Jason MorningstarBesprekingen

Great game, terrific rules!

An excellent indie game, although strictly for one-shots. Explicitly story-oriented and cinematic, so may not be well suited to folks looking for a more traditional RPG experience. But this is probably my favorite indie game at this point; I enjoy it more each time I play.

If you're checking it out, make sure to find all the additional scenarios published for free (as PDFs).

A great game!

An imperfect rulebook.

I found myself constantly flipping back and forth to reference small things, and the tables needed during actual play weren't all together in a convenient place. There's a "cheat sheet" page which is meant to remind you of the basics, but it didn't have nearly enough info to serve that purpose.

The playsets (settings and details needed to play) included in the book weren't really to my taste, but the free playsets available on the website were wonderful. I highly recommend digging through those for something that fits your specific group rather than using one of the ones included in here.

I read through the book probably for the 3rd time last night in preparation for playing Durance for the first time. The book is well organized and explains things well, though we had a hard time translating it into play (I was the only one of the 4 who had read it). I'm not sure if this is a failure of the mechanic of setting up scenes with questions or a failure of the players to understand our communal goals of telling a story. I think with a few more games and more people having read the book this could be less frustrating.

Other than the problems we had, the game is interesting, has great setting and character generation, and sparks endless stories in my mind.