Dragonbane: A GM's Perspective 

Do you have the scenario saved? I would love to get me some small scenarios for introduction!

I do indeed. Let’s get together certainly discuss more.

Oh hi@@mr.dragonbane , I've been bingewatching your videos today. Could you share me this small scenario as well please?

Have you ever played Mörk Borg?

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Totally agree I could listen to you reading a phone book because of your voice. ( That reference says a lot about my age... )

@@hnorrstrom You'll find many videos on my channel, that are hopefully more interesting than a phone book. 😉

The Dragonbane rules are more classic. Magic in Dragonbane is more reliable, the fumble table more forgiving, as is the recovery of the Willpower points you need to cast them. The mechanics of Forbidden Lands are more modern and intertwine more elegantly. But there are certain rules that I don't like. Dragonbane feels more solid and more play tested overall. Apart from the dice rolling mechanics, the games are similar, and you can take elements you like from each game and adapt it for the other. The GM tools from Forbidden Lands are excellent, for example, and will work great with Dragonbane.

What bits were censored? I am a degenerate, corrupt human being, so would like to know.

@@perplexedmoth Well, haven't been reading them for long but for being a game for children there would today being some questionable things I guess. Like drugs use like viagra, and of course plenty of alcohol and narcotics. The original rules didn't really have any real nudity in pictures like the Monster books the bestiary books for example with dryads and fairies etc. Showing the melons. There was plenty of cleavage and posing in many books with extra rules and adventures. I mean I didn't mind as a 12 year old boy. Then there were also rules to make a cultist or a slave or a courtesan character. Plenty of racial stuff in the campaign world and man dominated societies, Satanic death cults, and of course brothels in every town described. Something I assume they have totally changed today in today's politically correct society. With that said it wasn't too shock or overexposed like in Kult it was just depictions of a normal society in a fantasy setting sort of...

@@hnorrstrom Thanks. I got Dragonbane last week and started playing it. It feels like the target focus is a bit pre-teens/teens as well as adults. Good to know that the original wasn't just like that. Not sure how Ducks/Mallards ended up in there though (they are one of the reasons I got the game, and it's not too silly). I'm super curious about Kult, especially the original edition, somehow it's hard to come by an original copy (I'm based in Finland at the moment). And I'm generally skeptical of later editions of games.

@@perplexedmothThe mallards has been there since the 80's. Can't say I'm a huge fan of them but as long as people play normally they don't have to be silly, Black pirate ducks and Brown merchant where abundant in many adventures back in the days and we didn't see them as silly back then. I generally agree, older versions are usually more interesting. In the case of Kult I really don't like the Divinity lost rules. The old rules are outdated and are quite similar to Dragonbane but the new ones are really confusing. If I was to Game master Kult I would use rules from Things from the Flood most likely. Or even CoC or the original rules before the new ones. If you by any chance know Swedish, or are interested to just look at them I got Pdf versions of a great deal of original Kult books as well as old DoD.

From what I gather, they are actually borrowing from old Runequest. It seems to me that DSA 2e and 3e were almost Runequest clones. Dragonbane for example, was a Runequest derivate, so the new edition is just building on the old.

wow.

If you gather 10 older players you'll hear 10 different opinions on this ;)

@@DocEonChannel about have many addition off drakar och demoner there is?

@@DocEonChannel but sure I wouldent cointing yje 2016 remake

@@veggo74 The reason it's hard to say is that back in the day, the publisher didn't think in terms of "editions". So there are no official numbers. There's different printings, and in some of them the rules have been more or less tweaked, but how much change is needed to think of something as a new edition? Noone knows.

I might, if this video performs well and gives me an indication of interest in the system. I thought about doing a rules explanation video. But A demo is better idea. Thx!