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May 28Liked by Castle Grief

Thank you for sharing this setup! I played my first quality solo session the other day with White Box FMAG and Tarvannion after some kind nudging from Chaoclypse. Absolutely blown away by how immediately thrilling it was.

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Awesome so glad you enjoyed it! I’m working on a follow up to Tarvannion with more…everything, including some adventure sites etc.

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Let's go with the dark version of this! I'll buy it in half a breath. Faster than your loaded dice wielding man-at-arms can knock out a PC.

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Haha. Boy what a workload that would be. I’d love to tackle it though.

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I feel that. Would be a hell of a ride though.

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May 28Liked by Castle Grief

Would be amazing to have a hack of this made by you, with all the vibes that you manage to create in your games! Thanks for sharing your way of playing it, it's inspiring!

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"Man-At-Arms rolls…another. F*cking. 20."

Love all the cross-pollinating. I'm in two multi-person games now, but went through a long dry spell where this stuff would have been platinum to me. Storing up ideas for the next one.

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Unbelievably unlucky!!

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May 28Liked by Castle Grief

Wow, what an awesome post. I want to play this myself. I love the cover you did for the basic rules too. I hope the reimagined art project gets completed and can bring the game to a new generation of gamers too. Thanks for posting this.

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Cheers Mike!

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Ah a binder full of various rules hacked together into a cohesive game. Gygax would be proud.

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Thanks for the shoutout! I've been having a ton of fun with Barbarian Prince. The Chainmail/OD&D version I ended up going with, the Age of Conan hack by Jason Vey, works incredibly well!

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Hell yeah! Thank you for watching Matt, and also yeah, those were some bad rolls :D

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This and your Keep on the Borderlands post has given me the final push to actually set up a solo game. Should’ve done this much sooner. Glad I did!

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YES. lemme know how it goes, seriously.

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Jun 15Liked by Castle Grief

This was great. I used the same map and some filled out hexes to run a short session of DCC RPG with a couple friends once. I always think about using the map again sometime.

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It’s a great map for sure!!

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21 hrs agoLiked by Castle Grief

Barbarian Prince was my first introduction to TTRPGs. The feeling of desperate exploration can't be beat!

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Ah cheers. Absolutely!!

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