Dungeons: The Dragoning

[Rettu Skcollob]

An hour ago, I stumbled across what may be the greatest roleplaying system of all time; a homebrewed system which came out of 4chan's /tg/ board. Dungeons: The Dragoning is a balls-to-the-wall crazy system which is essentially a chimera of D&D, WoD and 40K, jam packed with references and asides to practically every aspect of traditional gaming there is.

You can find the PDF here.

It's Rifts 2.0 if it was written in the fever dreams of some kind of neckbeard deity, and that? That is awesome. I am actually seriously considering running this, and it's exploding on /tg/ at this very moment. I recommend downloading it and at least giving it a read.

[Curious]

Oh my god. Do want.

[Teln]

Less than 24 hours old, and it's already a google autocomplete.

[Curious]

Less than 24 hours old, and it's already a google autocomplete.

Thus spake 4chan.

[Teln]

Spells can backfire. SPELLS CAN BACKFIRE!

[Rettu Skcollob]

Less than 24 hours old, and it's already a google autocomplete.

It's also rocketed up to 100 votes on the suptg archive in a matter of hours, putting it up there with the best archived threads ever. (For comparison, 20 votes or more is the highest rating a thread can have, IE 'Epic' rating.)

[Teln]

I know, I'm a fa/tg/uy myself. Matter of fact, I've been keeping an eye on this all night, when I've got a term paper I should be writing. It's a quarter past 5 and I'm still awake.

[wiimanclassic]

So question, is this grid based or something? If not would it work for a play by post? The only system we use is another homebrewed one and works well but the guys might want some variety.

[Morph Bark]

The title made me suspect the content, but I could have never dreamt 40K to be a part of it.

Gonna dl it to see what it's like, but got a game in 30 minutes, so not much chance yet.

EDIT: If anyone is going to run a PbP game based on this, PM me.

[big teej]

I've gotta get ready for work soon, so I can't browse that now, but I will soon

I am intrigued

-reserves slot for potential pbp-

[Emperor Ing]

Great. Here I am trying to learn Dark Heresy, now there's a whole new RPG system I wanna learn.
Eh, I got time, and I DL'd the pdf.

[ScionoftheVoid]

I don't know why they seem to use My Little Pony as a contrast to manliness, but that's my only complaint up to page 9. Looks to be a hilarious read.

[Sarco_Phage]

I don't know why they seem to use My Little Pony as a contrast to manliness, but that's my only complaint up to page 9. Looks to be a hilarious read.

Because dude, MLP is BRIGHTLY COLORED, not GRIMDARK AND TESTICULAR.

It's a parody book, man, don't sweat it too much. Besides, MLP catches a LOT of hate on /tg/ and /co/ even since before the great aponylypse or whatever they're calling it. That was a true example of powerspamming.

[Jarian]

Why is this not completely terrible? I was all set to make fun of it, but everything I've read so far makes WotC look like a bunch of incompetent ten year olds publishing an RPG by contrast. And this is a parody?

Brain = asploded.

[Sarco_Phage]

Why is this not completely terrible? I was all set to make fun of it, but everything I've read so far makes WotC look like a bunch of incompetent ten year olds publishing an RPG by contrast. And this is a parody?

Brain = asploded.

Hell, it makes GW's official product look both tame AND ill-made.

[Lord Raziere]

this is interesting enough for me to actually investigate.

its a little weird......but I might actually try it. the exaltation, race and class thing opens up a lot of combinations....

[Teln]

It has a website now: http://lawfulnice.blogspot.com/

[ScionoftheVoid]

Because dude, MLP is BRIGHTLY COLORED, not GRIMDARK AND TESTICULAR.

It's a parody book, man, don't sweat it too much. Besides, MLP catches a LOT of hate on /tg/ and /co/ even since before the great aponylypse or whatever they're calling it. That was a true example of powerspamming.

Oh, I know. I just wanted to point out that Fluttershy is more badass than the vast majority of Commissars, so it seemed an odd choice to anyone familiar with the show (FiM, of course, not the earlier incarnations). It wasn't supposed to be a serious complaint.

In any case, the system looks entertaining, interesting and adaptable. I'll have to finish it tomorrow, though. Just started chapter 8: Magic.

[SurlySeraph]

I'm up to page 200 so far, and yet it somehow inexplicably continues to be awesome. I mean, a few things are unclear or poorly worded; there are places where he apparently changed what the word for something was but forgot to change it everywhere (say, anima and arcana for Atlanteans); there are a couple spots of obvious imbalance (Zenith Caste vs Twilight Caste); and there are a couple "I would have done this differently" bits (like making attacks of opportunity a special once-per-round free action instead of a reaction action), but overall it looks excellent.

