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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9259197" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>The version most Swedish gamers think of when they think of "the original" Drakar och Demoner is more properly version 2. Version 1 was more or less a straight translation of BRP + Magic World (with some changes), while version 2 was reworked into being a bit more of its own thing and was the first version to have the classical Elric painting on the cover. This edition consisted of a 64-page book in G5 format (somewhere between A4 and A5) plus assorted paraphernalia (dice, adventure, etc.), and the monster chapter took up 13 pages in said book with most monsters getting about half a page. As I recall, the core book was light on regular animals. Then you had the bestiary, Monsterboken, which I think also had 64 pages and about a hundred creatures split between regular animals, humanoids, magical beasts, and undead. There's a content list <a href="https://www.svenskarollspel.nu/wikia/Monsterboken" target="_blank">here</a>, but it's in Swedish so I don't know how much good it will do you. Later, a Monsterboken II was released with a similar split but also having a chapter about dinosaurs and one about elemental creatures.</p><p></p><p>One of the best features of Monsterboken and Monsterboken II were the illustrations. Pretty much all the monsters were drawn by Nils Gulliksson, looking like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]345466[/ATTACH]</p><p>If you're a Free League aficionado, you may have run across these before – they got the rights to reuse these rather heavily in Forbidden Lands (because Forbidden Lands started out as a stretch goal when they were making an art book collecting Gulliksson's art). To my eye, Gulliksson's B/W art is among the best RPG art I've seen, and it compares favorably to any 80s TSR B/W art I've seen.</p><p></p><p>Even later, in 1990, a boxed set bestiary (<em>Drakar och Demoner Monster</em>, known as "Monsterboxen" or "The Monster box") was released, with more of a focus on fantastical creatures and most mundane ones relegated to a number of templates. This box also provided a preview of the new rules that would be released in 1991, including giving creatures not intended for being PCs fixed stats instead of dice. Unfortunately, they made heavy use of non-Gulliksson art.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9259197, member: 907"] The version most Swedish gamers think of when they think of "the original" Drakar och Demoner is more properly version 2. Version 1 was more or less a straight translation of BRP + Magic World (with some changes), while version 2 was reworked into being a bit more of its own thing and was the first version to have the classical Elric painting on the cover. This edition consisted of a 64-page book in G5 format (somewhere between A4 and A5) plus assorted paraphernalia (dice, adventure, etc.), and the monster chapter took up 13 pages in said book with most monsters getting about half a page. As I recall, the core book was light on regular animals. Then you had the bestiary, Monsterboken, which I think also had 64 pages and about a hundred creatures split between regular animals, humanoids, magical beasts, and undead. There's a content list [URL='https://www.svenskarollspel.nu/wikia/Monsterboken']here[/URL], but it's in Swedish so I don't know how much good it will do you. Later, a Monsterboken II was released with a similar split but also having a chapter about dinosaurs and one about elemental creatures. One of the best features of Monsterboken and Monsterboken II were the illustrations. Pretty much all the monsters were drawn by Nils Gulliksson, looking like this: [ATTACH type="full"]345466[/ATTACH] If you're a Free League aficionado, you may have run across these before – they got the rights to reuse these rather heavily in Forbidden Lands (because Forbidden Lands started out as a stretch goal when they were making an art book collecting Gulliksson's art). To my eye, Gulliksson's B/W art is among the best RPG art I've seen, and it compares favorably to any 80s TSR B/W art I've seen. Even later, in 1990, a boxed set bestiary ([I]Drakar och Demoner Monster[/I], known as "Monsterboxen" or "The Monster box") was released, with more of a focus on fantastical creatures and most mundane ones relegated to a number of templates. This box also provided a preview of the new rules that would be released in 1991, including giving creatures not intended for being PCs fixed stats instead of dice. Unfortunately, they made heavy use of non-Gulliksson art. [/QUOTE]
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