Dungeon layers
| Dungeonslayers An old-fashioned role-playing game |
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| Author (s) | Christian Kennig |
| Original publisher | Uhrwerk Verlag |
| Original publication | 2010 (previously as download) |
| original language | German |
| World and system | |
| genre | Fantasy , hack and slay |
| Game world | Caera |
| cube | W20 |
Dungeonslayers (short: DS, subtitle: "An old-fashioned RPG") is a free pen & paper RPG that was published in 2008 by Christian Kennig. The focus is on dungeon crawling in a classic fantasy setting , but - as the author repeatedly emphasizes - other, more serious scenarios can also be played. Dungeonslayers is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 license.
history
Dungeonslayers has existed since 2008 and, according to Kennig, was developed for his game group within a few days. The game spread - also thanks to various additions such as finished, one-sided adventures (Dungeon 2 go - D2G) - very quickly on the Internet and was translated into several languages.
The fourth version appeared in 2010, this time initially only in printed form from Uhrwerk Verlag . The usual PDF version has also existed since December 8, 2010. The set of rules grew from 20 pages A4 to 168 pages in A5 format, and above all talent and magic lists were expanded. Dungeonslayers 4 also contains a brief introduction to the Caera game world.
After the first edition was sold out, the second edition has been sold as a box since March 2011. In the meantime, some adventure books are also being sold by Uhrwerk-Verlag.
Characters
Characters consist of 9 basic values (3 attributes and 6 properties), from which values such as life force, defense, hitting and shooting are calculated. There are no random factors in character creation.
By default, characters belong to one of the races of humans , dwarves or elves and have one of the classes warrior, scout or spellcaster, whereby a spellcaster can be a healer, wizard or black magician. Later in the game there are hero classes such as the paladin .
Game mechanics
Essentially, there is only one game mechanism in Dungeonslayers, the W20 trial. A certain sample value must be diced on a twenty-sided die (so-called D20 ) or reached precisely. This mechanism is used for normal actions outside of combat as well as for attacks, etc. The value rolled is also the damage caused.
It is noteworthy that the world of dungeonslayers lacks the concept of magic points. Instead, the spells only ever have a certain cooldown. This enables z. B. Healers continuously heal without using up a supply of magic points.
variants
A sci-fi offshoot called Star-Slayers has been playable since 2015 and takes players into an unknown galaxy
A post-apocalyptic system based on the DS-System called Gammaslayers was released in August 2013.
CaveSlayers, a port of the system to Stone Age people, has been available since 2019.
In addition, numerous other modifications are freely available, such as an alternative magic system that uses mana points.
Web links
- Official website
- Interview with Christian Kennig, author
- Review of DS4
- Mention in SPIEGEL
- First fireside chat with Greifenklaue
- Second fireside chat with Greifenklaue
Individual evidence
- ↑ gammaslayers.de ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.dungeonslayers.net/2019/01/06/ab-in-die-steinzeit-caveslayers-ist-da/
