Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Yeah since Shadowdark doesn't count, I would vote for Dragonbane.
What Non-D&D Would You Use For A Dungeon Focused Campaign
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Yeah since Shadowdark doesn't count, I would vote for Dragonbane.
D&D-style? The Fantasy Trip for something simple, beer & pretzel style or HERO for the Full Monty.
Sci-Fant? Shadowrun or Star Wars D20.
Sci-fi? Traveller or Prime Directive.
Sci-Fant? Shadowrun or Star Wars D20.
Sci-fi? Traveller or Prime Directive.
Naturally I’m going to say QuestWorlds, and mention that Loner has a good dungeon fantasy book.
To take things in a different direction, Adventure and Leverage provide good support for dungeon leaping, swinging, and generally carrying on instead of crawling. You’ve got the tools for disguises, spying, con games, and the like, and you can easily attach a magic system like Shadowdark’s, or something quite different. Trinity psychic powers could take the place of a magic system.
To take things in a different direction, Adventure and Leverage provide good support for dungeon leaping, swinging, and generally carrying on instead of crawling. You’ve got the tools for disguises, spying, con games, and the like, and you can easily attach a magic system like Shadowdark’s, or something quite different. Trinity psychic powers could take the place of a magic system.
At the moment I would feel like I have lots of dungeon crawling options open to me. Both Draw Steel and Daggerheart would be really interesting to try. I still haven’t gotten Dragonbane to the table, or The Fantasy Trip either. Then I have stalwarts of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy or an implementation of Savage Worlds (two first party options here - Savage Pathfinder or via the Fantasy Companion). Truly an embarrassment of riches.
Which I would go with would depend on the type of dungeon focussed game I wanted to run. Daggerheart seems a bit more ‘dramatic’ perhaps? Draw Steel is high action, Savage Worlds pulp action. Dragonbane, GURPS and TFT are all more grounds with different levels of gritty in them.
Which I would go with would depend on the type of dungeon focussed game I wanted to run. Daggerheart seems a bit more ‘dramatic’ perhaps? Draw Steel is high action, Savage Worlds pulp action. Dragonbane, GURPS and TFT are all more grounds with different levels of gritty in them.
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
Is there a quickstart for TB2E? I found a free introductory adventure, but it does not seem to have the rules of play included.
Was going to recommend this! I think this is one of the most modern "ground-up" designs specifically to "make dungeon crawling fun" that took the play ethos built up in the OSR blog sphere but adjusts the design and procedures to help the GM and players achieve that and keep Interesting Choices at the heart of play.
It's got a decent bit of Darkest Dungeon etc style stuff going on in there too.
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
That looks interesting. I am not a huge fan of the tarot card bit, but I would love to find a dungeon game that was more about the crawl than the combat.
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
What is your 100 words or less summary of Questworlds?
