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Dragonslayer RPG By Greg Gillespie

Started by TheShadowSpawn, August 28, 2023, 11:45:23 AM

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TheShadowSpawn

August 28, 2023, 11:45:23 AM

Here's the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonslayerrpg/dragonslayer-role-playing-game

I met Greg at North Texas RPG Con this year and he is truly a great designer, DM and a nice guy to boot. 

We have been playing in Barrowmaze and the Forbidden Caverns of Archaia for two years and constantly ran into issues using OSE Advanced not having the same spells and / or magic items as the modules. Its nice to see the hybrid game that we have been playing codified into a definite ruleset.
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Once upon a time, as kids in the late 1970s and early 1980s, we played the first role-playing game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

There were options at the time. Some played Basic and some most moved to First Edition (as best they could).

Most of us kept using the Basic Engine (elegantly restated by Tom Moldvay in 1981) and grafted the chrome of First Edition into our existing style of play. We used First Edition spells, character classes, monsters, and all the adventures. We left behind lame rules that bogged down gameplay and made it feel like actuarial science (for example, counting segments for spells or weapon-speed factors, among others).

This wasn't Moldvay Basic and it wasn't First Edition.

This was the edition we all played. We called it .75 or halfway between BX and 1E.

This is the ruleset that I've played for decades. This is how I play medieval fantasy role-playing games. This is the way I want to play fantasy role-playing games.

This is the ruleset I used to create and play some of the most popular and evocative megadungeon adventures on the RPG market today:

Barrowmaze, Archaia, HighFell, and Dwarrowdeep.

Both Archaia (2017) and Dwarrowdeep (2022) won the Three Castles Award for Independent Dame Design in recent years.

This...is the DragonslayerTM Role-Playing Game.

DragonslayerTM is a 300 page rulebook with cover art by legendary ex-TSR artist Jeff Easley.

Crusader X

#1
August 28, 2023, 06:33:10 PM
Greg sold me with "halfway between BX and 1E".  That's how we played back in the day.  I'll be backing this.

grimshwiz

#2
August 28, 2023, 06:53:14 PM
Backing without hesitation.

I

#3
August 28, 2023, 07:29:51 PM
I'll be backing it as well.

Slambo

#4
August 28, 2023, 07:43:11 PM
I want it but not sure if i can fit it in my budget.

Thorn Drumheller

#7
August 28, 2023, 09:32:46 PM
This is a good couple of days for kickstarter for me. First Larry Elmore's book and now this.

Now just eagerly awaiting Cities Without Number.
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Gegilles

#8
August 28, 2023, 10:37:25 PM
Here's a link to the teaser trailer

https://youtu.be/GNZkbb6zQmg?si=3M0rQSE9debgg92y

Vidgrip

#9
August 29, 2023, 08:22:20 AM
Drivethru has a "quickstart" you can download for free. It's really more like an extended preview. The art looks excellent and consistant, which I really appreciate. I respect what Gillespie is doing here, but probably won't back it. I already have other OSR games that cover this same exact ground. Those also support ascending armor class which Dragonslayer probably doesn't (that's just a guess at this point).

If you are looking to get one or two of his megadungeons at discount, there is that option with the kickstarter bundles.
Playing: John Carter of Mars, Hyperborea
Running: Swords & Wizardry Complete

Thor's Nads

#10
August 29, 2023, 09:10:53 AM
Sounds a lot like how we used to play. A sort of hybrid of basic and AD&D with the lame unnecessarily complicated rules tossed out.
Gen-Xtra

THE_Leopold

#11
August 29, 2023, 09:55:27 AM


I backed this immediately upon getting the notification.

God forbid he gets reviewed by Questing beast and this forum turns on him like they did Shadowdark like a pack of wolves on a wounded deer.
NKL4Lyfe

Eldrad

#12
August 29, 2023, 01:25:38 PM
This is going to be cool! I hope to write some more modules!

Persimmon

#13
August 29, 2023, 02:31:48 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 29, 2023, 09:55:27 AM


I backed this immediately upon getting the notification.

God forbid he gets reviewed by Questing beast and this forum turns on him like they did Shadowdark like a pack of wolves on a wounded deer.

Now that Greg has been "outed" by the woke mob, QB will likely avoid him like the plague even though he has positively reviewed Greg's stuff in the past. 

Thor's Nads

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August 29, 2023, 02:56:12 PM
Quote from: Persimmon on August 29, 2023, 02:31:48 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 29, 2023, 09:55:27 AM


I backed this immediately upon getting the notification.

God forbid he gets reviewed by Questing beast and this forum turns on him like they did Shadowdark like a pack of wolves on a wounded deer.

Now that Greg has been "outed" by the woke mob, QB will likely avoid him like the plague even though he has positively reviewed Greg's stuff in the past.

Wait, is Greg actually a rational human being who isn't an NPC? Ok, I have to back this KS now.
Gen-Xtra
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