Dungeon World Project {For Using With The Pendraken 10mm Fantasy Miniatures}

[sixsideddice]

What kind of a place do you see Dungeon World being set in?

How about:

A pre industrialised pseudo Elizabethan/pre-English Civil War system of (imaginary) Free City States? Independent Islands of civilization, surrounded by a sea of wild and savage Marcher Lords, Dwimlin tribes (Goblins and Orcs) and Land Pirates, unruly Barons and lawless Oldlanders (Scots and Irish); all feuding over a land once flourishing with structured trade and commerce across the seas to other distant places; all this before the Romani (who stayed a lot longer than they did in the `real` history we know) departed for their own shores and threw Britannia back into a second Dark Age.


Maybe there is a Britannic King... still paying homage to the distant Romani and the `New Religion` which is rapidly spreading throughout the known world? But he`d have his job cut out convincing the rest of his green, blood-soaked, and oh so unpleasant land, that they really should toe the line?

The idea of mixing swords and spears, arquebus and primative cannon, Renaissance mercenary bands and Late Medieval (Agincourt) knights in armour; pitted against more primative Viking warriors and fantastical humanoid nations... is something I could really get hooked on? Besides, what an unusual setting for role playing and of course, the good old Dungeon crawl.

Might even be able to do a dungeon quest in search of the Holy Grail, woohoo.

Please, I`d be very interested in hearing your thoughts?


*whispers* Pssssst! the more we give Pendraken to think about, the more likely we are of getting a few special commission sculpts for this unique world. Here`s an opportunity to be first in line to contribute to a brand new fantasy (with a historical base) campaign world â€" or am I dreaming again. Someone wake me up Mummy *wink*


At this stage I can safely say that the next Dungeon World Campaign and mass battle rules I`m working away on will be “loosely” set in a quasi-Renaissance world (with plenty of undefined scope to ignore this aspect totally, instead allowing gamers and Pendraken collectors to concentrate on satellite regions of their own choosing, if they prefer).

However, I decided to `go for` an Elizabethan/ English Civil War feel for several reasons. (1) It’s a bit unusual and different; allowing the gamers to delve into real life history to glean ideas and inspiration from a pretty vast era of history, from the Tudors and Stuarts, through to the Jacobite and Continental wars... allowing Draken Masters (Game World Hosts) to read up on Late Medieval, Elizabethan and Civil War life and conditions: adding as much atmosphere into the pot as they see fit within their own world mythos and structure.

(2) By combining adjacent periods in this way it will allow the collector and gamer to use a wider variety of miniatures which they can use to set the tone of the whole thing.

(3) The visual appeal is enormous, and should inspire even the most conservative player â€" allowing personal miniature collections to be `bought in` to friendly games between friends at any time. Gamers who normally play Renaissance, Conquistador, English Civil War, etc will be able to lock heads against hard core Fantasy gamers in virtually any setting.

Due to a heavy workload over the coming months, and a true desire to see this next supplement to the Dungeon World mythos made available to all, I have decided not to put the whole thing into book form as I originally intended, but instead will present the finished product to Leon to convert into a PDF for everyone to enjoy â€" all it will cost you is the price of the ink to print it all out *wink*

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[Pruneau]

That sounds like an excellent idea.  There are already many RPG's struggling for room in the "traditional fantasy" arena, and this would be a setting that allows a multitude of playing styles, including (very) late medieval fantasy, swashbucklers, historic horror, but also piracy, exploring the colonies, unknown worlds...  The availability of actual historic information is also a plus, the tedious fleshing out of a fantasy world is avoided, and there is a general knowledge that even non-players possess.

Before we played Runequest we have played Chivalry and Sorcery for a few years, and in that game we adopted a medieval world (there were no fantasy worlds except for the D&D one, which I disliked from the outset) and based our adventurers in 15th century Antwerp.  I recently found the old box back (it's 30+ years ago), including books and cards from the age, and we had historic maps of Antwerp and Flanders, the port of Damme (now gone), and also old handdrawn maps of Wales and Ireland, because the place names over there were better than anything you can find in 'real' fantasy worlds.  We had witch hunts, quacks with leeches instead of healers, wise women, it was a lot like Blackadder 1 actually 

[sixsideddice]

That sounds like an excellent idea.  There are already many RPG's struggling for room in the "traditional fantasy" arena, and this would be a setting that allows a multitude of playing styles, including (very) late medieval fantasy, swashbucklers, historic horror, but also piracy, exploring the colonies, unknown worlds...  The availability of actual historic information is also a plus, the tedious fleshing out of a fantasy world is avoided, and there is a general knowledge that even non-players possess.......


You got it in one Pruneau    The scope is absolutely massive.

