Dragonslayer RPG By Greg Gillespie

TheShadowSpawn · February 07, 2024, 07:05:30 PM

You can find the book on Drive Thru RPG now:

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/456030/dragonslayer-role-playing-game

Persimmon · February 07, 2024, 07:06:52 PM

Good to see Greg bringing boobs back into the game in all their line drawn glory. Now that takes me back to 1981 for sure.

WERDNA · February 07, 2024, 08:14:23 PM

Art in the trailer looked cool and the aforementioned halfway point between B/X and 1e sounds just right for how I like to play AD&D. Will need to look into this one.

Aglondir · February 08, 2024, 12:46:04 AM

No preview on DT-RPG?
Hope one is coming soon.

Zenoguy3 · February 08, 2024, 12:54:24 AM

Just got this today and been looking through it. Looks like a great consolodation of oldschool d&d between two covers. A perfect starting point to run games out of. I like the codification of marching order and the simplified and clarified combat sequence. I'm probably going to mod in some more extensive encumbrance and weapon detail stuff, mostly lifted from NGR. Looking forward to running a 50th celebration one shot dungeoncrawl using this, probably built by the included dungeon generator.

Eric Diaz · February 08, 2024, 09:03:45 AM

I'm curious. Looks good. Lack of preview doesn't help. Will wait for some reviews.

Opaopajr · February 08, 2024, 09:29:00 AM

Quote from: Persimmon on February 07, 2024, 07:06:52 PM
Good to see Greg bringing boobs back into the game in all their line drawn glory. Now that takes me back to 1981 for sure.

"I once was lost, but now I'm found..." like a religious hymn to revelation, "Bring Boobs Back!," boobs showed him the way.

This is the Way.

Boobs are the way.

Dropbear · February 08, 2024, 12:42:25 PM

I'm impressed so far but I have barely had time to read much. I got into Combat and I am really enjoying the simplicity of those rules thus far.

King Tyranno · February 08, 2024, 11:15:12 PM

Sounds ideal for my group. I ran OSE Advanced and it was fine but I think my group wanted more complexity. However $30 is too much for any PDF when Basic Fantasy, C&C, and others offer either free or cheap PDFs. And frankly $80 for a black & white PoD hardcover with DTRPGs usual inconsistant quality is not endearing me towards purchasing this. Hell DCC is only £48 on Amazon. That's about what I'd expect for a hardcover book.

S'mon · February 09, 2024, 04:10:52 AM

I have no need for another OSR game, probably about the only thing I'd buy right now is a 5e Basic D&D based game with some OSR stylings. If Gillespie published a separate art book I'd buy that though, the art he gets commissioned for this and for his megadungeons is absolutely fantastic.

Rhymer88 · February 09, 2024, 06:07:20 AM

If he brought out a book with all-new monsters I'd buy it. However, I don't need another book full of well-known spells and monsters, because I simply take them from AD&D.

Bogmagog · February 09, 2024, 06:58:15 AM

Awesome game. I don't like the price of the hardback and pdf but honestly I do not like the cost of anything these days. My pay has not increased in years but the cost of almost everything has grown by 20%-50%. My collecting of rpg's is now canceled for anything I will not use at the table. I wish this had come out first and saved me the money I spent on OSE. It's much better.

I would rather have spent another $20 on the hardback and got something better than print on demand is my only critique so far.

Persimmon · February 09, 2024, 08:33:45 AM

Quote from: Rhymer88 on February 09, 2024, 06:07:20 AM
If he brought out a book with all-new monsters I'd buy it. However, I don't need another book full of well-known spells and monsters, because I simply take them from AD&D.

There is a monster book, though they're not all new. Quite a few are; others are variants of classics. It's called Megadungeon Monster Manual: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/394352/Megadungeon-Monster-Manual

It's priced lower $32.99 for hardcover. And in the tradition of the monster books of yore, you get the treasure type table at the back. I quite like it, though I'd have preferred if he had included all these monsters in the Dragonslayer core book as well. I suppose I can bind my pdfs into one big volume.

Brad · February 09, 2024, 10:30:33 AM

Quote from: King Tyranno on February 08, 2024, 11:15:12 PM
Sounds ideal for my group. I ran OSE Advanced and it was fine but I think my group wanted more complexity. However $30 is too much for any PDF when Basic Fantasy, C&C, and others offer either free or cheap PDFs. And frankly $80 for a black & white PoD hardcover with DTRPGs usual inconsistant quality is not endearing me towards purchasing this. Hell DCC is only £48 on Amazon. That's about what I'd expect for a hardcover book.

He's a college professor or something, so his idea of pricing books is at the higher end of "outrageous". I'm sure you can pay $80 for the book then sell it back to him for $10 when a new revision is announced, then he'll resell for $75 and say the new rev won't be out until next year sucka.

Kanyenya · February 09, 2024, 12:05:28 PM

Quote from: S'mon on February 09, 2024, 04:10:52 AM
I have no need for another OSR game, probably about the only thing I'd buy right now is a 5e Basic D&D based game with some OSR stylings. If Gillespie published a separate art book I'd buy that though, the art he gets commissioned for this and for his megadungeons is absolutely fantastic.

I don't need another OSR game either, and hadn't planned on backing the Kickstarter until the Marxists lost their minds over it, so I decided to support the effort even if I wasn't going to play it (same reason I backed the ACKS Kickstarter).

That said, from my skimming of the PDF it looks pretty good; I need to do a more thorough read of it yet. The artwork is indeed quite nice as well. I also like how lots of it is a homage to 1E, from the "Paladin in Hell" to numerous monster illustrations.