Dragon Warriors Week Day Seven
……AAaaaaaaaand here we are at the end of Dragon Warriors Week. We’ve looked at how it handles combat and what made this wonderful, dinky role-playing game so unique. We’ve looked at it’s monsters, it’s magic, it’s maps and it’s puzzles - and we’ve barely scratched the surface of the game.
I’m going to leave you on this last day of Dragon Warriors Week with a list of just some of the things I’ve not covered. Any one of them is a terrific reason to download the game and take it for a spin. Go on. You know you want to.
- Assassins as a base class, complete with player usable Poison rules. Oh yes. They’re the Dragon Warriors uber-class, and work best in solo one-on-one sessions. Y’know – that thing that’s….. uhhh….. difficult in 4e.
- Eighteen complete adventures. Yes, 18, and most are playable in a single session. That’s at least one ready-to-run game session (if you play once a week) for over four months.
- Elementalists – including Darkness Elementalists
- Steath and Perception rules that work, just like in 4e D&D. 23 years ahead of time.
- Warlocks. Also 23 years ahead of time. Assassins + Darkness Elementalist + Warlocks = Dragon Warriors isn’t afraid of evil (or at least morally unconscious) characters
- The Grey Hood, Blue Men, Black Riders and White Ladies!
- Bloodrage!
- Kraken worship!
- Nightmare Huts! Pirates! Wreckers! Curses! Diseases!
- Fang Warriors straight out of Jason and the Argonauts!
- Spider Magic!
- THE Temple of Balor! Not just “A” temple, but “THE” Temple!
- The Isle of Albion!
- Crime and punishment rules including percentage chances to bribe a judge.
- Jousting rules!
- ……and much, much more.
Have you geekgasmed yet? I have.
Dragon Warriors is a classic role-playing game released in 1985 as 6 trade paperback books. It is now available for free download. Happy Dragon Warriors Week!
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about 2 years ago
This is all pretty awesome. I wouldn’t mind at all if you continued to post on Dragon Warriors.
about 2 years ago
Thanks :)
I’m pretty sure I’ll continue to keep plugging Dragon Warriors, never fear.
about 2 years ago
I’ve just downloaded mine!
Questing GMs last blog post..Tiny Adventures TPK!
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about 1 year ago
O wow! I LOVE Dragon Warriors. I was an avid GM of the German The Dark Eye rpg (which has similarities), but the system grew into a monstrous absurdity. DW is perfect for me; PLEASE write more about it.
Norbert
P.S.
Recently, I found the first three books on ebay and bought them. Beauty!
about 1 year ago
It’s good to meet another fan!
And I’m sure that I’ll be writing about Dragon Warriors again; it’s just too good a system to ignore :D
about 9 months ago
The website that teh download is linked to has re-organized, and now the link is dead. Also, I can’t find the game on their new site. Could someone please post a new link?
about 9 months ago
The microsite for the new edition of Dragon Warriors is here: http://www.magnumopuspress.com/?page_id=10
and you can download a free 16-page introduction to the game, as well as the first issue of the fan-produced Ordo Draconis fanzine, from DriveThruRPG: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=2630&filters=0_0_0_0_0