[nikharwood]

Sounds good to me - because of the different 'feel' [and the fact that I'll have another use for my ECW armies] 

[sixsideddice]

I`m flying along with the creation of "Dungeon World - Campaigns" (running title for the moment). Here are a few of my latest painting endeavours. I`m running a blog for personal enjoyment, and because its easier for me to share my collection in this way at the moment. God, I have a lot of lead still to get through... but its all good fun  

http://stephen2011wargames.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=8

[Pruneau]

Nice blog, following

[Steve J]

This morning just had a quick look at the pdf rules and from first glance they look nice, simple and fun, which works for me . So now I need to add this to my 'future purchases' list as it looks perfect for small games when you don't have the time, space or energy to set up a big game.

Steve J.

[sixsideddice]

This morning just had a quick look at the pdf rules and from first glance they look nice, simple and fun, which works for me . So now I need to add this to my 'future purchases' list as it looks perfect for small games when you don't have the time, space or energy to set up a big game.

Steve J.


.... and with the new battle rules coming out soon, you`ll have the choice between playing dungeon style games, table top skirmish games, or full scale battles  

[Steve J]

I'll look forward to seeing the rules for bigger battles .

[Maenoferren]

Basically - roleplay more than wargame now. I am getting rid of all my 28mm and changing it to 1omm. We use savage worlds on the whole, hellfrost setting is a good one from TAG. We have also done stuff using wordplay.
Some good ideas their six.
Thinking about some of the games we have played. Norse mythology, but mixed in with wierd world war II.  Haven't got round to buying the dungeon yet, simply because I have so many hirst art blocks made I an torn between making my own and using the money saved to buy a couple of samurai army.

[sixsideddice]

Basically - roleplay more than wargame now. I am getting rid of all my 28mm and changing it to 1omm. We use savage worlds on the whole, hellfrost setting is a good one from TAG. We have also done stuff using wordplay.
Some good ideas their six.
Thinking about some of the games we have played. Norse mythology, but mixed in with wierd world war II.  Haven't got round to buying the dungeon yet, simply because I have so many hirst art blocks made I an torn between making my own and using the money saved to buy a couple of samurai army.

I like your ideas Maenoferren, role play combined with wargaming is always a plus... with a bit of both thrown into the mix.

I think you`ll like the forthcoming Dungeon World - Campaign book. I`m going all out on it to provide not only a solid set of rules for 10mm gaming (which work alongside the dungeons game - same character stat format and so forth), but it will also provide examples of games in action (batreps, told as short stories to add atmosphere, and with rule examples included in italics), some world history, more short stories and cameos, floating maps (which you can place anywhere you like in your own game) and a lot of photographs and sketches to enhance the mood; a simplified stat system to include various races and armies - preferred tactics for each, and a host of other ideas to help gamers create their own unique versions of the game.

Should have it all finished around Easter (April 24th I believe)  or sometime soon after.

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[nikharwood]

Excellent six - sounds great 

[sixsideddice]

I`ve added a few "nearly" finished buildings to the collection now.

http://stephen2011wargames.blogspot.com/2011/01/decent-scenery-really-makes-game-come.html

[sixsideddice]

Latest batch completed and photographed.

http://stephen2011wargames.blogspot.com/2011/01/sir-stephens-first-trained-but-untried.html

[Leon]

Latest batch completed and photographed.

http://stephen2011wargames.blogspot.com/2011/01/sir-stephens-first-trained-but-untried.html

[nikharwood]

Good stuff Six - nice to see progress 

[Pruneau]

Indeed, that's gonna make for a very nice table!

[sixsideddice]

Latest addition to my DW blog is now up 

http://stephen2011wargames.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-pendraken-miniatures-terrain-arrives.html

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[Blaker]

Very cool Blog Six, soo what is this about a Renaissance Fantasy Wargame Campaign on your blog with all those single mounted minis , hmmmm 

Interesting, would like to hear more and like your Scots!

[sixsideddice]

{{Very cool Blog Six, soo what is this about a Renaissance Fantasy Wargame Campaign on your blog with all those single mounted minis , hmmmm  Interesting, would like to hear more and like your Scots!}}

Hi Blaker, yes the Blogger is my diary window if you like to allow anyone interested in seeing a campaign come together from the ground up and it also serves a second purpose; it is a diary of notes which I use to help me with ideas for the forthcoming DW Campaigns book which will be finished and ready to be formatted to go to print by Easter.

For some reason Blogger puts the latest thread first so you have to run in reverse order to see the articles from the beginning. If you read from the beginning you`ll see what I`m doing with the blog and its purpose for both me and any readers who want to enjoy it for themselves.

Cheers for now,

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