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Dunromin is a fantasy city like no other: Conceived and designed as a setting for any kind of fantasy role-playing game. Dunromin features all the resources you need to have a consistent, detailed yet flexible and innovative setting for city-based adventures, campaigns or just as a safe base for your characters to rest up, train and relax.
It is the explicit intention of the creators of the magnificent World of Barnaynia, in which Dunromin exists, to create a complete, consistent and fun game world within which pretty much ANY Fantasy Role-Playing system or campaign can be played. Whether your inclination is High Magic, Low Magic, human-centric or as fantastical as possible, you can work it here. If your gaming system includes things like fighters, wizards, thieves and priests with statistics like strength, intelligence and dexterity, then you can put it in this game world!
A Good place to start is the FREE to download pdf of the city maps... HERE
NEW RELEASE The latest adventure from Dunromin University Press, The Ruined City, is available in pdf, softback and hardback form! A toy box of city maps with three settings; the abandoned city; the city as a monstrous trading centre and the city of the (un)dead.
SPECIAL PROMOTION! We now have all the Barnaynia Worldbuilding Supplements available in PDF Download Bundle at almost 40% discount from list price!
Also Available: The Eternal Victim, a mind-bending new fantasy-horror novel by Patrick Knight-Bridges, is available on Amazon and Kobo
AND we have some FREE fiction too, on PDF Download - the first instalment of the Chronicles of Gavin:
Gavin is a software engineer from the UK who wakes up one day to find himself in Barnaynia; a character in his own game world! A dream come true or a nightmare he can't escape? Find out here.
Life on a Banana-shaped world is always going to be a bit different, you would think? But for most of the characters, NPCs and species the shape of the world they are trying to survive on is irrelevant. The day is 24 hours long, the horizon is flat and the sun rises and sest every day. The world has got cities, countries, mountains, caverns, dungeons and ruins, as you might expect, but there are space adventures as well if you fancy something a bit different:
Fancy checking out a Storm Giants’ castle on an asteroid? Want to step off the edge of the world and float away into space? Want to walk on the Moon? It’s all possible on Barnaynia, although such activities are very dangerous.
There's plenty of scope for normal adventures too: There are many strange cultures, cults, islands, forests, mountains, hills and deserts to discover. Below the surface, the Darkworld is a honeycomb of caverns throughout the planet's crust wherein dwell all sorts of monsters. There is even a hole through the middle of the world allowing water to move from below to above, and there are dozens of other wonders to explore.
This product is as much a source of inspiration to take your game thinking “out of the box” as it is a World Guide, including:
- Nearly 300 pages of ideas, encounters and locations;
- NPCs and monsters, as well as details of their societies and attitudes;
- Several entirely new civilisations to confuse the players with;
- Explanations of the geology, geography, science and magic of a banana-shaped world;
- Details on astronomy, astrology and how the calendar works;
- Location descriptions for all the celestial bodies;
- Loads of adventure and campaign ideas;
The 2022 Second Edition has even more:
- More details on the major civilisations;
- More information on many of the major features of the world;
- More Magic Items;
- More Monsters;
- A new character class – The Navigator;
- An extended Index to help you find everything quickly and easily
And loads more - to see how much just check out the preview function (the eye icon if you are on a phone) on the DriveThru listing and have a look at the Contents pages !
To start exploring the FABULOUS city of Dunromin and the Land of the Young we humbly suggest you begin with the Travellers Atlas of Dunromin and the Land of the Young….
The maps are FREE to download or you can get a FULL COLOUR soft-back Print on Demand (POD) book for $12.95 or hardback for $15.95 to add even more class to your Gamer Book Shelfie.
The Traveller's Atlas of the Free City of Dunromin and the Land of the Young maps out the city and surrounding landscapes in full colour, as well as containing floor-plans of the temples, some maps of other places of interest in the Land and a view of the whole banana-shaped world of Barnaynia. The high-quality PDF Download of this Traveller's Atlas is published seperately FREE so you can get a feel for the place without risking any money - what FRPG player or GM doesn't like to have a look at a beautifully prepared set of maps? Come on in, have a look around; make yourself at home!
This is the 2022 Second Edition of this book and includes improved maps of the Temples of the City and more maps of the surrounding Land of the Young.
The Players’ Guide to Dunromin - $4.95 for the PDF Download or $14.95 for the 200+ page Hardcover Print on Demand Book!
Dunromin is the capital of the Land of the Young and (probably) the greatest city on the World of Barnaynia. About its labyrinthine streets loiter innumerable citizens all looking to make a fast coin or two from naïve adventurers passing through. Save yourself that discomfort with this marvellous guide to all the significant organisations, buildings and people in the city, including a history of all the major events in the land over the past 600 years.
Not only that but this publication includes a load of play-tested, house rules and new ideas you can use or ignore in your own campaign! This FABULOUS resource includes:
- Well over 200 pages of beautifully illustrated, new gaming situations and ideas to explore;
- 9 Temples and their rules to join or offend;
- 19 Inns and other pleasure houses to get into trouble in;
- Dozens of Guilds, Businesses, Civic Buildings and other establishments of interest to any adventurer;
- Over a hundred NPCs;
- Three new character classes and details on new variations on others;
- New monsters;
- Optional rules and ideas to consider, including aging and death, percentile statistics, wounding and a hit location system, thief, skills, and more…
This is the 2022 Second Edition of this amazing game resource and includes:
- More details on cults, businesses, history and NPCS;
- The Witch redeveloped as a proper, full Player Character Class;
- A complete section on poisons and toxins, how to get them and what they do;
- More information on the Temples and the roles of the people within them;
- An extended Index to help you find everything quickly and easily;
- More monsters!
And loads more - all for just $4.95 for the pdf download or $24.95 for the Hardback POD Book AND the pdf!
