Unboxing: Dragonbane Core Set – Free League Publishing
November 20, 2023 by avernos
Gerry dives into an unboxing and review of the Dragonbane Roleplaying Game Core Set that you can use to get started with some Fantasy roleplaying with Free League Publishing.
Based on the classic Drakar och Demoner, Dragonbane opens up this awesome roleplaying game to an English audience with a brilliant Core Set absolutely packed with ways to get you started in your roleplaying games.
Get The Dragonbane Core Set
Download The Dragonbane Quickstart Rules
Check Out More Unboxings Here
You'll find pre-made characters, adventures, tokens, accessories, dice and more within the box alongside a great set of rules that focuses on heroic action. It features familiar concepts to D&D but provides you with a different spin on well-known d20 mechanics making it a great alternative to Dungeons & Dragons.
Have you tried out Dragonbane?
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
I just ordered the core box to dive into thanks to your review. 🙂
Here be dragons!
Lovely set packed with roleplaying goodness 🙂
I’ve been running this for my group for the past few months. We’ve tried a lot of different systems over the years and this is definitely one of our recent favorites — it’s just so easy to run, and as Gerry mentions, the prewritten campaign is a huge bonus, for new gamemasters but also for older ones who don’t have a lot of time for prep. Knowing that it’s based on Runequest/Call of Cthulhu has me wanting to revisit those (well, CoC at least) — I can take or leave the fantasy setting so I’d really like to see this… Read more »
I’ve been waiting for a restock of this and last I heard it was due in couple of weeks.
Not planning to run it as fantasy, but the skill names are generic enough for any setting.
Not fond of level based rules and this is very similar to Cthulhu in that regard.
what’s a level based rule?
I mean the likes of d&d and rolemaster. Badly worded on my part. I know dragonbane is skill based and improves in similar manner to Cthulhu.
ah, it threw me because CoC doesn’t have levels everyone starts out average and then eats a bullet before the thing takes their leg off.
Weirdly I prefer the percentile based CoC/Runequest system to the d20 they moved to, I hate d20 based games it just feels like you’re never getting that number, far too swingy a die.
I’ll probably just convert DoD back to CoC’s percentile when I start to run it
Very simple modification really. Multiply by 5 for skill difficulties and instead of increasing by +1 when you do skill improvement just add d10 like they do in current Cthulhu (or d6 as it was in early editions).
On the subject of Dragonbane… been waiting for it come back in stock and when found a copy on Wayland, but they only had 3 copies… 2 after my purchase.