Two Hardcover Sizes!

The Lulu hardcovers of the Dark Dungeon 2nd edition Starter Set also look excellent - in both incarnations! One is almost the same size as the original Player's Handbook once was - and the other one is a chique 6x9 pocket sized book with dust jacket.

Hardcovers are 25 euros each, with 10% off until Halloween ;-)

How it looks inside:

 

Here you can see how the paper of the small hardcover is creme colored:

 

One is casewrapped, the other has a dustjacket:

 

 

Pick #84: WTF?!, that's no WOW!

For those of you who play World of Warcraft, or know people who play WOW, or those of you who do not want to confess to either of these but know... well, what the truth is, there's this: WTF?!

WTF?! is not necessarily what you'd think it would spell out to be. It's basically what WOW might have been if it had been coded in Flash, in two dimensions. That's what it is: a spoof of WOW. And it's rather well done. Your first quest, as Stretch-eared Elf Lady Phallicity (I don't even want to think about what that means), is to kill eight poor piglets. It goes downhill from there. Or actually it doesn't. Best of all, it's free, if you don't consider time spent which you could have spent elsewhere, which cannot be said for WOW.

Have a try here.

Dark Dungeon Lulu Prints Look Good

Still waiting for the Lightningsource prints, but the LuLu prints look excellent to me!


This is the A4 softcover, which you can order here. It's only $19.99 in this version (that's about 15 euros).

Also I've taken off 10% from the Hardcover price until Halloween.
For early buyers :-)


Here's how it looks inside:

Product Release: Dark Dungeon 2nd Ed Starter Set

Finally, it's there! We passed the proofreaders!

The fully illustrated Dark Dungeon 2nd Edition Starter set.

Available as pdf through DriveThru, and in print through LuLu.

Soon, print will also be available through DriveThru.

What it is? Well...

Fantasy Role Playing Beyond Your Imagination.
Old School and Storytelling combined.
Realistic, Heroic, yet Elegant and Fast.

The original Dark Dungeon game was first played in the Netherlands, from 1989 onwards, as a "tabletop game".  It was playtested and used in thousands of adventures, in several cooperative game worlds, with hundreds of players.

Dark Dungeon 2nd edition is one of the most elegant, fast, and yet "realistic" sets of rules you'll find. And it's finally here, as an expanded, updated, fully illustrated starter set.

Featured in this 134 page book are:

- a glossary of role playing terms for the uninitiated
(if you want to explain to your sister, or your boyfriend)
- how to play
- extended character creation with eleven starter professions
- innovative spell weaving with ten sample disciplines, build your own spells!
- faith and miracles with four sample saints
- extended advice on game mastering and making your own adventures
- fantastic creatures, magickal treasures, countries of origin
- a sample adventure
- an "appendix N"
- dozens of illustrations

Buy, play, and enjoy.

Some Sample Art: Catacombs

Experimenting for a cover for the Catacombs sourcebook... which will describe the undercity of Samaris, for both players and Game Masters.

Now I wonder, where did that Vampyre go?

Random RPG Thoughts #13: Away From Keyboard...

Just noticed that I haven't posted for a month! That's rather long, especially as past month my blog was "RPG BLOG OF THE MONTH" on Stuffer Shack!

Now that's a strange thing to occur... All right I was busy, doing lots of real life stuff, and waiting for proofreaders who are hopefully vigilantly on a vacation somewhere, and so was I, for part of these weeks. And even Grognardia is slow last month. It's summer!

But, I guess it's also one of these periods that occurs just before or after a storm. A period of contemplation. A period of gestation. A period of something new that need to grow.

So hopefully I'll find some new innovations, new ways of thinking, or new ways of playing after thus period of being AFK - away from keyboard. And that's what I wonder about now. Do you (whomever you are, reading this) also have a need for such silent periods at times? A period to recharge, and change your game into something new?

I know I had periods of more than a few years, in which gaming went on a real low fire. Sometimes I really thought that I'd never game again - and was sorry for that at the same time. But eventually play always  re-emerged with a vengeange, and in a a new form.

How about you? Are such silences good? Are they there? Do we need them? What do they mean - these times of recuperation?

Free Download: Ringworld Zombie

Update: Ringworld Zombie is now available with all new artwork, as a print-on-demand high quality card deck from DriveThruCards. It's most fun with three or four players, but you can play solo too!

According to Rob Lang I now probably deserve a place in the special padded room for those who could not resist doing two 24-hour RPGs for the same competition. Yet, here is my second one:

RINGWORLD  Z O M B I E

It's a fast, fully illustrated, game-masterless card game (and a simple role playing game) involving a Ringworld, you playing prisoners, and... Zombies!

You can order the game from DriveThruCards here. Rules are on the cards, and/or a free pdf ruleset can be downloaded from here.

WARNING - CONFINED SPACE - NO SURVIVAL GUARANTEED