Anybody playing Dragon Warriors?

[Eternalknight]

My understanding is they didn't change any of the core rules or mechanics (no cleaning up) besides a few tweaks to the character classes. The actual lack of "clunkyness" that you report is something left over from the original game.

I think this was the case, yes.

 

[dbm]

I haven't picked up the new books yet (though I will) but I do still have the six original books.

We played this extensively back when it originally came out - in fact when I started playing there was just two books!

The Warlock is still my favourite class from any RPG, ever.

Cheers,
Dan

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, than I bow towards the original designers of the game, I suppose.

 

[tylerthehobo]

Glad to hear all of the fond memories with this. My primary group is, largely, not a bunch of sticklers on rules - more beer and pretzels with enough guidance to keep the game manageable. Sounds like this will be a good fit! We've been playing RuneQuest lately, and most folks are really enjoying it, but the depth of the rules has confused a few folks (interestingly, the same ones who like the almost identical rules set in CoC...weird!).

 

[maransreth]

The only gaming I am doing at the moment is Dragon Warriors. The DM and I both had the originaly books (still have all 6 of mine) and gamed alot with them.

The DM picked up the revised book and Bestiary due to nostalgia and wanted to know if I would be interested in playing and we convinced the other players in our group.

So 5 intrepid adventurers are currently searching for Robin Hood - 3 Knights, 1 Mystic and 1 Assassin.

 

[Lancelot]

Picked up the new Mongoose books for nostalgia, but am increasingly thinking of ways I can convince my group to give it a go for a mini-campaign. I love the setting, and I'm really hoping to see some new material after the re-release of the Power of Darkness.

 

[Ant]

I'm running a modified version of the Sleeping Gods campaign using the new books. We started with 3 players and now have 5 regulars. It's been a whole lot of fun so far (we've played 3 sessions to date).

I like the rule system, though it has some quirks. It should be said that, along with 3.5, I love OD&D and BECMI D&D so the Dragon Warriors rules really are my cup of tea.

The real strength of Dragon Warriors is not the rules, however. It's the wonderful and evocative setting.

 

[Falstaff]

I bought the new Core Book, monster book, and campaign book (sleeping gods). I ran some of sleeping gods for a month or so and my players really enjoyed it. But since the new HMb is out, no more DW. I do see us returning to DW in the future though. Great game.

 

[jian]

One minor RPG related hobby of mine is reading and summarising RPGs, often changing the rules a little to my preferences. So I did that today with Dragon Warriors, since I’ve had the pdf for a while.

DW is an interesting artifact of simpler times. I do like the armour bypass roll - it’s a clever mechanism and reminds me a bit of Daggerheart. I like the implied semi-Arthurian setting rich in U.K. folklore (I’m going to pretend I didn’t see the ninja). I renamed some of the Professions (the ninja, I mean, Assassin, is now the Trickster and the Barbarian is the Woodsman). The main problem, I think, compared to some more recent RPGs I’ve recently summarised (such as Advanced Tiny Dungeon) is that there are very few combat choices. It’s not at all a tactical game (and that’s fine, we can’t all be D&D 4E) and so combat is just fairly routine, it’s mostly about the storytelling and non-combat player choices, much like many old school games.