Old write up of the Deryni for D&D

[whitelaughter]

This is likely to be (very) old news to most people, but as I was unaware of it I thought I'd ping the list:
the Deryni were written up for the D&D game in Dragon Magazine back in 1983.
https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg078.pdf

[DerynifanK]

Thanks for this. I was not aware of it and much enjoyed reading it.

[Bynw]

I am well aware of it. And used it as a reference for many years. I actually have a physical copy of Dragon #78.

[DerynifanK]

Very cool. When I was reading it, I could see a lot of the information and guidance you gave me when I was creating Fiona for our game.

[Bynw]

I have used the material in those articles for many years. With some changes of course because of different rules with D&D. Or even adapting them to other systems. Such as this one:

[Nezz]

Ah, so that's how Morgan learned about Jedi and wants to be one, because he's read the PDF? Very clever...

[Bynw]

I have some old (from the late 80s) Star Wars RPG hardcover rule books. I wrote my name on the inside cover and gave myself the title of Deryni Imperial Jedi Knight.

[DoctorM]

I think I remember this! Very cool! I was never a D&D player, but back in the Long Ago, when I was a student, I had a job at a bookstore that had a very large gaming section. So I do recall reading Dragon...

Anyone who still has physical copies of the magazine from those days...congratulations!

This is likely to be (very) old news to most people, but as I was unaware of it I thought I'd ping the list:
the Deryni were written up for the D&D game in Dragon Magazine back in 1983.
https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg078.pdf

[Laurna]

Interesting article. Thank you for sharing.
I love this quote
"... that healers cannot be evil. Most will be good, but a few will be neutral with respect to good and evil."

So happy to know this. I think this means that having the attribute of "Compassion" is a necessity for having the ability to heal.

The personality traits as described in the Keirsey system would say a person with compassion is an F=Friendly as opposed to other people who are a T=Tough.
I always knew that Alaric was an "F" or a person of compassion, even though he was the general of the Gwynedd army.  He is a leader who cares.

((P.S.  I am not saying that T=tough personalities are evil.  Not in the least. I know a lot of tough personalities who are very good people. Nevertheless. those who have evil traits -antagonists in games and story's- do not share the qualities found in compassion.))

[Bynw]

I love this quote
"... that healers cannot be evil. Most will be good, but a few will be neutral with respect to good and evil."

So happy to know this. I think this means that having the attribute of "Compassion" is a necessity for having the ability to heal.

That's based on the alignment system that exists in the Dungeons and Dragons game. All characters and creatures have an alignment based on a 2 axis system of Law vs Chaos and Good vs Evil. Both have Neutral in between them. I'll post more on it later maybe in this thread or maybe in another.