To see what you get for your money just check out the preview function on the DriveThru listing (the eye icon if you're on a phone) and have a look at the Contents pages !
The Games Master’s Guide to Dunromin - $4.95 for the PDF Download or $24.95 for the 200+ page Hardback Print on Demand book
While Dunromin is a feast for the mind for any player with enough coin to take advantage of it, everything in the Players’ Guide is but a veneer for the grimy underbelly that is the capital of the Land of the Young. Only the Games Master’s Guide can peel back that veneer and expose the fun and wonder concealed by it…
This fascinating and thought-provoking tome includes:
- Well over 200 pages including all the GM information on all the locations, Guilds and personalities in the Players’ Guide;
- 60 pages of NPCs;
- 2 new NPC character classes;
- Dozens of adventure hooks and ideas;
- Wandering Monster Tables;
- New Magic Items;
- Details about all the new monsters;
- Several inspirational campaign ideas;
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the City Guarde and law enforcement;
This is the 2022 Second Edition of the fabulous book and includes:
- More details on cults, businesses, history and guilds;
- New NPCs to add more dynamic history to the game
- More Magic Items;
- More information on the Temples and the roles of the people within them;
- An extended Index to help you find everything quickly and easily;
- More monsters!
And much, much more for just $4.95 for the PDF download or $24.95 for the Hardback POD book AND the PDF Download!
To see what you get for your money just check out the preview function on the DriveThru listing (the eye icon if you are on a phone) and have a look at the Contents pages !
Other products from the Dunromin University Press are listed below...
The ones in yellow are available now at ASTONISHING value for money in PDF and Print On Demand formats, the others available soon:
- SM00 - The Travellers Atlas of Dunromin and the Land of the Young - FREE to download! - See above
- SM01 - The Players' Guide to Dunromin - core world setting book - See above
- SM02 - The Games Master's Guide to Dunromin - core world setting book - See above
- SM03 - The City of Karan – a city-guide to the second city of the Land of the Young - A 75-page guide to the second city of the Land of the Young, including important NPCs, Temples, Guilds, Businesses and more!
- SM04 - Gazetteer of the Land of the Young – Campaign Resource - A nearly 100-page guide to the Land of the Young, a complete country setting with details of nearby populations, wildernesses and possible dungeons. This includes information on locations, travel, civilisations, species and social systems of the area.
- SM05 - A World Guide to Barnaynia – Campaign Resource - See above
- SM06 - The Warren – an Adventure for character levels 6-9 - A 3-level dungeon complex with over 100 locations to explore and try to survive. This is a challenging scenario to run and play; even though the main monsters are Goblins don't underestimate just how deadly this one is!
- SM07 - Under Mirt’s Folly – an Adventure for character levels 4-7 - A multi-level mega-dungeon with over 250 locations. New monsters and challenges to the mind and the sword arm - can you find the lost treasures of the Arch Mage Mirt the Long Flame?
- SM08 - Adventurer’s Guide to the Barony of Garibaldi – Campaign resource
- SM09 - The Atlas of Barnaynia – Campaign resource
- SM10 - The Pit of Panzar – an Adventure for character levels 6-9.- A mega-dungeon of 5 levels and over 300 encounter locations with the promise of powerful treasures at the bottom. There's strange encounters, quite a lot of fighting, a dragon, tricks, traps and fun by the bucket-load!
- SM11 - The Orc Battle Forge – an Adventure for character levels 4-7 - A proper Dungeon Hack with a wilderness approach - lots of fun and a very easy set-up.
- SM12 - The Trials of a Young Wizard – Three introductory level adventures - Aimed at the inexperienced Player and GM, this collection of scenarios is a great place to start your adventures. Each secenario will last one or two meetings and are entertaining and challenging for new and experienced players alike.
- SM13 - The Tomb of Firkin – an Adventure for character levels 2-5 - an adventure featuring a tomb, a humanoid tribe and a secret cult based on geometry; easy to run with lots of stuff to confuse and infuriate an adventuring party.
- SM14 - Of the Rakuli - a Monster Supplement - Monster Supplement - 42 pages of details about the Rakuli and associated monsters. This powerful race can be the Big Bad End Guys for a whole campaign; just finding them is a challenge, but that's probably a good thing, right?
- SM15 - A Scientific Discourse on the Nature of the Universe - not a normal game supplement at all, this is written in the style of a Scientific Paper and adds extra colour and depth to the utterly bizarre game-world setting of Barnaynia and the city of Dunromin
- SM16 - The Book of Legends - a supplement of NPCs and Magic Items - A Rogue's Gallery collection of more than 100 fully detailed NPCs, along with new Magic Items, Monsters, Gods, Legends, Adventure Ideas, Hirelings and Mercenaries; 120 pages of fun!
- SM20 - The Ruined City - A toy-box of 40 pages of city maps and encounters split into three possible scenarios: The Ruined City; the Monster Community; the city of the (un)dead. This includes dozens of NPCs and their monstrous cohorts, secrets and deals, monster stat blocks and lots of ideas.
Designed originally in 1986 for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) First edition, the Free City of Dunromin had been redesigned for Old School Essentials, OSRIC and all other OSR Fantasy Role Playing Games. The main books are based on keeping the game-mechanics to the Appendices as much as possible so the whole setting can be used in pretty much any campaign in any of the following FRPG system with little or (more likely) no preparation, (not limited to nor endorsed by): 1st and 2nd edition, BECMI, Pathfinder, Labirynth Lord, Black Hack, Gurps Dungeon Fantasy, White Box, Blueholme, 5 Torches Deep, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Tunnels and Trolls, Hackmaster, Knave and Castles and Crusades. Of course, the appendices can be ignored or adapted by the reader to their own system, if required, very easily.
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