional and appropriate, and don't try some wonky nonsense about 'capturing the video game experience' or some such, I am reasonably excited about the possibilities.


What this needs more than an actual 'game book' is a 'setting book' that is supportable by any good existing fantasy RPG (er... not 4E D&D, please... I'd take world of Synnibar over that...).

It would be cool to adventure in the decaying Trevinter Empire or travel with an Orlesian bard, or visit the Chasid barbarians in southern Ferelden...

Which is what a game should do: Give you a world you WANT to explore and interact with.  Only accountants can love a game for its elegant rules.

I can think of over 2,000 reasons I want this book to sell well.

Hopefully this will not be another "fantasy heartbreaker", for lack of a better term.

Quote from: Spike;347596(er... not 4E D&D, please... I'd take world of Synnibar over that...)

I guess it's personal preference, but I don't see that 4e would be a bad fit for it, from what I've seen. But hell, I wouldn't mind seeing a HackMaster-based game for it...

Indeed: Personal bias.  I never claim otherwise.  Still, there are also logical and rational reasons to avoid 4E, not the least of which is that Hasbro/WOTC tend to be all 'include all of our cool races and monsters in your setting regardless of how appropriate they are'... and that would pretty much break the setting.

And even if they didn't, some jackhole with a hard-on for... oh, I dunno... teifling ninja-stripper babes who are also warlocks would insist that playing one is legal and valid, despite being totally at odds with the setting.

Well, maybe not ninja-stripper babes.  Apparently Orleasians and Antivans are pretty open minded and inclined to sneaky assassin types.

I want it, but I'm turned off that its 4 box sets of 5 player levels each milking it for all its worth.

Quote from: BloodyCactus;347649I want it, but I'm turned off that its 4 box sets of 5 player levels each milking it for all its worth.

Looks like the marketing model for the old D&D Mentzer box sets from the 1980's

- basic
- expert
- companion
- master
- immortal

Quote from: ggroy;347653Looks like the marketing model for the old D&D Mentzer box sets from the 1980's

- basic
- expert
- companion
- master
- immortal

yeah he did an interview and said the same thing.  If you read his design diary its basically d&d with enough changes to avoid copyright.

$30, boxset 1 is 2x64page booklets, 3 dice and a color map. covering levels 1-5...

charge me $50 and give me the whole thing in 1 box set... I want this but I dont want to pay $120 for 4 box sets, 8 64page booklets that require me to thumb through each one to find some XYZ because it applies from level 6-7.. Will I get two giant indexes that will cover all 4 books?

what if it does not have enough momentum and they decide not to release the lats two box sets?

Gonna put some more rum in my eggnog and turn off the pessimistic side for a while