A Gaming Update: Dragon Age, RuneQuest Bunnies & Burrows, RPG Review #7 and gaming comedy..

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Many people spend the Easter long-weekend travelling to spots in the country, attending sporting events, or just lounging around. I found myself dedicating a lot of time to my favourite pastime, role-playing games.

On Friday I spent a fair bit of time writing up a 78-hour, single-session Dark Space (Rolemaster and Spacemaster horror) game from 1992; it was about time that I wrote this up. Saturday was an epic Dragon Age game, lasting a good 10.5 hours. Despite some claims to the contrary, it is very traditional D&D-like, a sort of wild-west frontier setting, monsters to kill (and take their stuff), dwarves and elves, classes and levels etc. Sunday was our traditional Easter special of Bunnies & Burrows, this time using the original ruleset. For a setting I used our RuneQuest Prax story, specifically Rabbit Hat Farm - trollkin refugees were making too many hats from rabbits! On Monday I finished writing a lengthy article on the mechanics of fear in different roleplaying systems; specifically Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Ravenloft, World of Darkness, GURPS Horror, Kult, Little Fears and Trail of Cthulhu; the latter receiving the highest praise.

I am putting the final touches in place for RPG Review #7, which is a horror-themed issue. You may notice that some of the articles are making their way to an online/html status as well as being distributed as a PDF. The final article, an interview with Russell Bailey of White Wolf, is on its way and after that it will be available. Tonight however I am off to one of two gaming-themed shows for the Melbourne Comedy festival; +1 Sword

Comments

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

I adored Dark Space as a setting years back when a housemate owned a copy. It had a hefty tang of originality to it.

Sadly when my friend moved overseas he elected to keep that sourcebook even though I inherited the bulk of his RM and SM collection. I haven't sourced a copy since. I really should track down a copy, if only for nostalgia.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

You know... I think I have a spare.

And yes, it was an absolutely superb setting. I'd love to run a game or two based on it again.

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

You know... I think I have a spare.

Happy to pay a good price :)
Email me if you're interested.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Will do. Didn't have a chance to check for it last night, and won't have a chance to do so tonight (running a D&D game). But Friday night, for sure!

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Bunnies and Burrows in Rabbit Hat Farm? What a brilliant idea!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

It made particular sense given that one of the PCs in the RuneQuest game is Lord of Rabbit Hat farm. It was a pretty basic scenario, but certainly be expanded to include all the tunnels of the krasht kids etc.

Probably the best part of the crossover aspect was the rabbits eating hazia to go into the spirit world and contact the trollkin shaman...

[rubashov.livejournal.com]

i want to play dragon age.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I don't recommend it. There is very little imagination in the system design and plenty of arbitrary limitations. The world is very much mainstream fantasy. Also, I find the marketing system where the basic set only gives you the rules to play levels 1-5 rather poor value.