Roll Some Dice

After much delay, brought on by nothing in particular, my D&D -ish hack of Danger Patrol is finally available for download . You'll need Danger Patrol to play, though; I converted everything I wanted to convert, but I didn't go through the effort of rewriting the whole thing, so the zip file doesn't have, for example, a list of Threat Moves, which is something you're going to want to have. Also, on the advice of counsel, it's now called Dangers & Dragons . Let the word go forth!

(This covers the non-FATE games, which was almost all of them; for FATE coverage, see  Spirit of the Blank .) A week late -- typical! -- but here's the stink from last weekend at  Gamex . Friday Afternoon I'd been hearing a bit here and there about  Vicious Crucible , one of (apparently) a couple new games from  Josh Roby  and  Ryan Macklin , so when I saw it on the schedule I knew I'd be signing up for it. I knew nothing of the system, other than it sounded like it was intended to drive a number of specific scenarios, or at least use them as introductions to various mechanical add-ons the like. The scenario we played was The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley, and essentially involved a long-simmering dust-up between European-style imperialists and native barbarian-types in a fantasy-medievalish world. (There was magic, and some monstrous things, but those things were mostly there to exacerbate the political situation.) I played a half-breed scout who'...

This year's Gamex is in a couple days up in LA, and I'm running a hack of a game I've never run or played in its original form: Danger Patrol . My version's all D&D'ed up, because that's what I tend to like to do with cool little indie games like that. The Styles and Roles of  Danger Patrol map so easily to D&D tropes as Cultures and Classes that it was tough to resist hacking it, despite my lack of first-hand experience with the game. So here are a few Culture/Class combinations, along with a list of the "heroic" actions normally attributed to the various Classes. Class Actions Orc/Fighter Easterner/Magic-User Halfling/Cleric If all goes well Saturday night, I'll post the whole hack online. (Personally, I think it's going to go pretty well. These things usually do.)