Thanks for the review and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hope you did not have to explain what a "courtesan" was.

*bass boosts microphone up to 11, cranks volume until it echoes* "Death Bringer here blahblahblahblah"

My go-to system is Deathbringer with Basic Fantasy (B/X streamlined), or Black Sword Hack. Marvelous rules lite system with lots of flavor. You can teach a newb to play very quickly, and making characters takes a few minutes. Even so, like the old school games of the past, you can keep it interesting because anything the players can think up is on the table as a possibility!

Big fan of Prof DM's web channel and his gaming thoughts. I have to try this.

Hey keep it up. That system is great. My fist set of players didn’t like it too much but the other groups I played it with love it.

I LOVE ultra-lite rules in a grimdark world!!!

I've had the pdf for a long time, I love the Professor and this grimdark style. But you finally convinced me to use it! I have to translate the pdf, which I hope is ok with the creator, but most my players know only spanish :s.

I love seeing this. I've been following Dungeoncraft for a while now but somehow overlooked that this was on Drivethru RPG already

I found two typos, and Prof. DM corrected them. You heal at Constitution +1 per day, so Con-0 characters can heal naturally. The other is the armor. He forgot the shield. It is a medium armor.

I like the Rule book binder you put together. I've been going over the DB rules and making characters , I designed them using hero forge and printed them out. I'm adding their backstories with the print outs , they'd look nice in a character book or binder. I haven't played a game yet with these rules but I plan to use Basic Fantasy or Olde Swords Reign. For my own game, I might modify the "clerics don't exist" thing and make it that clerics are rare or in hiding. You can't play as one but you might run into an NPC that's an old drunk that turns out to be a monk/cleric/ holy man that lost his faith for whatever reason, or perhaps there's also a law against clerics just like there is magic users. ALL types of spellcasters are outlawed, even bards. It opens up all kinds of spells that a grimscribe can find.

I Like you take on this game.

How i use the death bringer dice is I give the players the physical dice, so they can physically see the dice. That they have and can remember them. Oh and subscribed.!!

I played 1e in the 80s and I'd say that it wasn't so much as deadly system as it was dangerous. If you play well, you live. If you make a mistake, it's not very forgiving. Also, I'm old enough to remember TWERPS, which came in a small plastic pouch, had one mini d20, and a little booklet with very few rules. The character had only one stat. I never played it but my guess is it was probably too "rules lite" for most people. But rules lite still appeals to me. D&D is fun, but it's really too much for most people, especially most beginners, and rpg's don't have to be that deep to be fun.

Thank you!

I’m a subscriber to the dungeon craft channel and bought get Deathbringer rules to show my appreciation for his content. That being said, he refers to this as a game, but it is really more like a sheet of house rules. I don’t think there’s enough meat on the bones here to make a meal, but you could use it to flavor a pot of beans. An experienced Game Master probably wouldn’t need these rules because making the game of D&D more deadly for the player characters isn’t that difficult. Whereas these rules seem to be lacking the necessary context with which to apply them to the game of a novice DM. It is my opinion that the target audience for this pamphlet is precisely the kind of player who would least benefit from it. With that being said, I do appreciate and admire professor DM and don’t really regret my purchase. It is only a couple of bucks after all. I just don’t think of this as being a “feature complete” RPG.

I like your little binder. Where did you get it?

I’m looking for a rule light game. Was planning on returing to the fantasy t trip which I last played in High School, but now toying with this. Want to share role playing with my daughter. If I do go with this I will likely modify some of the rules but I love that it’s sleek and that it’s lately a D 20 system.

Weird that you didn’t call the game “DEATHBRINGER!!!!” for your middle school group. 😄

Curious how combat works out? I recently got in touch with my old gaming group from the 90s and they want me to run a game online for them. I figure a rules-lite system is good for the task, but curious if one needs to use either 3.5-5e material, or old AD&D-2E works, and how the differ under the Deathbringer system?

I guess "magic missile" is far less popular under these rules?

So, it's D & D

Some cool ideas, but "use the spells from 5e or OSR" is bonkers.