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How to play Dragonbane

Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Dragonbane. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Dragonbane game at home.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

1. Game category

2. Attributes

3. Skills

4. Pushing

5. Conditions

6. Dragons, demons

7. Boons, banes

8. Initiative

9. How to attack

10. Zero hit points

11. Sneak attacks

12. Actions and reactions

13. Armor

14. Weapon durability

15. Movement

16. Terrain

17. Encumbrance

18. Resting

19. Magic

20. Building a character

Game category. Dragons, demons, and player characters of fantasy races. Magic, mystery, and adventure. Dragonbane is a tabletop roleplaying game designed in the mirth and mayhem roleplaying style. Mirth and mayhem means there is room for laughter and a pinch of silliness, and also brutal challenges for adventurers to face in combat. Dragonbane is a translated and updated version of the Scandinavian game Drakar och Demoner, first released in 1982. Its main author Tomas Harenstam intended Dragonbane to facilitate fast and furious play, with less prep time than other d20 based ttrpg systems. Players embody characters whose professions give them specialized ski