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THERE'S NO BESTIARY! 822 pages, and they forgot the crazy fucking monsters from Arduin! Not a single Air Shark or Thunder Bunny!

WTAF.
#ttrpg #arduin #osr

I'm glad I got Arduin Eternal cheap. It is *SO* dry and encyclopedic, art's competent but dull (3rd picture).

It's not fun commentary & chaos like Dave Hargrave's original (first two pictures here, from the Arduin Trilogy reprint).

#ttrpg #arduin #osr

Arduin Trilogy (1990s):
SPACE CREATURES AND OTHER ALIENS IN FANTASY
ROLE PLAYING GAMES
… Sure, it would be hard for a town like Peoria or Indianapolis accept strange alien creatures, but would it be so hard for people that probably have Blves, varves, Hobbitts, and the like living down the street from them? I think not, for what is stranger, alien with the blaster or the multi-tinted dragon that breathes fire? Think about it, and I think
'll find that logic supports the use of aliens in fantasy games, and that playability supports their usion as well. They are fun, challenging, and very novel as characters and as monsters. I can still nalize the pair of Vegan space travelers trying to figure out how a wand of fireballs worked after y had traded their stunner for it. They ran every test imaginable, and their computer kept telling em "this item does not compute"| Still, it worked when that funny looking guy in the purple robes d it to them...
a get the point, I think, but let me just say one final thing on the subject, and we'll go on to other ngs. The very essence of fantasy gaming is its total lack of limitation on the scope of play, both in content and in its appeal to people of all ages, races, occupations, or whatever. So don't limit the me by excluding aliens for any other type of character or monster. If they don't fit what you feel is nat the game is all about, don't just say NO, whittle on them a bit until they do fit.

ALLIANCE: Uruk in samurai armor, Phraint bug with bandolier, Deodanth warrior, Sslig lizard warrior, with dead Human beneath them!

Arduin Eternal (2020):
professional but super dull drawing of two Humans and a Sslig at a tavern, doing nothing.
RACES - CHAPTER TWO
he forests of the Silver Shang throng with Elves who fled from Arduin during the Nexus Wars and made a new home there.
They are xenophobic and unfriendly,
made even more so since the wars with Cyndrya not a few years past. You find little diversity there, in contrast to the hectic cosmopolitan hodgepodge of Arduin's capitol city of Talismondé.
There, if it
exists, you can find it and races of all types and genders, and a few you'd find hard to call something living at all, wandering its streets. Throon range the mountains and jungles of the Green Hell, spoken about but rarely seen outside of the occasional mercenary. Knoblins flitter in the great caves of the Heaven Wall Mountains and are considered more fantastical because of it.
CHOOSING A RACE
Arduin Eternal makes 26 races available for play.
Each race has a number of unique advantages and
RACES
abilities.
Some have advantages that incline them
towards one profession of another, though any combination is possible. Throon, however, tend to make horrendous mages unlike High Elves who almost epitomize the concept of a mage.
Players also have access to a range of additional options they can select to tailor the racial stock. Here, in the choices, a player can make their base race into something altogether different or enhance existing traits. The options, called

I did finally get Arduin Eternal & Cultures of Khaora. The latter's a normal 174-page paperback. Eternal's an 822-page hardcover tome (digest, not 8.5x11"). It's not as big as the entire stack of classic Arduin books, but one book is unwieldy. Will be a bit before I can dig far into it.

Apparently it's a coherent rewrite of the main books. I'm not sure coherence was a thing Arduin needed, but here it is!
#ttrpg #arduin #osr

Definitely worth backing this #ttrpg!

#BarrowsAndBorderlands #Arduin #osr #odnd

Arduin's Portal to Adventure, via @kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/921190015/arduins-portal-to-adventure?ref=android_project_share

I've put it off for decades. Finally decided to look into this ancient tome from the ancient days.

#ttrpg #arduin

Photo of the hardcover collection, "Arduin Trilogy". The cover art depicts two humans fighting lizardmen and an insectile humanoid done in a comic book style.

Back in the mid to late '70's #RPG'ing really had a "wild and crazy" feel to it.

My own D&D/AD&D, "rules" were kitbashed from the original game, the #Arduin books, Chivalry & Sorcery, Bunnies & Burrows (for the alchemy system? I forget), other small booklets, and #Runequest before we dumped it all and settled on Runequest (but not set in Glorantha).

It was pretty nuts, because every session you showed up, there might be a rules change. (poc) #ADandD #Roleplaying #Tabletop

From that interview:
"We're not going to be part of any licensing whatsoever, our system's going to be proprietary to Arduin and Emperor's Choice, period."

PUKE. Just the grossest, lamest take.

