General magic is really not a school of its own, but rather general spells that all magic users can choose from, no matter what school they're trained in. 🙂

If you want to learn a new school of magic, you need to take the Magic Talent heroic ability when your character gets a new heroic ability, you can't just spend a normal skill advancement. What's cool is that this is not restricted to mages - any character can take this heroic ability and start learning magic.

A monster book has been released for Dragonbane. with new monsters and new playable races. There is also a kickstarter for the old world in Dragonbane called Altor and it will focus on the continent of Ereb and the Copper Sea, with the dreaded black pirate ducks (mallards).

Great review, noble Sire! By the sound of it you are as much in love with Dragonbane as I am!

As a DM from the 1970's, and having watched several videos describing the game, I would rate your explanation of the game as #1. Well done.

It's very Runequest/BRP inspired, which is a positive. Albeit on a d20 scale rather than d100 plus some simplification & modification.

It's interesting that I don't think we heard anything of Drakar och Demoner here in Sweden's neighbor before this edition. Not that i regret coming across the Finnish BECMI edition as my first rpg. I guess we came relatively close with Runequest also being among the first games translated.

Great overview of the game, thank you so much!

Awesome review Wes! This game was on my radar but having watched this review, it might also be on my shelf very soon. 👍 👍

Regarding combat mechanics for the monsters, it would be fairly easy to reskin that to the Monster Manual or Tome of Beasts. Them you'll have a plethora of monsters to draw from.

I am running 3 games of this on a VTT and I absolutely am loving it as a Referee. It has really helped me lean into the joy of "playing to find out what happens" because the rules and adventure have such great encounter tables and you roll encounters so frequently. Some players have noted that progression can feel slow, and the base adventure is very stingy regarding new heroic abilities. I have begun slowly buffing advancement by letting players spend 2 advancement marks to roll to advance 1 skill once per session, but they have to commit to that skill before the roll. Also, I think when they are richer they will start to take advantage of the "teaching" rules so I don't want to buff too much yet. Highly recommend as a DM

Cool mechanics, great ideas. Looks fun.

Sounds like a cool game. I think I get it.

Fly birds fly!!

I’d like to play as kleptomaniac accountant roneen .