Stu
03-01-2007, 10:36 PM
Apparently, Emporer's Choice Games will soon release a brand spankin' new version of the Arduin rules. They say they will be soliciting playtesters this weekend, at the forums at Arduin.com, and I was curious to see if anyone would be interested.
I haven't playtested stuff for a few years, but I enjoyed it when I did it. I definately think we could assemble just the sort of drunken, irascible, hyper-critical piss tank required for the final polish of a rules set.
Back in the wierd old days, Dave Hargrave, a veteran hobby shop owner in sunny Califronia, played D&D like a fiend and eventually published his house rules and campaign notes into a barely-legible, incoherent mess that was indisputably the best rpg product of all time. It was essentially a D&D bolt-on before people knew they couldn't do that. The "system" was revised once, into a somewhat more coherent package--presumably less derivative of D&D. Still fun and unabashedly complicated, Arduin continued to appeal to "hardcore" gamers. The new rules have been produced by protoges of Dave Hargrave's, who played wth him back then, and never really stopped. I don't know what the new rules are going to be like. I hope they aren't too slick. That would be like Jefferson Airplane becoming Starship. But it will be fun to have Arduin on shelves again.
If there is interest, I will try to sign up for a playtest package.
Edit 3/2: They posted the applications. The window for submitting applications is pretty narrow. If you're interested, let me know right away. I'll go get a keg . . .
I haven't playtested stuff for a few years, but I enjoyed it when I did it. I definately think we could assemble just the sort of drunken, irascible, hyper-critical piss tank required for the final polish of a rules set.
Back in the wierd old days, Dave Hargrave, a veteran hobby shop owner in sunny Califronia, played D&D like a fiend and eventually published his house rules and campaign notes into a barely-legible, incoherent mess that was indisputably the best rpg product of all time. It was essentially a D&D bolt-on before people knew they couldn't do that. The "system" was revised once, into a somewhat more coherent package--presumably less derivative of D&D. Still fun and unabashedly complicated, Arduin continued to appeal to "hardcore" gamers. The new rules have been produced by protoges of Dave Hargrave's, who played wth him back then, and never really stopped. I don't know what the new rules are going to be like. I hope they aren't too slick. That would be like Jefferson Airplane becoming Starship. But it will be fun to have Arduin on shelves again.
If there is interest, I will try to sign up for a playtest package.
Edit 3/2: They posted the applications. The window for submitting applications is pretty narrow. If you're interested, let me know right away. I'll go get a keg . . .