INSPIRED by my inextinguishable love of HeroQuest and Advanced HQ – the sacred games of my golden youth - last summer I set about creating a set of ultimate miniature-based dungeon bash rules (or something). Initially these were for private use only and involved little more than a crude interweaving of SBH/SDG, AHQ and Mordheim, with a few flourishes of my own. Fast-forward to now and the rules have become their own entity: standing alone and - dare I write it? - aloof from the aforementioned sets. Like them, though, they are still miniature-based, with character advancement and campaign-play at their core, but the mechanics are assuredly different; less clunky than the GW systems yet evincing more depth than SBH. In the tradition of such rules they are too restrictive to be considered true roleplay, but they do of course borrow motifs from, for instance, early incarnations of DnD.
The edition offered here (in pdf format) has been heavily edited and quite extensively play-tested, but I'd be patently lying if I claimed it's truly finished (and, yes, I know the page numbers are whack). This is where you guys - esteemed fantasy gaming aficionados - come in! I'd be extremely grateful if any interested readers could download them, have a quick read - the core rules are covered over a paltry six pages! - and perhaps then at some point have a quick game. If any of you are able to do so and then get back to me with any thoughts, critiques et cetera I'd be most appreciative. As you can probably tell I'm rather pleased with these rules, but am naturally slightly biased in this view and would like to garner the honest opinions of others. If judgements are positive then I'll think about commissioning a friend to work up a logo and some artwork and get to work on improving the layout. The intention here is not to necessarily make a profit or anything of the sort: I'd just love to author a set of rules with cool artwork that give fellow gamers pleasure.
Here's the link: Cavern Crawl (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByE36M8vP7cJTXFoQjZ4QzNCelk)
Some images from a recent crawl:
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc93/sicluceatlux/dungeon2-1.jpg)
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc93/sicluceatlux/dungeon3-1.jpg)
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc93/sicluceatlux/dungeon4-1.jpg)
More blurb on the blog (http://drumsdeep.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/scenes-from-my-dungeon.html).