[Epic RPG] Quick Start Guide Released!

[Reimdall]

July 27, 2008 (Bozeman, MT) – Dark Matter Studios, producer of the well-received fantasy rpg Epic Role Playing, has released its latest offering, the Quick Start Guide in PDF format.  A sleek and maneuverable 100 pages, the QSG is a perfect intro for players wanting to know more about the ENnie Award nominated ruleset.

This PDF guide is a down-and-dirty primer to the Epic Role Playing game system. Easily accessible in electronic format, the Quick Start Guide is ready to introduce interested players to the game. As much information as possible has been compressed into this introductory guide book: core rules, character creation process, skills and experience, arcane magic, treasure, teasers from the full game system and more.

"For a while we've wanted to create a way for interested players to test-drive the basics of the Epic RPG system before purchasing the full ruleset," commented Kent Davis, one of the two principal partner/designers.  "The Quick Start Guide is a great balance between size and substance, and we're delighted we can offer it for less than the cost of a movie ticket."

The Quick Start Guide is completely compatible with the full Epic Role Playing ruleset contained in the Game Manual. It's everything new players need to start up an Epic RPG game and lay straight into some harrowing adventure.

About Epic RPG Offering a platform that is flexible and realistic, the Epic RPG system still retains enough opportunities for death-defying heroism to satisfy the wildest imagination.  Highlights include classless character design that integrates characters into a society through culturally defined professions; elegant and choice-filled combat; unique magic with disciplines such as the arcane science of metaphysics and the body magic called shen; a flexible skill system based on talent that allows players to customize their character's growth with skills, specialties, masteries, and grandmasteries; and a fantasy setting abundant with disparate races, astounding civilizations, and captivating geographies.

Available exclusively in digital PDF format, the Epic RPG Quick Start Guide is now available for purchase from the Epic Role Playing store.  

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About Dark Matter Studios, LLC.  Dark Matter and Epic Role Playing (http://epicrpg.com) are based in the beautiful mountain town of Bozeman, Montana. Dark Matter is committed to making games that we ourselves want to play, not corporate products tested for brand maximization. We believe that intricate, engaging story and jawdropping, detailed action can coexist. Epic Role Playing is a game made by players for playing.


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[Kyle Aaron]

Have you considered offering the quick start as a freebie? Many game companies do that, have a "lite" version for free, and the main one paid for. EABAnywhere, Iridium Lite, there are many.

Of course if the quick start you've got feels like too much to give away - and it certainly looks like it! - you could make a SuperQuickStart of 10 pages or something...

I don't know the financials and legals of your situation, I'm just tossing the idea out there for you. Others have tried it and it's worked well for them; it might - or might not - for you.

Though you have the free adventures there so perhaps we're just being greedy

[Zachary The First]

I just downloaded it, and it is pretty chunky for a Quick Start--a fiver seems pretty fair.  A Quick, Quick-Start Guide?  I like the title! I need to get some handouts out with a quick rules overview for my current group (although the Game Manual has most of what I will use for handouts, that is one item that might be extra).

[Reimdall]

Hmmm. Interesting, guys.  A single page rules overview (maybe two-sided) might be a nice extra perq.

Or the Quick Quick.

Kyle - Yup, we really went round and round about the size and cost of the doc.  I very much wanted it to be a thing that people could sit down and use, however, and there was just too much we wanted to show.  I've never been very good at killing the darlings....  Legally, we're creative commons happy and delighted to have folks use what we've got for their personal use.  

One of my still favorite adaptations - for partially sentimental reasons - is a Darklands (as in the brilliant old PC game) campaign using the Epic system.  Check it out here.  In retrospect it's not really germane to the conversation I guess, but it's really frickin cool.  

Another idea we've had was to revamp the free adventures just a tad, so that we'd include a smidge more mechanics in them, which might be coming down the pike soon, although there's a couple of new new projects that keep grabbing our attention. You know how it is.

[Zachary The First]

Another idea we've had was to revamp the free adventures just a tad, so that we'd include a smidge more mechanics in them, which might be coming down the pike soon, although there's a couple of new new projects that keep grabbing our attention. You know how it is.

You know, actually dropping about 5 pages in the adventures with a 1-2 pg rules synopsis and a couple of sample characters might be a good way to go about it.  The nice thing would be the majority of it is already done, I guess.