Arduin was about fans making stuff out of love, NOT corporate toolage. Look, here's Dave Hargrave speaking from the grave, telling these guys to quit being choads.
#rpg #ttrpg #arduin

About three years ago fantasy role playing games began to become ex- tremely popular among garners of all types. At first it was something new and wonderful, and ideas and information flowed freely among the players.
About a year or so ago things began to change: the j ayaus game was becoming £.!£ business. Anq those non-amateur game designers took on all of the trappings of things that have profit as their main motivational force: greed, secretiveness, hunger to "control the marketl1 and all of that other garbage.
Amateurs who tried to publish their ideas were being told to cease publication if their ideas even remotely resembled any those big business types had published. Yet those same people ripped the amateurs' ideas off quite freely, and with dismaying frequency.
This supplement is offered in the hopes that it will infuse new life into the amateur side of fantasy role playing garnes, and stimulate the
free idea exchanges so sorely needed to keep this type of gaming alive
and viable. This supplement does not seek to replace or denigrate any other fantasy role playing supplement or game, either professional or amateur.
It could have been three times the size you see before you, but personal problems, finances ,and lack of time required otherwise. However, if well received, this supplement will lead to others dealing almost exclusively with hundreds of new monsters, spells, and magikal treasures, already in
use in the "Arduin Universe."

This supplement is in rough form. Therefore we apologize for any misspell- ings and punctuation mixups, and hope you'll bear 'with us.
If any person,organization, company, or other entity either singularly or collectively is offended by any part of this supplement, we apologize for
it now. SORRY. This supplement is basically original, and conceived by myself. I hope you enjoy it. Because of problems,too numerous to list here, our original publisher had to withdraw at the last minute. What you see here is a last-minute effort by two of my best friends, Peter Savoy and Bill
V oorhees. Thanks again.
Special Note; the artwork for this supplement is the sole doing of one fine young artist: ErrolOtus. I'm only glad I'll be able to say ten years from now, III knew him when..."

Hey, something #TTRPG that's not #Dungeon23! Presenting, after an unconscionable delay, the sixth and final part of my walkthrough of "The Spellcaster's Bible", an #Arduin adjacent unofficial #DnD supplement from 1979! Links to parts 1-5 are in the article itself. https://mrlizard.com/reviews-and-walkthroughs/spellcasters-bible-6/

@Tesqovara Continuing to quote myself (no wonder I need glasses):
"This scene is simply filled with visual signifiers that define the kind of old-school experience that Arduin exemplified. The monster isn’t any kind of dragon, ogre, or other thing drawn from sanitized Arthurian myth — it’s a Lovecraftian monstrosity, pure pulp sword & sorcery. The low-hanging, giant moon sets the stage as a place not part of any historical era (unless so far in distant and forgotten ages that the moon was much closer). In the background stands a castle with a skull entrance — possibly Skull Tower, for which the prior volume was named. And not only does it have a *giant skull door*, it *also* has a *giant glowing magic… something… *sticking out of the top. The title font isn’t some pseudo-medieval thing, but bolted metal, evoking a science-fiction flare, while the subtitle at the bottom *is* in a “Ye Olde Dayse” font, subtly hinting at the scope of play."
#Arduin #TTRPG

@Tesqovara Yes. As I wrote:
Holy (Bleep), The Cover
Erol Otus is one of the all-time greats for old-school art, though his work in the original, first-printing, Grimoire was not up to what he’d be producing just a few years later. And Morno brought a clean, distinctive, style, esp. when you consider he was only 17 at the time. But, for my money… and I paid something like 15 bucks for my Trilogy, back when I was 16, when there was a Compleat Strategist in New Jersey… the defining artist for Arduin, and indeed for the spirit, style, and soul of all that is old-school and awesome, is Greg Espinoza. If I win the lottery, I’ll hire him for my own game line (“Lose-A-Fortune Games”), if he’s alive and working. If he’s not alive, I’ll hire a necromancer. If he’s not doing fantasy art anymore, I’ll hire Dick Cheney to convince him. But I digress.
#Arduin #TTRPG
https://mrlizard.com/reviews-and-walkthroughs/the-runes-of-doom-part-i/

I have like 4 versions of Arduin Grimoire. And they're all so badly organized, except the 2002 "Emperor's Choice Revised Compleat" books which are sanitized to the point of being any other rando D&D clone.

Further back they go, the more unreadable, inscrutable nonsense they are, but the more PRIMAL TRVTH is in them.
#rpg #ttrpg #dnd #opendnd #arduin

Hey, #TTRPG players! The latest installment of my walkthrough/rant/review/digression of "The Spellcaster's Bible" an unofficial 1979 #DnD (sorry, I meant 'any fantasy role playing game wink wink') supplement in the #Arduin syle is up at https://mrlizard.com/reviews-and-walkthroughs/spellcasters-bible-4/ . Classic #oldSchool stuff, of interest to both #OSR and newer players. Come for the bad jokes, stay for the meandering musings!

#Arduin sounds awesome, fascinating and extremely frustrating to get into. #DnD http://multiverse.world/blog/2018/03/03/welcome-abandoned-land-compleat-arduin-legacy-dave-hargrave/

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