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REVIEW OF DAGON PRODUCT SUMMARY

Ring Side Report- RPG review of Dagon-A Name: Dagon

Necromonicon Gamebook Publisher: Officina Meningi
Author: Valentino Sergi , H.P. Lovecraft
Originally posted at www.throatpunchgames.com, a , Alberto Dal Lago
new idea every day! Category: RPG

Product- Dagon System- Necronomicon Gamebook Pages: 64

Producer- Officina Meningi Price- On kickstarter now!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/officinameningi/the-
necronomicon-gamebook-trilogy-dagon-carcosa-
and-kadath TL; DR- A solid implementation of a Historical, Horror, Multigenre, Mystery, Occult

choose your adventure with combat. 85%

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Basics- Choose your own insanity! Dagon is a
necronomicon gamebook. These are a series of REVIEW SUMMARY
choose-your-own-adventures where you get to Capsule Review
choose an action AND, like other games such as October 25, 2023
fighting fantasy, you may roll a d6 to determine
combat. If you know the choose-your-own-adventure
games from the 80s/90s you know the drill and may by: Ed Kabara
already be hooked!

Mechanics or Crunch- To determine if you will like
this, ask yourself-"Do I like Choose-your own-
adventure books with combat?" If you said yes and
you also like Lovecraft, then this is right up your alley.
This doesn't reinvent the wheel of these games, but it
doesn't need to. You just choose your action and
maybe have combat. It's solid enough and fun. It
might not be the most inventive for the base
mechanic, but there are some stats you choose at the
beginning and you have a solid time playing. 4.5/5
Style: 4 (Classy & Well Done)
Substance: 4 (Meaty)
TL; DR- A solid implementation of a
choose your adventure with combat.
85%
Ed Kabara has written 191 reviews, with average style
of 4.44 and average substance of 4.51 The reviewer's
previous review was of The Hidden Isle.

This review has been read 281 times.

Theme or Fluff- Just like above, if you like Lovecraft
and like choose your own adventures, then you will
like this. This isn't new ground. If you need some MORE REVIEWS (2)
crazy new angle to Cthulhu, then you will not be
4/19: by Antonios S (3/3)
happy. What is novel to this type of book is the
7/02: by Jeb Boyt (2/2)
Dreamlands. When you rest and when some crazy
things happen, you have random visions that can In 2 reviews, average style rating is 2.50 and average
make more crazy things happen as you drift off to substance rating is 2.50.
another reality. It might not be the newest concept,
but it still does the old standard story of the Lovecraft
Downloadable RPGs:
mythos well. 4.5/5

Execution- This is the most conflicted part of this

book. The art is good. The flow is good. The story is
good and easily readable. What isn't great is the rules RPG Campaign Manager:
explanation and the hyperlinking. You jump around in
the book, but on a PDF there are no hyperlinks. That's
bad in a basic RPG book, but worse in a book where I
am going to have to repeatedly jump all over the
place. Also, the explanation of rules is a bit off. Not
mostly, but one very key thing is left out: dice. The
game says use a die. Man, this is an rpg book aimed
at nerds; it's aimed at me with my Horrorclix Cthulhu
staring back at me as I write this. If you say die, I
literally have no idea what you are talking about. They
mean D6. That's not horrible for the normal person,
but me with with over 100GB of RPGs and over 1000
board games in my basement spent 20 minutes
trying to understand if they meant d20 to my crazy
almost non-euclidean dice I bought at a crazy gaming
convention that most people can't remember for
some reason. The things I am not happy with are not
even close to stopping me from buying in, but it's a
small thing that escalates to larger things. 3.75/5

Summary- I like choose your own adventure games, I

like simple combat in RPGs, and I like Lovecraft. This
is a fun way to get new people into Lovecraft, a fun
way to get literature nerds into RPGs, and a fun way to
get people gaming. I like this product. It isn't the
newest story you will see under the sun or in a terrible
old book full of secrets. But, like a classic hamburger
from your amazing local diner, the classics are good
and don't need to be changed all the time. What isn't
great are some things I need in this style of product in
2023: hyperlinks and a bit more rules discussion. Tell
me I need a d6 and give me a hyperlinked PDF, and I
will love this thing nearly unconditionally. I am the
geek this is aimed for, and I am glad to have gotten
this. Check out the kickstarter now! 85%

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