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Dark Dungeons

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Dark Dungeons is a retro-clone role-playing game - a game in the style of old-school 1980's and 1990's role-playing games; harking back to the days when rogues were thieves, races were classes, and you could start your adventuring career exploring a few basic dungeons and end up travelling the planes as an immortal being of pure divine power.

This book contains the entire game in a single work, so there is no need to cross-reference between multiple rule books and supplements.

Grab some dice and form a party like it's 1989!

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Jeremy H October 01, 2021 3:33 pm UTC
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An excellent re-creation of the RC. In many ways I find this actually better as the WOTC scan is fuzzy, especially the Weapon Mastery charts. Is there any chance of seeing an A5 format?
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Edward A June 18, 2021 2:05 am UTC
aww this is now longer print on demand? The author said in his 10 year anniversary book that there was no need for this book. But what if we love his layout but don't want to play his modded version?
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albert R July 24, 2021 12:40 am UTC
It's the same game with the same latout. Theirs just extra if you want it.
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Edward A July 24, 2021 6:35 am UTC
Yeah you can almost get the original game within DDX. I prefer the mystic/Monk class to the Lupine. It reminds me of Oriental Adventures. And I prefer to have the Magic-User and Elf switched back the original way. For my game, I need both versions of DD.
There is no retro-clone of Oriental Adventures. That would be a great book!
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James W October 01, 2021 8:47 pm UTC
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Sorry for the SUPER late reply, but If you never found it, check lulu.
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Matt W April 06, 2021 1:03 pm UTC
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Gotta love an entire RPG in a single volume. I cut my geek teeth on BECMI and while I still have a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia, I went ahead and got a softcover print edition of this game after seeing the PDF. Impressive stuff.
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Edward A March 16, 2021 6:01 pm UTC
It would be nice if they still offered the print version of this game. I own both copies and I would prefer to run the original Dark Dungeons game. I don't like all the game changes the author has made to the game. I do like the way he has rewritten and organized "the worlds greatest role playing game." This is much easier to read and learn than the Rules Cyclopedia. (also available here).
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Byron H October 17, 2019 8:01 pm UTC
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Would love to get a print copy. What is the difference between this and "Darker Dungeons"?
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Ricardo M December 04, 2020 6:19 pm UTC
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You can get an official softcover or hardcover print at lulu.com
AFAIK Darker Dungeons and Dark Dungeons X depart from BECMI aka Rule Cyclopedia compatibility towards the author's idea of a better system.
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W N V June 02, 2019 5:41 am UTC
Is this game with ascending AC or descending?
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Benjamin B June 02, 2019 5:20 pm UTC
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descending
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Jeremy W March 06, 2018 6:08 pm UTC
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No Blackleaf... no deal!
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Jonathan M September 06, 2018 5:47 am UTC
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2nd page... "Black Leaf waved frantically at her companions to get them to stop their whispered conversation, and ever so gently pressed her ear to the door. She could just make out the faint sounds of chanting in a long dead language."
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Newbie F June 07, 2019 12:14 pm UTC
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I'm at a complete lost for words on how he could've missed this.
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Jonathan N July 14, 2017 3:44 am UTC
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This is a fantastic edition comprising a magnificent recreation of the cyclopedia of the world's most popular fantasy tabletop RPG.

Highly recommend spending the money on the hardback print deluxe edition too!
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Martín S January 04, 2017 9:12 pm UTC
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Nice to see this great OSR game here, hope we soon see the Darker Dungeons one also
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Jesse R September 16, 2017 12:19 am UTC
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Is Darker Dungeon a complete book in-and-of-itself or is it an expansion of Dark Dungeon?
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Martín S September 24, 2017 3:43 am UTC
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AFAIR is a stand alone game, an "upgrade" of Dark Dungeons, with attack bonus and some more "modern" mechanics
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Bryan S December 25, 2016 9:59 pm UTC
Will this be available in a POD version in the future?
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Esmeralda B April 19, 2017 4:54 am UTC
Dark Dungeons has three different POD options on Lulu.com

https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=738603
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Troy F August 14, 2016 12:52 am UTC
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Any differences between this and the version on the previous site?
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Christopher L April 06, 2016 10:14 am UTC
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I remember playing this game a few years back. I have to wonder though, why the shift to watermarked PDFs from the free downloads you used to have on your Gratis Games site?
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David S May 05, 2016 2:00 pm UTC
I asked about the Gratis Games website going down in this topic, at the Dark Dungeons forum at The Piazza:
http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=15688

Blacky said that his ISP decided to stop providing free webspace. He is in the process of moving more PDFs onto this website. (The others are currently not available.)

If you want any more details, feel free to post questions on my topic. :-)
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Giulio T April 10, 2017 7:50 am UTC
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This book is awesome!
I was desperately searching for darker dungeons.
Hope the author find time to upload on this site :)
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Pierre S March 24, 2016 9:06 pm UTC
Very good, but how many pages? Nothing is indicated in the info column on the right.
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April 03, 2016 12:50 am UTC
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343 pages, not including the front and back covers.
All amounts to a self-contained game, very well done.
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