I've been playing Dragonbane since the BETA rules were released and I really love the system. It's really interesting to hear a first impression of the rules from a game design perspective. There were a few points that, having played the game, I noticed weren't quite correct, so I thought it might be useful to mention them. When you’re rolling your attributes you can put each roll into any attribute, you're just supposed to decide which attribute to put a roll into before making the next roll. It’s not that you have to put the first roll into STR, the second into AGL etc. like in OSR. (Also, the rules say you can use any system you like to generate your attributes, as long as everyone agrees.) The fifth attribute is Willpower, not Wisdom. The number of Willpower Points you start off with is the same as your Willpower attribute. It might be a bit misleading to describe professions as classes, because the only mechanical effect they have is determining 6 of the trained skills (out of 8-12) your character starts off with, and their starting gear. There is a recommended heroic ability for each profession, but you can choose a different one if you want. Your profession is more like a background than a class. It's what your character did before they became an adventurer, rather than what kind of adventurer they are. Profession has no effect on how your character develops - that's all down to the skills you choose to improve and the heroic abilities you give your character. The exception to this is the Mage profession, as they're the only ones who start off knowing magic (although any character can choose to learn magic as they develop). When you push a roll you don’t need to take the condition for the attribute associated with the skill you’re using. You can choose any condition you don’t already have, you just need to be able to justify it narratively. So if you push a Swords roll in combat, you don't need to take the Exhausted condition (associated with STR). You could just as well take the Frightened condition (associated with WIL) by explaining that your character is starting to fear for their life and wonder if they've taken on an enemy that's too powerful. This mechanic often feeds really nicely into the storytelling. Critical hits in combat allow you to double the damage dice OR make a second attack (or ignore armour). You have to choose one effect - you don’t get all of them! A stretch is 15 minutes and a shift is 6 hours.

Savage Worlds uses a card-based initiative system done each round. Simply hand a card to each player and one to each significant NPC combatant group and call out from Ace to Two. Ties are handled in reverse suit order. Anyone who draws a Joker can act whenever and gets a bonus to their trait and damage rolls. Afterwards, the deck is reshuffled. Certain edges (feats) allow for characters to get two or three cards on their turn and pick the best one, while another calls for a redraw if given a 5 or lower. Having played Savage Worlds in the past, this is one of the fastest initiative systems if you want to change up turn order on a round-by-round basis (which keeps things spicy).

RuneQuest had ducks you could play early on. One of the original play testers was a fan of Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and Howard the Duck.

Skill improvement mechanic is 'borrowed' from Call of Cthulhu.

I love videos like this

Background music is back!!

I have to have this game. Everything seems great, besides the art 😅 which i'm not a big fan of, though some looks cool.

They're not classes. Your profession is at best a background, but they have 0 input on your progression as you become an Adventurer. Every PC's "class" is Adventurer, except that there aren't any classes in this game. But all professions do is give you a different starting spot than other players. They're *literally* your background before you became a hero. Also, stat rolling isn't straight down. You choose where each one goes when you roll it, but if you know you want high will power and you roll 18, you can put that in Willpower first. But you can't change them as you go. The only exception is being able to swap 2 at the end of. For example, you put a high number in a wanted stat then roll higher later.

What text editor application is that?

Isn't that condition per attribute not pretty much something that many Powered by the Apocalypse games also do?

All that money for an incomplete rules intro-booklet. Brigandine or ringmail anybody? Let's look at pole arms. Zombies, there are no zombies. Did they just forget? Just 16 monsters. People should be complaining not praising. This is poor in content.