Andrew Domino

Dungeon Crawl Risus

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Love your favorite RPG, but want to get playing much, much faster? Try Dungeon Crawl: Risus! It combines the classic rules-light game with any and every class/level/template/whatever combination you’d like.

This is my “ad copy”; I also have other games at my site www.dominowriting.com/games.html

Thank you.

DUNGEON SQUAD – Yet Another Variant

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I’ve got yet another variant set of rules for Dungeon Squad – this one tries to replicate the class abilities and powers of characters from D&D 3.5 and 4.0. I’d like to get the word out as much as possible. There’s also a link to it (and more) on my website: dominowriting.com/games.html

The rules are the same as in the original Dungeon Squad except as listed.

Character Generation

Assign d4, d8 and d12 to Warrior, Wizard and Explorer as normal. Each character also begins with 15 Hit Points.

If you are using miniatures figures and battle maps from other RPGs, each figure moves 30 feet (six spaces) per turn. Spells, bows and other ranged attacks have a maximum distance of 100 feet (20 spaces). You can even account for cover and difficult terrain, if you want to make this simple game more complex.

“Stuff Dice”
In DSYAV, you assign your “Stuff Dice” (the d6 and d10) to special abilities from the list below. These include and replace the Swords, Bows, Armor and Magic Spells information listed in the normal rules.

If the GM allows it, you can use the “expensive gear” +1 rank rule to represent skills or magic items that aren’t special abilities found below. Remember, you can only carry four items of equipment with a dice value, including special abilities in the form of a piece of equipment.

Each character also begins with a small weapon (a staff or dagger or punch) doing d4 damage, which does not count against the equipment you can carry. Characters start with 10 gold pieces, most often spent on an Adventurer’s Kit, since weapons and armor are included in the special ability lists.