Retro Clone - Dark Dungeons

[Billiam Babble]

This retro clone is a massive tome.

Dark Dungeons - download page 
343 pages of rules.

EDIT: Revised Link:
http://darkdungeonsblog.wordpress.com/downloads/

Within OGL/d20 SRD guidelines and retro clone precedents that have gone before, the authour of Dark Dungeons has taken a very brave step and incorporated many, if not all, of the rules from the D&D Basic, Expert, Companion, Masters and Immortals sets from the 1980s/90s.  (possibly similar to the Rules Cyclopedia which I've never seen myself)
In Companion and Masters there are many rules which should be applied at the start of a campaign, such as progressive weapon skills and damage, extra armour and equipment and so forth, not to mention high level play.

I've only read a few pages, but I thought I should share the fun.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Another retro clone!!
I don't know about anyone else but I'm finding it hard to keep up with this all!

[Marchomer]

Nice retro clone! Actually is the Rules Cyclopedia clone, maybe is more nice than the original work (RC is a great reference work, but it has a lot of bugs too).

And... ehy dudes... WOW!!!  With DD when I reach the 8th level as a cleric I can REALLY cast spells!!! MUHUAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Marchomer wrote

And... ehy dudes... WOW!!!  With DD when I reach the 8th level as a cleric I can REALLY cast spells!!! MUHUAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

Although according to the first frame, the girl was playing a wizard ... and not one dice was rolled at any point either

has it been 2 weeks already? welcome back to the forum dude!

[Marchomer]

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

has it been 2 weeks already? welcome back to the forum dude!

Thank you Mortis! Nice to see you all again! I'm glad to see so many new topics too!

[Billiam Babble]

The author of Dark Dungeon was asking for designs for character sheets.  I was going to post my submission to his blog - but he's changed that.  And tonight I'm The Piazza forums aren't loading.  So I'm stuck with this character sheet and nowhere to post it.

So I thinks, let's post it on LatD and then at least I'll get closure for the night.
The character sheet can be adapted to other forms of Basic style D&D.

PDF (400K)
Dark Dungeons Character Sheet by Billiam Babble

EDIT: Preview Image:



The weapons art is from the game - the author is pretty specific about the look of the rules.
Some of the hand drawn boxes are hideously stretched but I rather like the sort of rough letra-set quality to the sheet. ;)

[Billiam Babble]

For those that are interested, retro-D&D-clone Dark Dungeons is back on Lulu in it's second printing.  I've actually ordered a hard back, which is very unlike me, but I've never owned a copy of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (although I do I have the BECMI box sets which have similar content), since it's a whopping 344 pages I thought perhaps the hard cover would make it more manageable.


 
Author's order page, with links to Lulu - he makes almost no profit on this, apparently:
http://darkdungeonsblog.wordpress.com/printed-books/