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From: euren@ttds.UUCP (Leif Euren)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: (Fantasy) Role Playing in Sweden
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 15:49:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 15:49:33 1985
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Reply-To: euren@ttds.UUCP (Leif Euren)
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Rick Heli writes:

First...

>> I don't play alignment strict, but inform the player he/she is stepping
>> over the limit. If it happens too often, I deem it a change of alignment.

>So what's the point?  If they change behavior, you just change the
>alignment.  Might as well skip the whole idea in the first place.

I use it as shorthand or as a brief note on the PC's behaviour. It has more
use with gods and NPCs, then being just a short note too.


Then...

>I am sorry to hear that AD&D has spread to Sweden.  But it does
>raise an interesting question.  What is the state of the gaming/frp
>world in Sweden?  Are there other American game products?  Are they
>used in English or translated?  What is popular?  Are there
>homegrown products?  Conventions?  It would be interesting to hear
>from other countries as well...

PRGing is growing here in Sweden. 'Til summer 1982 all games were
in English and untranslated. Most popular were AD&D, Traveller and
Call of Cthuluh, but most others are available. Britain and London
is not so far away, so many of us go there on our holidays to buy
games. Runners-up to the above mentioned games are Runequest, MERP,
En Garde and some of the super-hero games.

In June 1982 was the first Swedish RPG ever published. It isn't
totally 'home-grown', but use a system developed by Stephen Perrin
of Chaosium. It's called "Drakar och Demoner", meaning "Dragons and
Demons". The system is NOT like AD&D but more like Runequest
without religions and their spellcasting abilities.

'Til that day there had been virtually no munchkins in our country
(they were not old enough to be able to read english) but now they
begin to show up. This is of course an overstatement, but they were
fewer some years ago.

We have (at least) one annual convention in Sweden, GOTHCON in
Gothenburg, held at Easter time every year.


I hope this was information enjoyable for everybody, not just for
Rick. And please mail me flames, corrections and such. I'll gather
it and post an errata sheet if necessary.


	Leif Euren	euren@ttds (...mcvax!enea!ttds!euren)