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Drakar och Demoner
Drakar och Demoner (ⓘ) (Swedish for Dragons and Demons, in Sweden commonly referred to by the abbreviation "DoD") is a Swedish fantasy role-playing game first published in 1982 by the game publishing company Äventyrsspel ("Adventure Games", later renamed Target Games).
The latest three editions of the game were translated English under the names of Trudvang Chronicles, Ruin Masters and Dragonbane.
Drakar och Demoner has its origins in the Swedish recreational wargaming scene. Target Games, the company that went on to publish Drakar och Demoner, was founded in 1980 to import and sell wargames. One of the founders of Target Games, Fredrik Malmberg, moved to the United States in order to import wargames to Sweden, while also working for various game publishers. There he came in contact with the burgeoning role-playing game scene in the United States.
Seeing that role-playing games were much more popular in the US than wargames, Malmberg got the idea that Target Games should publish a Swedish language role-playing game; English language role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons had made some inroads in Sweden at the time, but the language barrier prevented them from reaching a larger audience. Malmberg (who rented a room from Steve Perrin during his stay in California) was one of the game testers of the Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer role-playing games and had access to the unpublished manuscript of the upcoming Worlds of Wonder multi-genre set of three role-playing games.
Malmberg states that he was influenced by working with Chaosium's rules sets, and considered Dungeons & Dragons rules to be inferior and obsolete. Target Games bought a license to publish Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing combined with the fantasy-themed Magic World booklet from Worlds of Wonder to create a new Swedish language role-playing game: Drakar och Demoner. Since Target Games was a reseller of games and not a publisher, Target Games' board decided to found a separate arm of the company that would publish games, and they named it Äventyrspel.
The second edition was published in 1984, rewriting the text from scratch, fixing many translation errors, glitches in the rules, with no other major changes made. One of the available player races, the anthropomorphic ducks, was incorporated from Glorantha.[citation needed]
A rules transition began in 1985, not with the third edition which mostly corrected spelling errors, but with the publication of an "Expert" rule expansion: Drakar och Demoner Expert. Among other things it introduced hit locations, and the use of a 20-sided die instead of the percentile die for skill rolls.[citation needed]
The fourth edition in 1991 was a major revision of the rules, superseding Drakar och Demoner Expert by incorporating it into the basic rules and then expanding them.[citation needed]
Drakar och Demoner
Drakar och Demoner (ⓘ) (Swedish for Dragons and Demons, in Sweden commonly referred to by the abbreviation "DoD") is a Swedish fantasy role-playing game first published in 1982 by the game publishing company Äventyrsspel ("Adventure Games", later renamed Target Games).
The latest three editions of the game were translated English under the names of Trudvang Chronicles, Ruin Masters and Dragonbane.
Drakar och Demoner has its origins in the Swedish recreational wargaming scene. Target Games, the company that went on to publish Drakar och Demoner, was founded in 1980 to import and sell wargames. One of the founders of Target Games, Fredrik Malmberg, moved to the United States in order to import wargames to Sweden, while also working for various game publishers. There he came in contact with the burgeoning role-playing game scene in the United States.
Seeing that role-playing games were much more popular in the US than wargames, Malmberg got the idea that Target Games should publish a Swedish language role-playing game; English language role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons had made some inroads in Sweden at the time, but the language barrier prevented them from reaching a larger audience. Malmberg (who rented a room from Steve Perrin during his stay in California) was one of the game testers of the Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer role-playing games and had access to the unpublished manuscript of the upcoming Worlds of Wonder multi-genre set of three role-playing games.
Malmberg states that he was influenced by working with Chaosium's rules sets, and considered Dungeons & Dragons rules to be inferior and obsolete. Target Games bought a license to publish Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing combined with the fantasy-themed Magic World booklet from Worlds of Wonder to create a new Swedish language role-playing game: Drakar och Demoner. Since Target Games was a reseller of games and not a publisher, Target Games' board decided to found a separate arm of the company that would publish games, and they named it Äventyrspel.
The second edition was published in 1984, rewriting the text from scratch, fixing many translation errors, glitches in the rules, with no other major changes made. One of the available player races, the anthropomorphic ducks, was incorporated from Glorantha.[citation needed]
A rules transition began in 1985, not with the third edition which mostly corrected spelling errors, but with the publication of an "Expert" rule expansion: Drakar och Demoner Expert. Among other things it introduced hit locations, and the use of a 20-sided die instead of the percentile die for skill rolls.[citation needed]
The fourth edition in 1991 was a major revision of the rules, superseding Drakar och Demoner Expert by incorporating it into the basic rules and then expanding them.[citation needed]