It looks pretty open to modifying how things work. For ecample, you could easily have a low-power game by making characters without Exaltations and using the one-level classes.

And even if it wasn't so well-written, I'd still have to love it for the lines like "Paragons are perhaps the most subtle of all Exalts. They don't have blatant supernatural abilities. They can't change shape or kill people with special mind bullets (just the same mind bullets as anyone else)."

[Ampris]

Oh, I know. I just wanted to point out that Fluttershy is more badass than the vast majority of Commissars, so it seemed an odd choice to anyone familiar with the show (FiM, of course, not the earlier incarnations). It wasn't supposed to be a serious complaint.

In any case, the system looks entertaining, interesting and adaptable. I'll have to finish it tomorrow, though. Just started chapter 8: Magic.

Hey,

Playtester and IRL friend of the creator here! There has actually been enough of a demand that Lawfulnice will be adding a MLP inspired race to an upcoming splatbook.

If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding DtD, please let me know!

[Icedaemon]

I skimmed it a bit. Nice. I am confused though: Does 'paragon' not have a list of things to spend action points on, or did I just end up with a damaged download?

[Ampris]

I skimmed it a bit. Nice. I am confused though: Does 'paragon' not have a list of things to spend action points on, or did I just end up with a damaged download?

A Paragon can spend Action Points in the same way anyone else can spend resource points. It is true that it doesn't have a scaling list of abilities from higher levels in Pressure. They just have a larger and larger pool of Pressure Points to spend to directly modify rolls.

[Teln]

So the Paragon has a First Excellency. I like it.

[Morph Bark]

Hey,

Playtester and IRL friend of the creator here! There has actually been enough of a demand that Lawfulnice will be adding a MLP inspired race to an upcoming splatbook.

If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding DtD, please let me know!

Well, considering it is a mash-up of three big tabeltop gigs, one can only wonder if more will be brought in or otherwise be statted up in DtD. Like Cthulhu for example.

A MLP race sounds interesting... I don't suppose we may know other races that are going to be upcoming? (Especially odd ones out like MLP in this case, since ponies don't have hands and all.)

[Ampris]

Well, considering it is a mash-up of three big tabeltop gigs, one can only wonder if more will be brought in or otherwise be statted up in DtD. Like Cthulhu for example.

A MLP race sounds interesting... I don't suppose we may know other races that are going to be upcoming? (Especially odd ones out like MLP in this case, since ponies don't have hands and all.)

Just 3 smashups you say?

Please take a moment to examine the books cover if you will! DnD, 40k, 7th sea, and Vampire are all there! He also used things L5R, Exalted, and a few other RPGs along with a touch of homebrew to keep it all happy and balanced! =D

And we aren't sure on further races right now. Since he just released it yesterday hes gotten swamped with suggestions (everything from MLP to blood-magic to weapons and cybernetics requests!).

I can tell you there will shortly be a new version with bookmarks and fewer typos along with optional point-buy rules for character creation. :)

[RaginChangeling]

Just 3 smashups you say?

Please take a moment to examine the books cover if you will! DnD, 40k, 7th sea, and Vampire are all there! He also used things L5R, Exalted, and a few other RPGs along with a touch of homebrew to keep it all happy and balanced! =D

And we aren't sure on further races right now. Since he just released it yesterday hes gotten swamped with suggestions (everything from MLP to blood-magic to weapons and cybernetics requests!).

I can tell you there will shortly be a new version with bookmarks and fewer typos along with optional point-buy rules for character creation. :)

Not to mention at least two of the races have their entire fluff ripped straight from Mass Effect and one from the Hobbit. I missed about half the references in the book, but those were pretty hilarious. Give the man some kudos.

[Ampris]

Give the man some kudos.

Will do, he's still recovering from the initial shock of how well DtD was received haha

[Mushroom Ninja]

I really want to play this system now...

[ninja_penguin]

I saw this in passing on /tg/, originally assumed it was just nonsense.

But this? This?


This is quite possibly one of the most beautiful train wrecks of several systems I've ever seen. And it gives me a reason to use the Roll and Keep system without having to try and pull teeth to get my group to play L5R again.

[Rettu Skcollob]

I think that the consensus is clear here: Someone must run a game in this system. And it will be AWESOME. Don't look at me; I'm already DM'ing several O=