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Simon Burley
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Created/co-authored Golden Heroes (its in Wikipedia - look it up). Write/publishes various other TTRPGs on a laptop in his bedroom. Currently on a gaming hiatus and going cold turkey on my TTRPG convention addiction.
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Iā€™m pretty certain you can. Iā€™ll reserve judgement until we see the tables in the full game.

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By Kate Hatos

Four panel cartoon showing b&b, D&D, D&b (breakfast in a dungeon) and b&d (in bed with a dragon)
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(12) the pregens are a zombie, an igor, a troll, a dwarf and a gargoyle. Feels to be lacking subtlety to me. Pantomime. Well produced. Workable. I could run this scenario at a con - it would be hard work without the right players. Iā€™m not sure the full game will have replay value. (Iā€™m done now.)

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(10) thereā€™s a nice bit of advice about Discworld being satire and not comedy. But the starter is clearly a full sugar loss leader to get you hooked. (11) the scenario is a bit over-wrought. Junior watchmen investigating a break in at the home for swamp dragons.

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Itā€™s a framework for improvised collaborative story-telling. It feels like an upgrade of www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... with a Discworld reskin. (9) as I say there may be more in the full book. what that could be apart from advice & tables of 100s of suggested traits/consequences I canā€™t see.

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A game for children who love adventures The best stories are the ones you make up with your children. Thatā€™s the thought behind Amazing Tales, a story making game of roleplay and imagination for chil...

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It ALLOWS you to play in Discworld but doesnā€™t ENABLE you to. It relies entirely on the Ref and players. Itā€™s a (good) framework for improvised collaborative story-telling but if you donā€™t bring knowledge and the spirit of discworld to the table nothing in the game play will give you that.

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(6) this is just a quick start so there must be more in a rulebook. D20s and d100 are not used here but will be used to roll on tables in the rulebook (hopeful). (7) good illos, engagingly written. Good footnotes. (8) butā€¦ IMHO itā€™s too thin. Pass/fail make up your own outcomes.

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Fail: consequence - fall in cistern. Trait - covered in something very mentionable. (5) thereā€™s teeny tiny meta currency (luck) which allows rerolls Thatā€™s it basically. Thatā€™s all the system. (More to come changing busesā€¦..)

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(4) the system is - use trait to decribe what youā€™re gonna do. Ref tells you to roll d4, D6, D10 or d12 dependingā€¦.. Ref rolls d8. You roll below ref you get a consequence and trait both described by Ref. ā€œI use my origin as a Troll to climb the wall.ā€ (Roll a D4).

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(2) itā€™s a 180 degree turn from the GURPS system - which was probably the poorest fit of game to IP ever. (God knows how Phil pulled off that miracle.) (3) itā€™s gone all ā€œnarrativeā€ now with traits and consequences and no numbers on the character sheets. (Well, everyone has 4 luck points.)

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Simon Burley
@squadronuk.bsky.social
Created/co-authored Golden Heroes (its in Wikipedia - look it up). Write/publishes various other TTRPGs on a laptop in his bedroom. Currently on a gaming hiatus and going cold turkey on my TTRPG convention addiction.
121 followers117 following611 posts