The Butcher
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And the new edition of Runequest that he has been involved in.That's unfortunate given all the Pendragon-related activity these days.
Some of the best game systems and lines would not exist without Greg Stafford. A gaming Titan.
Pendragon isone ofthe RPG'smasterpieces.
I think D6 is his greatest masterpiece!!! Usable for all genres!
D100 > d6.
But is that really "his"? There are three names credited in Ghostbusters: Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford.I think D6 is his greatest masterpiece!!! Usable for all genres!
But is that really "his"? There are three names credited in Ghostbusters: Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford.
Re: d6 vs. d100, I'll say it depends on what you're trying to achieve. Flipping a coin works fine for Prince Valiant, too!
Even if Pendragon was all he had ever done, that would be enough.The two games that are solely Greg Stafford's creations are King Arthur Pendragon and Prince Valiant, although he is also the creator of Glorantha too (which has been used as a setting in multiple games). He made significant contributions to RuneQuest, HeroQuest, Ghostbusters and possibly some other Chaosium games, but was not the sole creator of them. He was the founder of Chaosium, however, and a GAMA Hall of Fame inductee.
Quite a huge representation in all.
Prince Valiant in color: sign me up!Just recently Chaosium announced they will be distributing new hardcopies of Prince Valiant and Pendragon for Nocturnal Media. Prince Valiant is going to have full-colour art instead of B&W. Very excited to get my dirty mitts on physical copies, my 3rd edition of Pendragon is lost to the mists of time. I have electronic copies but am jonesing for the real thing.
If they are like the Kickstarter copies, then Prince Valiant is in full colour, and Pendragon is also in full colour in certain pages (the chapter headers) and has a new layout anyway (it's not black and white).Just recently Chaosium announced they will be distributing new hardcopies of Prince Valiant and Pendragon for Nocturnal Media. Prince Valiant is going to have full-colour art instead of B&W. Very excited to get my dirty mitts on physical copies, my 3rd edition of Pendragon is lost to the mists of time. I have electronic copies but am jonesing for the real thing.
People like the settings a lot but he also had a real talent for mechanics.
I believe the "Roll under your stat, highest roll wins" mechanic was his--and incredibly elegant. Rarely beaten.
Fuck me, for years I thought it was a Greg Costikyan design. Got my Gregs all mixed up.
D6 Glorantha would be fun. Ditto BRP Ghostbusters.
But is that really "his"? There are three names credited in Ghostbusters: Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford.
The Pendragon system is, for me, very simply the best BRP variant bar none. It is one of the very few, long lasting game systems that has managed to remain almost entirely unchanged since it's inception in 1985 and is still played as written today. Compare that to D&D say, and you can take that as an indication of the quality of it's design.
I think that (the final point) is the point though. Nobody has thought to make incremental changes to Pendragon, as they generally are done in most other games through multiple editions, because he got it so right at the first attempt.Not to argue the brilliance of Pendragon, but I don't think its fair to judge the quality of a game over whether later editions made changes. Changes to later editions are frequently business driven or to fix perceived problems that never actually occur in play. Is Traveller: The New Era an indication of design flaws in classic Traveller? To bring it back to Stafford, is the crunchier second edition of Ghostbusters a sign of flaws in the original design?
And to beat Gronan of Simmerya to the punch, people do still play old school D&D, probably more than play Pendragon.
None of which changes the fact that Pendragon is a perfect RPG design.