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Title: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on February 18, 2021, 03:09:04 PM
Christmas came early... or a couple months late... whichever!

(https://i.postimg.cc/3wmdkTjf/Lion-Dragon.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Very stoked to get to reading these!
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Shawn Driscoll on February 19, 2021, 06:19:00 PM
Love those books.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: PFrota on February 28, 2021, 03:52:50 PM
How's the quality? I got my copies from Amazon and I wonder if they're the same?

I've never bought anything physical on dtrpg, but I want to get Star Adventurer and the Old School Companion this month.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on February 28, 2021, 10:10:47 PM
I thought the print quality was good!  No smudges, pixelization or bad pages that I've come across yet.  The overall paper quality is fine... not premium paper of course, but it's not bad!
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on March 02, 2021, 10:43:54 PM
Well, I bit the bullet and ordered a print copy of Old School Companion.  I wish I'd just done that in the first place, but it was one of my earliest buys from the Pundit and I didn't wanna commit to something I was unsure of. Having read the PDF - and bought the print copies of Lion & Dragon and such - I want a copy for my table. ;)
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: PFrota on March 02, 2021, 10:58:58 PM
I bought physical copies of Star Adventures and Old School Companion last Monday. Let's hope they get here in this shit hole of a 3rd world country where I live.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on March 02, 2021, 11:20:52 PM
Good luck!  I hope it arrives soon and in good shape!
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: RPGPundit on March 10, 2021, 06:55:12 PM
Quote from: Brigman on February 18, 2021, 03:09:04 PM
Christmas came early... or a couple months late... whichever!

(https://i.postimg.cc/3wmdkTjf/Lion-Dragon.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Very stoked to get to reading these!

Fantastic! Thank you very much... be sure to let us all know what you thought about them.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on March 11, 2021, 01:48:27 PM
You're most welcome, Pundit!  Kudos to you for such a high quality product!

I started with Lion & Dragon and am about halfway through.  I have to throw in that I'm really impressed by the art - being an artist, it's often the first thing that grabs me.  So many books have widely-varying styles and quality; this ties together nicely and thematically.

One of the COOL things that struck me was the way it treats magic-using types - Magisters and Clerics.  These aren't just carbon-copied from D&D - they FEEL very different.  The Cleric is more like an AD&D Paladin, I'd say, rather than a walking First-Aid station; and the Magister... he's not hucking fireballs, lightning bolts, and flying around.  From what I've read so far, a lot of his abilities come from study, knowledge, and summoning - just like the mages of myth.  He's got the healing knowledge, and bubbling of potions are right up his alley.

I think there's an underlying theme in the game that your characters are part of a SOCIETY (or a world) - not just random murder-hobos going about in a generic lawless frontier, hacking and looting with no ties to anything bigger than themselves. The fact that even high-level characters are still part of this (and not invulnerable super-heroes that can take on an entire army single-handedly) reinforces and ties this in.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: RPGPundit on March 11, 2021, 08:54:11 PM
That's all totally right. And a big part of the game and how it differs from regular D&D!
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: PFrota on March 15, 2021, 01:47:37 PM
HAH!!! Just got Star Adventurer and the Old School Companion on the mail  ;D

(https://i.postimg.cc/G4hvnFQz/books-books.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G4hvnFQz)

AFAIK my physical L&D / Dark Albion collection is complete! I also got a lot of RPGPundit Presents PDFs (the medieval-authentic bestiary, secret societies, cults of saints, child eaters, etc.)

Now I just have to wait for a miracle / winning lottery ticket to be able to pay for shipping costs for Arrows of Indra, World of the Last Sun, Gnome Murdered and Lords of Olympus and I'll have the complete Pundit collection. I might even buy hardback copies of Dark Albion and L&D too just because I love these books so much!

What kills me is that the shipping cost of Arrows of Indra right now is TWICE the price of the book. And of course it's not either Pundit's or the publisher's fault, it's just part of the joy of being a gamer in a third world country.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: RPGPundit on March 15, 2021, 06:20:39 PM
Quote from: PFrota on March 15, 2021, 01:47:37 PM
HAH!!! Just got Star Adventurer and the Old School Companion on the mail  ;D

(https://i.postimg.cc/G4hvnFQz/books-books.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G4hvnFQz)

AFAIK my physical L&D / Dark Albion collection is complete! I also got a lot of RPGPundit Presents PDFs (the medieval-authentic bestiary, secret societies, cults of saints, child eaters, etc.)

Now I just have to wait for a miracle / winning lottery ticket to be able to pay for shipping costs for Arrows of Indra, World of the Last Sun, Gnome Murdered and Lords of Olympus and I'll have the complete Pundit collection. I might even buy hardback copies of Dark Albion and L&D too just because I love these books so much!

What kills me is that the shipping cost of Arrows of Indra right now is TWICE the price of the book. And of course it's not either Pundit's or the publisher's fault, it's just part of the joy of being a gamer in a third world country.


That's awesome! Well done.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: Brigman on March 15, 2021, 08:31:18 PM
Nice!

Just got my print copy of the Old School Companion a couple days ago.  The PDF was one of the first things from the Pundit I bought, and I regretted... not buying the print + PDF version to begin with.  So, I went back and bought the print version.  In that glorious heyday where we can once again roll dice around a table here, I will want it on hand.
Title: Re: Just arrived from DriveThruRPG... Lion & Dragon, Dark Albion!
Post by: RPGPundit on March 17, 2021, 05:52:40 AM
Quote from: Brigman on March 15, 2021, 08:31:18 PM
Nice!

Just got my print copy of the Old School Companion a couple days ago.  The PDF was one of the first things from the Pundit I bought, and I regretted... not buying the print + PDF version to begin with.  So, I went back and bought the print version.  In that glorious heyday where we can once again roll dice around a table here, I will want it on hand.

Good stuff! Please feel free to write about how you've used it, later.