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Saturday 27 June 2015

More Pictures of the Upcoming "Dark Albion: The Rose War" OSR Book

So, I have to play Albion in 20 minutes, which means I have no time to write.   Fuck it, then, I'm just going to show you some more Albion while I go play Albion because I think you might like Albion:

From the demonology rules:

from the poison/herbalism section:



From the equipment section:



From the Noble House Management rules:


From the section on The Wall:



That's it for today cause I have to go Albion, but later there may be more Albion for you to get into Albion because of Albion.


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18 comments:

  1. Layout looks really well done. So many books these days try to be pretty with ugly watermarks or background images or colors that make the text difficult to discern. These images look nice and legible and copiously and appropriately illustrated

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    1. Probably the Dark Albion equivalent of Antonine/Hadrian's Wall I'd wager.

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    2. The Wall was built some 1300 years earlier by the Arcadian Emperors, and is still used to keep back the Scots Man barbarians and some of the supernatural monsters that are more prevalent in Scots Land than in Albion.

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  4. Hadrian's Wall it is, then.

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  5. Was it built by Arcadian Emperor Rogerus Waterus?

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  6. Any idea about the release date?

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    1. Very, very soon. As soon as I finish my final editing sweep, we fix all the typos, and then we're good to go.

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  7. How compatible is Dark Albion with different OSR systems? I know it was originally intended for LotFP, but would it work with LL or Basic Fantasy, for example?
    Also, does the book contain any scenarios?

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    1. The way the book is set up, it will work with ANY OSR system. There are rules for how to modify from the AD&D baseline to suit the campaign.

      The book contains a couple of adventures/dungeons (the kind that could be played in one 4+ hour session) that are fully set up, a couple more that have the dungeon ready and designed but leave it to the GM to set what threat level is in there. There's also guidelines/adventure-seeds for specific set-piece locales, like at a noble or royal Court, at a Fair or Tourney, in larger cities, or at The Wall.

      Dominique Crouzet has already announced that he plans to write at least a couple of adventures for Dark Albion (which I'll be consulting him on), and at least one of these will be 'pay what you want'.

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  8. I'm a random creation table fiend. Any tables to create or customize beasties?

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    1. Coincidentally I actually rolled you up on a random demon table. I'd never encountered the random table creation fiend before, and believe me, chasing one around those goddam randomly created tables (and ottomans, too) was a pain in the neck.

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    2. Chris: there is a section on "demonology" which allows you to randomly determine the qualities of a demon.

      There are tons of other random tables in the book (and if you like random you'll probably like the Appendix P rules) but I think that the demonology rules are the only ones that actually have to do with monsters.

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    3. Nice. Looking forward to this!

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