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Mauro Longo, Andrea Macchi, Max Castellani: Brancalonia (2021, Acheron Games) No rating

Enter the Kingdom of Brancalonia, a land full of pitfalls and money-making opportunities. Create your …

I've became interested in the world of Brancalonia as a quirky, folklore-themed #ttrpg setting when it was first released. And now that I've actually started to learn #Italian , my attention has increased - my plan is to read the Italian-language originals of these books once I'm a bit firmer in the language.

Still, I'm not quite happy with the rules for this setting. I mean, I do understand why they picked the 5E version of #DnD , but limiting character growth to 5th level doesn't really make for a great fit. I'd rather use an entirely different rule system that's a better fit for lower-powered protagonists, such as #WFRP , instead of trying to turn the D&D rules into something they are not.

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@juergen_hubert I would also recommend the movies the setting is named after: L'Armata Brancaleone and Brancaleone alle Crociate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27armata_Brancaleone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brancaleone_at_the_Crusades

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@kyonshi @juergen_hubert It definitely needs some good tavern brawl rules. The 5E ones (from the Brancalonia book) look to be quite decent, I'm not sure what's the state of the art of B/X here. The AD&D1 pugilism table?

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@mhd @juergen_hubert dunno, why do we have to go to adnd for that though? b/x is easy enough to hack with other rules. I'd maybe convert some of the parts from the book for use in osr systems

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@kyonshi @juergen_hubert That's why I'm asking. I see the OSR as rather authority-driven and would've assumed that re-using EGG constructs beats whole-cloth invention in this case, too.

I myself would either not bother with conversions or go with something totally different anyway (BRP, TDE, Dying Earth).

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@mhd @juergen_hubert there's two kinds of OSR, one tries to recreate the freeform madness of White Box or B/X DnD, the other tries to recreate the best times they had while playing ADnD.

I don't remember who pointed that out first, but it's astoundingly true.

personally I like the B/X framework because it's easy to hack into all kinds of forms, and it has a large body of additional stuff that are somewhat compatible. ADnD has some interesting things, but Gygax was a bit too baroque in it.