This goes through a complete worked example of making an eldhuð ("I'm totally not a tiefling!") swashbuckler in six quick steps using Delvers to Grow for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
This is the best quick-start recruiting tool for Powered by GURPS published to date.
One of my patrons went to his Favorite Local Game store yesterday with an advanced copy. Ran a *pick-up game* using the Boxed Set for one total newcomer to RPGs, two D&D players, and someone from his regular group. All had characters quickly, and the game store employees asked him to come back and run a Dungeon Fantasy RPG game in the store *every week.*
If you're already following or pledged: Thank you. If not...this is an amazing book. Most people can make characters in 10-15 minutes. It supports zero-to-hero play starting at 62 points. And it features an adventure tuned to the 125-point characters written by Peter Dell'Orto and Marshall LaPira.
This is an incredible tool to draw people into the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. Please spread the word!
Announcing: Delvers to Grow for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 08:59:29 PM
Even the mightiest delver started somewhere. An apprentice, a squire or man-at-arms, a backup singer with The Backstreet Bards. Delvers to Grow allows you to take the part of those starting characters, supporting starting play as low as 62 points.
Further, it provides pre-built modules and packages enabling a player to create a capable, playable character in minutes.
Get gaming. Fast.
Fully compatible with the professional template system in Dungeon Fantasy Adventurers, Delvers to Grow lets you start much earlier in the hero’s journey, letting both players and GMs ease into the full breadth of capability that the professional delvers of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG bring to the table.
Explore different challenges or use the modules to effortlessly assemble henchmen…or create a starting character to replace the dearly departed.
Roll and Shout with Delvers to Grow.
Gaming Ballistic is pleased to announce the next set of products in support of Steve Jackson Games’ Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
Additional volumes which will release simultaneously with the primary Delvers-to-Grow book include worked examples at around 65, 125, and 185 points for multiple archetypes of delver.
Each volume tackles one archetype:
The Strong Heroes that are barbarians, holy warriors, knights, and wrestlers
The Fast Heroes that are martial artists, scouts, swashbucklers, and thieves
The Smart Heroes that are bards, clerics, druids, and wizards
These books feature pre-built and easy-to-assemble “modules” of abilities that can be used to quickly – very quickly – create characters from as little as 37 points (the base 62-point template and a 25-point disadvantage module) to the stock 250-point templates…or beyond.
Perfect for new players and GMs for whom challenging the full range of capabilities of a 250-point “starting” delver seems overwhelming, or a group that wants to see their characters grow from humble beginnings.
Future work from GB will support encounters, adventures, and other playable material at this point level, but that hasn’t been developed or contracted yet.
Look for Delvers to Grow to enter a crowdfunding phase somewhere between late April and mid-May.
Work in Progress Cover. Art by Dean Spencer.
Pre-orders and Backerkit Phase has started for Nordlond Sagas
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 04:20:14 PM
The Nordlond Sagas crowfunding campaign has entered into its next phase. Having surpassed the funding goal, we’re now collecting shipping and “add-on” items for those that pledged.
But there are also many that didn’t, some for bad timing, some because of the Kickstarter labor dispute, or other reasons. No worries: we’ve got you covered. “Pre-Orders” for individual books and bundles similar to those from the campaign are available on Backerkit. If you want to pick and choose what books you get, or just missed the campaign the first time around . . . now is the time to come by!
Nordvorn is complete. What's next?
over 4 years ago
– Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:31:24 PM
Shipping of All Rewards Complete
This past weekend, the very last item - a shield and sword for a backer who requested a purposeful delay in shipping in order to be home when it arrived - was mailed out.
As far as I know, this means 100% of all promised rewards for this campaign have been sent out.
Thanks for coming with me on this journey.
Up Now, Up Next
As most of you know, we launched and funded four more Nordlond books from Sept 10 through Oct 12. This funded in the first week, suffered through horrid doldrums until campaign close, and then we got a bit of a spike at the end.
I made a lot of progress in moving through the Backerkit tedium to get the pre-order store open for the books in the Nordlond Sagas campaign. That's always painful, as it's excruciatingly manual. International shipping also goes nowhere but up these days. It's only a pass-through, but it's still unwelcome.
I anticipate having the store open on Oct 27, so if you missed the campaign, you can get the books you want then. I'm going to try and arrange it so there's no differentiation between pre-order backers and Kickstarter backers in terms of pricing and shipping. That's not always easy.
In the future, I'm giving a very hard think to what kind, and how much, Dungeon Fantasy RPG content to offer. The strongest feedback thus far has been "great stuff, but so much of it...can't digest!" That's fair! But it's also not something I can run a self-sustaining business off of.
So I'll be doing a few things.
Nordlond Bestiary. You guys probably know I got pre-approval for the Nordlondr Ovinabokin, or "The Nordlond Enemies Book." This is what we've all been poking for for a long time: an explicit conversion of a giant list of monsters to the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. The original draft of "The Book of Foes," from my DnD5e-based "Dragon Heresy" RPG spanned 130,000 words, including stat blocks, and had 200-250 creatures. My aim in 2020 is to bring the full draft over into the Dungeon Fantasy RPG space, only skipping creatures that are already in the Monsters boxed set, unless new "fluff text" is required. Obviously, you can skip the fluff - which is all based on the Nordlond setting - and just use the stats in any fantasy game, and frankly, in a Monster Hunters or similar critter-filled campaign world as well. This will not be a cheap book to produce, but I'm going to go all out on it. I hope you join me.
A Few Small Projects. I may release some focused products. Perhaps a Trevinur (Druids) book. Maybe a 5-room dungeon or two. But other than the big dog above (the Bestiary), my production of Dungeon Fantasy RPG material on Kickstarter will be more constrained.
Finish my TFT Commits. I have standing permission to bring three new TFT GM'd adventures, and up to two solos, to life from the same authors that brought you the "Four" Perilous Journeys that resulted in five new TFT books, NPC/Monster Cards, and some die-cut counters. This will be the first project launched after Nordlond Sagas completes.
New Approach to Crowdfunding. As a small business with no real post-crowdfunding income stream, my ability to source new works is really constrained more by the crowdfunding platform than by my ability to produce material. The usual "crowdfund, wait for funds to settle, post-funding phase" cycle is two full months long. Policy (and not a bad policy at that) is to not allow a new project to launch until the old ones are done. That limits campaigns to three or four a year. So I'm going to try something new with funding individual projects on a "first past the post" basis using my website and a crowdfunding app. I'll try it with a small project first, and if it works out OK, see what that looks like. I do know the current model is unsatisfactory to both me and to those who have spoken up and given feedback, so I want to try something new.
New Product Lines. There are a few projects that I want to bring to life. One is an entirely new RPG. The other is a quiet discussion with another writer whose work I'd love to see print but a lot has to happen before that. More on this later; they're second half of 2020 at best.
Parting Shot
In any case: this brings The Citadel at Nordvorn to a formal close. Thanks, and I hope to see you around on other Gaming Ballistic projects in the future!
Dungeon Grappling update
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 07:15:01 PM
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