Dungeons Daring (TM) 3E Game Masters Guide Released

MarkOliva

This is a non-commercial announcement. The Vintyri (TM) Project is a non-commercial publisher. All of our work is free. We sell nothing. The FM8 relevance is that the GM Guide contains several FM8 maps that are available for free downloading in FM8 format. They can be edited and modified in FM8. (Some of these maps already have been released as maps of the week.)

We're announcing this on a limited basis, because the Creature Guide isn't finished yet. We don't want to make a big noise until all three core books and the introductory adventure module are done. That's a bit farther down the road yet. But the new, free, 3rd Edition Dungeons Daring (TM) Players and Game Masters Guides both now are available for download. Because there are various download possibilities, we suggest that you start at:

http://www.vintyri.org/daring/dungeons_daring.htm

... and follow the links from there that interest you.

This new release is a 242-page illustrated and heavily bookmarked PDF. The bookmarking is more thorough than was the case with the first and second editions.

Third edition is incompatible with 1E and 2E (both of which will continue to be available). The Game Masters Guide - in line with suggestions from a number of 1E and 2E users - contains considerably more information on absolute magic, runic magic and character creation than 1E or 2E did. It also gives the game master detailed guidelines for working with the new ability-based 3E system that was introduced with the 3E Players Guide. This system eliminates character levels, hit dice, saving throws and much more.

There are two Game Masters Guide download packages, both free and released under the Open Game License 1.0a:

The standard package gives you the GM Guide PDF and electronic tracking lists in formats for OpenOffice.org (TM), LibreOffice.org (TM) and Microsoft (R) Excel, the freeware Die Roller program and runic fonts. The PDF contains trademarks and illustrations* that are not Open Game Content. The text and everything else in the PDFs are Open Game Content. The freeware program Die Roller also is included in the zip file (about 55 MB).

The reference document package includes the Game Masters Guide Reference Document in .odt format. This is the native format of OpenOffice.org Writer and LibreOffice.org Writer. Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 also can open and edit .odt texts. With free converters from http://www.microsoft.com installed, one also can open and edit .odt files in Word 2003. This text is identical to the PDF book except that the trademarks and closed content illustrations have been removed.

The reference document package is the Open Source version. This gives you all of the material on a 100% Open Game Content level and in completely editable form. You can use this package to modify the Dungeons Daring guidelines to better suit your own campaign goals. You also can use it to excerpt text elements for your own creations. Or you even can use it to make all or part of the Dungeons Daring the foundation of your own RPG system, all without cost or additional licensing.

The final open source element is a download package containing the original maps used in the Game Masters Guide, also released under the OGL. The maps in this package are in the .fmp format of Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 from NBOS Software (http://www.nbos.com). These maps are 100% editable and 100% Open Game Content. You need FM8 to modify them, but once you have FM8, you can modify or use the original Dungeons Daring maps in almost any way you wish for almost any purpose you wish.

* The illustrations that are not Open Game Content are not the intellectual property of the Vintyri Project. We use these illustrations under license, but we are not licensed to distribute them as Open Game Content or to distribute them outside of use as content in our products.