The Dungeon Fantasy RPG for GURPS has arrived.

estar · September 16, 2017, 04:58:12 PM

Just got my copy of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy today.
The Blog Post.
Showing the things I got

Next the content of the DF RPG box itself

Cardboard Heroes and Maps

The Books, bases, and dice

Overall I feel I got the value for the money I spent. In terms of what the contents offers the closest RPGs in terms of coverage and complexity would be Runequest 6/Mythras. This is truly a complete RPG based on GURPS. The biggest issue I have is the 250 point starting points which invariably makes the character have a lot of stuff that they can do. But because of the DF RPGs it is not any more onerous than what Pathfinder and D&D 3.5 people do to look up feats and spells.

Skarg · September 16, 2017, 11:26:39 PM

Any reason not to just use 100-point starting characters as per ancient tradition, or whatever the GM wants? Any peculiar ensuing complications of doing so?

jcfiala · September 17, 2017, 12:09:54 AM

Quote from: Skarg;993092Any reason not to just use 100-point starting characters as per ancient tradition, or whatever the GM wants? Any peculiar ensuing complications of doing so?

Well, there's the goblin population explosion from them eating well off of the corpses of dead starting adventurers, but as the GM I don't see a problem with that. Goblin's gotta eat something!

(I haven't gotten my copy yet, so I don't have a non-joking answer.)

Larsdangly · September 18, 2017, 11:49:09 AM

I'm surprised how quiet this thread is; is there not more interest in this? I ordered it but have been out of town so I haven't had a chance to look at it.

jcfiala · September 18, 2017, 11:54:38 AM

Quote from: Larsdangly;993462I'm surprised how quiet this thread is; is there not more interest in this? I ordered it but have been out of town so I haven't had a chance to look at it.

There's some discussion on it on the big purple, but I haven't gotten my copy yet - supposed to arrive today - and so don't have much to say. I'm hearing good things so far.

But, y'know, GURPS has been becoming less popular over time as SJG has concentrated on more profitable ventures, and although this is probably intended to help reverse that trend, it still hasn't really hit. If my wife wasn't in the hospital *again* I'd probably be interested in trying out a campaign.

Dumarest · September 18, 2017, 12:29:52 PM

Quote from: Larsdangly;993462I'm surprised how quiet this thread is; is there not more interest in this? I ordered it but have been out of town so I haven't had a chance to look at it.

Speaking just for myself, I already have 3rd edition GURPs and a bunch of sourcebooks for it and see no reason to buy a game I already own, plus I'm not that into fantasy games anyway. I guess it's good to make a GURPS already set up for fantasy games so someone can play it right out of the starting gate. If I didn't already own GURPS and were into fantasy, I might be interested.

jeff37923 · September 18, 2017, 12:54:08 PM

I'm interested in reading some actual play reports, but I have my hands full with what I am doing already.

Philotomy Jurament · September 18, 2017, 01:08:12 PM

Quote from: Larsdangly;993462I'm surprised how quiet this thread is; is there not more interest in this?

My take is that this (i.e. dungeon crawl game) isn't the kind of thing I look for from a system like GURPS. YMMV.

estar · September 18, 2017, 01:56:02 PM

In terms of what it covers it is comparable to Mythras/Runequest 6. In addition like OD&D itself it not limited to dungeon crawls.

estar · September 18, 2017, 02:02:09 PM

Quote from: jeff37923;993520I'm interested in reading some actual play reports, but I have my hands full with what I am doing already.

jeff37923 · September 18, 2017, 02:09:51 PM

Quote from: estar;993551I will be doing something later this fall. But here are some actual play accounts.

A one off
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2013/05/some-excellent-memorial-day-gaming-at.html

The first three session of a GURPS campaign.
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2012/08/gurps-majestic-wilderlands-campaign.html

A more general overview of how the above campaign went.
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-sandbox-campaign-nomar-campaign-part-1.html
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-sandbox-campaign-nomar-campaign-part-2.html

The DF RPG is just GURPS with anything not needed for D&D style Fantasy cut out of it.

Oh the one time I tried to live blog an adventure on Twitter (using GURPS)
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/07/gurps-and-twitter.html
https://twitter.com/robertsconley

Extra stuff

The Basics of GURPS
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2010/06/basics-of-gurps.html
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-on-gurps.html

An example of combat
http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2010/06/basic-gurps-combat.html

Cool, thanks! I've got to get ready for work or I'd be diving into these now.

Ulairi · September 18, 2017, 02:48:26 PM

Quote from: Larsdangly;993462I'm surprised how quiet this thread is; is there not more interest in this? I ordered it but have been out of town so I haven't had a chance to look at it.

I think we'll see some more activity as folks start to get it and play it. SJ Games would have had a lot more noise if they could have had the box out in time for Origins and GenCon.

3rik · September 18, 2017, 03:09:58 PM

So, this is playable out of the box? I mean, you don't need the GURPS core rules?

jcfiala · September 18, 2017, 03:16:27 PM

Quote from: 3rik;993573So, this is playable out of the box? I mean, you don't need the GURPS core rules?

Correct. It's a complete game in the box.

3rik · September 18, 2017, 03:17:18 PM

Quote from: jcfiala;993575Correct. It's a complete game in the box.

And is it more or less complex/involved than GURPS?