Goblin Slayer TTRPG preorder

[Myrdin Potter]

I just preordered the Goblin Slayer RPG:

Goblin Slayer Tabletop Roleplaying Game: Kagyu, Kumo, Kannatuki, Noboru: 9781975318314: Amazon.com: Books

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I am not going to apologize for the anime (the first episode establishes how bad goblins are via a rape scene - obviously not fully shown as a TV program but no doubt what is happening). Hopefully this thread will not be filled by that discussion and get locked.

I am buying this because it is the first official English version of Sword World (edit op said Dungeon), the largest Japanese fantasy rpg. I have the first rulebook in Japanese (Picked it up on one of my business trips to Tokyo) , but I don’t read Japanese so having an English version is something I have been waiting for quite a while.

(when I link from Amazon it automatically pulls an affiliate link. I have not figured out how to get the pure link on my phone, so mentioning that here).

 

[Alzrius]

Thanks for the notice! Preordered!

 

[DarkCrisis]

Don’t you mean Sword World which came about from D&D Basic (see Lodoss War)?

While the GS anime had some cheesecake issues it was pretty good. Obviously cribbed a lot from D&D. I may check out the RPG. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

Don’t you mean Sword World which came about from D&D Basic (see Lodoss War)?

While the GS anime had some cheesecake issues it was pretty good. Obviously cribbed a lot from D&D. I may check out the RPG. Thanks for the heads up.

That is what happens when posting away from my book.

Yes, Sword World. I have the 1st rulebook to version 2.0.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

That is what happens when posting away from my book.

Yes, Sword World. I have the 1st rulebook to version 2.0.

 

[jdrakeh]

I'd be willing to pre-order this if Amazon hadn't just cheated me out of $40 over the holidays (ordered a book that didn't ship, now being told is out of stock - despite the website saying that it's in stock - and told to re-order and MAYBE they'll refund my first order).

 

[Myrdin Potter]

It finally came out this week and I have all 600+ pages of it in hand. Manga digest size - slightly smaller than A5.

 

[Crusadius]

It finally came out this week and I have all 600+ pages of it in hand. Manga digest size - slightly smaller than A5.

So what is the quality of the book? I felt the Konosuba RPG could have used better paper quality so am interested in a comparison.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

So what is the quality of the book? I felt the Konosuba RPG could have used better paper quality so am interested in a comparison.

About the same as many Japanese manga books. Not newsprint quality paper, but certainly not heavy and bright white paper. I don’t know enough about all the technical ways to talk about paper but not tissue thin so it will fold or tear easy and an off-white tone but smooth. Ink is not intense, like the paper absorbed a little?

No where near as artwork saturated as seems to be expected from rule books today, some art but not much.

 

[Alzrius]

It finally came out this week and I have all 600+ pages of it in hand. Manga digest size - slightly smaller than A5.

I'll admit to being surprised when I saw its dimensions. Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying the book, I just presumed it would be more like a traditional Western RPG in terms of size and layout.