What Happened to Dominion Games

[jchristl]

I am always on the lookout for new and alternative ideas. I love comparing what one system does as compared to another. I find myself reading more than playing.

Anyway, I came across a review and a link to http://www.dominiongames.com however the page is down. Looks like its been offline for 1.5 years now. Does anyone what happened (besides them running out of money)?

I was hoping to get ahold of their 2.0 rules and give it a good read, but I can't find them anywhere.

Does anyone know of a place I can download them from?

Thanks.

 

[jchristl]

guess no-one knows. I take it the rules were pretty bad?

 

[Greyharp]

Does anyone what happened (besides them running out of money)?

I was hoping to get ahold of their 2.0 rules and give it a good read, but I can't find them anywhere.

Does anyone know of a place I can download them from?

Thanks.

jchristl

I don't know what happened to the game or company, but a bit of a search turned up an archived version of their 2005 website and good news, the majority of the download links work (or did for me), including all the main rule booklets:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050101000000-20051231235959/http://www.dominiongames.com/download.html

Enjoy
Dave

 

[Wycen]

I don't know what happened to dominiongames, but this reminds me...

I wonder what happened to www.blackmagicgames.com ? Let's find out...

 

[jdrakeh]

Dominion Rules, as I'm certain you're aware, was an early open source RPG rule set. The advent of the OGL pretty much killed any public interest in this and other non-commercial open source RPG games at the time, thus similarly killing the groups responsible for publishing them. And, no, Dominion Rules wasn't bad -- it simply couldn't compete with a fully resurrected and open source D&D.

 

[Greyharp]

Here's another page of working archived Dominion downloads for the completist free rpg collector:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050208033420/www.dawndreamer.com/rpg.html