Comments on: Chronicles of the Drenai

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:28 +0000

[...] Chronicles of the Drenai is a free fantasy roleplaying game based on David Gemmell’s fantasy novels. I’m not familiar with David Gemmell but I discovered that he writes heroic fantasy with a dark edge to it. Dariel’s RPG is admittedly lite but has enough roleplay material in there for a Gemmell fan to get a good game out of it. I’ve been a fan of Dariel’s work sinceLost in Smaragdis and although Chronicles of the Drenai contains less of Dariel’s fevered imagination (being a fan game, of course) it’s still worth a look and has gone in the towering review pile. [...]

By: Dariel Quiogue

Dariel Quiogue — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:36:15 +0000

Hi Kees,

Thanks for the comments! Yes I made a mistake there – you should follow p. 7, 110 points, because I split Fear into Fear of Harm and Fear of Loss.

By: Kees Kalonick

Kees Kalonick — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:23:42 +0000

I had never even heard of the Chronicles of Drenai until I saw this game. I’m working on a Robin Hood short story right now, and I often like to stat characters in my stories out in different systems because it looks like work even though it is crazy fun.

I say all this to say that this is a very impressive game, and I think the system you have made, especially with the Passions, are exquisite. The passion tag, combined with the traits, forced me to make decisions about this character that I hadn’t expected.

There is one slight discrepancy: on page 6 the Character Creation Guide stated that characters got 110 Passion point at creation, while page 7 says that player gets 100 points. I went with page 7, but that’s worth taking a look at.

Again, excellent job!