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Grognardia reviews Dungeonslayers
1May 14, 2009
Yesterday James Maliszewski of Grognardia has posted a review of Dungeonslayers. He has written a pretty detailed review and gave Dungeonslayers some praise, although he had some problems with the translation. Especially that part of the review hurts me just a little bit, perhaps because I did the bulk of the translation. But of course I am no native speaker and it seems we missed a few odd phrasings. Here’s an excerpt from his review:
I mention the translation at all, because, for its length,Dungeonslayers is in fact a very good game — simple without being simplistic, focused without being narrow, and very much in keeping with the spirit of old school gaming, even if its mechanics owe more to 3e than to OD&D. In this respect, Dungeonslayers reminded me a bit of Microlite20, another excellent minimalist RPG that pares down the bloat of the D20 rules to a more manageable level (and that serves as the basis for the terrific Microlite74 rules). That said, Dungeonslayers is most emphatically a modern game; it’s rules are not old school so much as designed to emulate the freewheeling style of old school games. For that reason, I suspect it’s probably more of interest to gamers who either aren’t interested in going “back to the source” or who never played such games in the first place.
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By the way, if you know of other Dungeonslayers reviews please let me know!
Dungeonslayers review @ “Here Be Gamers”
0May 11, 2009
The roleplaying podcast “Here Be Gamers” has been reviewing Dungeonslayers, the game I helped translating from German to English some weeks ago. If you like listening to RPG podcasts and are still undecided, you should check out episode #5 of “Here Be Gamers”:
Episode 5 – A sailor’s life for me!
A very full episode with heaps of news and general discussion. This episode we talk about a bunch of board games and review The Uncharted Seas by Spartan Games and the free RPG DungeonSlayers.
We also want to make people aware of the very fine www.Drawtism.com.au which is raising awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders by getting people to play games of Pictionary. Check out this great cause.
I have to admit I’ve never heard of the “Here Be Gamers” podcast before, but it seems fun to listen to. Check it out.
Dungeonslayers: GM shield
0April 16, 2009
There’s now an official Dungeonslayers gamemaster screen called a GM shield (I think there are not enough rules for a proper screen). Here’s the blurb from the official site:
Behold the Dungeonslayers gamemaster shield, the solution for all troubled gamemasters who are constantly fighting with those long and extremely complicated rules!
The gamemaster shield (no, we didn’t have enough material for a real gamemaster screen) lists all important rules and tables for your convenience and can be used to separate the gamemaster’s territory from the players’ part of the table!
You can get the gamemaster shield in our download section.
The Dungeonslayers gamemaster shield makes running DS even easier then before, so what are you waiting for? Put on some chainmail, draw your sword, ready some spells and let’s explore some dungeons!
Le jeu de rôle à l’ancienne and Wikislayers
4March 30, 2009
The work on Dungeonslayers never stops:
Today Christian Kennig announced that a french translation of Dungeonslayers will be released as soon as the work on the layout is completed.
In the meantime Michael Garcia has created a Dungeonslayers wiki that is meant as a collaboration tool for work on further translations and rule variants. He has already posted some early drafts of the things he’s currently working on. If you want to help you can sign up here.
New adventure for Dungeonslayers
1March 26, 2009
Yesterday a new one-paged mini-adventure called “The Brigands of Lyrkenfenn” has been released. It’s the first of a series of short adventures that can be used for one-shot adventures or as part of an ongoing campaign.
The Dungeon2Go series is meant for GMs who don’t have that much time to prepare the game. Every one-sheet-adventure features a new dungeon and a complete story that you can run in a couple of hours. There are already four Dungeon2Go adventures available for the German version of the game that are now translated into English.
For more details check out the official Dungeonslayers site. You can directly download the adventure here.
Dungeonslayers: The Thieves of Lyrkenfenn
0March 13, 2009
Today one of the new members of the english Dungeonslayers community called ur_hekau has posted an translation of the first Dungeon2Go adventure. You still need the german PDF to run the adventure and but he has translated all texts down to the NPC stat blocks using intuition and online translators. And he has done an awesome job! That’s why I love working on that game.
UPDATE: That’s really impressive! He has done it again! Just minutes ago he posted the complete translation of the second Dungeon2Go adventure on the forums. English Dungeonslayers GMs can now run “Tomb of the Wizard King”.
“Feuerwerk” released
2March 12, 2009
Today the second supplement for Dungeonslayers has been released. “Feuerwerk” is a 6-page PDF which include rules for firearms, bombs, cannons, firearms accessories and even a new class of spellcaster, the Arcane Pistoleer. The booklet was written by me and Christian Kennig did another great job with the layout. The awesome cover was created by Ryan Culver. The booklet is currently available in German language only but perhaps I will release some translated excerpts in the coming weeks.
You can download the booklet (6-page PDF, 1.6 MB) here.
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