Dungeon Squad is a fantasy role-playing game by Jason Morningstar. It is released as being 'by Jason Morningstar', rather than through Bully Pulpit Games as other of Morningstar's games have been.
The stated intention of the game is to provide a set of rules suitable for introducing teenagers to role-playing. Morningstar writes that it is "designed expressly for young players with short attention spans who demand action and fun" . He says that he...
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Dungeon Squad is a fantasy role-playing game by Jason Morningstar. It is released as being 'by Jason Morningstar', rather than through Bully Pulpit Games as other of Morningstar's games have been.
The stated intention of the game is to provide a set of rules suitable for introducing teenagers to role-playing. Morningstar writes that it is "designed expressly for young players with short attention spans who demand action and fun" . He says that he "wrote Dungeon Squad as a 24 hour RPG after an eye-opening but not super successful attempt to run actual D&D; 3.5 for a bunch of teens at the Durham County library. I left knowing exactly what they would think rocked and wrote it down."
The game is designed to be extremely simple. Each character has five dice, each with a different number of sides: a d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12. The other dice commonly used in role-playing games, the twenty-sided dice or d20, is not used in the original rules of Dungeon Squad.
The d4, d8 and d12 are assigned to...
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