Support and Community
Dragon Warriors has a strong fan-following around the world, but particularly in the UK and Australasia, where it was one of the first role-playing games to reach an audience beyond a few specialist games players. It’s much less well known in North America, but Magnum Opus Press is committed to spreading the word about it around the world, and providing support to new players and old fans.
Enough woffle. What have we got for you?
Publisher Support
Magnum Opus Press will be releasing new material for Dragon Warriors at regular intervals: adventures, background material and rules expansions. These will be available in print form, and as PDFs. There’s loads of information about this on the rest of the website; go and explore.
Secondly, there’s this website—and particularly the Downloads page, where you’ll find official add-ons and extras for the game, as well as errata sheets for any DW book that needs one. Go have a look: the selection is growing all the time.
Mailing List
There is no ‘official’ Dragon Warriors email list. At Magnum Opus Press we prefer to encourage fan-based support for our games; we’ve seen too many company-run mailing lists turn into one-way press-release delivery systems (though we have one of those too: scroll down to the bottom of this page for more information.)
We recommend you join the ‘DragWars’ Dragon Warriors mailing list on Yahoo (click here to send an email to join) which won’t flood your mailbox with messages, and has a lot of intelligent discussion of the game and its world. James from Magnum Opus Press hangs out there, as well as several of the people who worked on the new edition of the game, so you often get the official word as well as the unofficial ones.
Facebook Group
At the time of writing there are Facebook group for Dragon Warriors: one called ‘Dragon Warriors’ and one called ‘Dragon Warriors: The Lands of Legend’. They’re particularly useful if you’re looking for players in your area, or possibly for a PBEM (play-by-email) game. As with the mailing list neither of the groups is official or run by Magnum Opus Press but we’re glad they exist and we’re members of both. If you have a Facebook account, you can join the group by clicking on the links above and hitting the ‘join group’ button.
Wiki
A members-only Wiki (an online editable encyclopaedia) has been set up to share fan-created content for the game. There’s some great material there. At the moment membership is by-request only: send an email to dw.wiki.admin@gmail.com to ask to join, though be warned that it’s a two-way street and members are expected to contribute as well as read.
Fan-pages
There are many Dragon Warriors websites out there, where players talk about the game and the way they use it and customise it, and display material they’ve created themselves. Here’s a pick of some of our favourites:
- The Unofficial Dragon Warriors Homepage was the first DW website on the net and kept the faith in the long years that the game was out of print. It hasn’t been updated in ten years but is still well worth a look.
- The Repository holds a lot of fan-created material, as well as links to other DW-related websites. It hasn’t been updated since the new edition came out, but none of the articles have gone out of date. Plenty to keep you busy here.
- Annuin is by Tim Harford, the best-selling author who gave the new DW rulebook its inside-cover quote. Tim is also a regular player in Dave Morris’s long-running DW campaign, and therefore has access to some of Dave’s own notes and outlines for adventures.
- Hogscape is a regular contributor to the Dragon Warriors mailing list described above, and this is his own site with some downloadable content and a nice style.
If you have a page of your own and would like to see it included here, drop us a line.
Conventions and Demo-Teams
We’re eager to have Dragon Warriors played as widely as possible, including demonstration games in stores and at as many conventions as possible. Although we usually can’t be there ourselves, we can provide support for people who want to show off DW to their fellow gamers. There are adventures suitable for demoing the game on the Downloads page.
Mongoose Publishing (our publishing partner on Dragon Warriors) has its own demonstration team, the Mongoose Infantry, which features DW as one of the games it shows off along with such classics as Runequest, Traveller, Paranoia, Conan and more. If you’d like more information on the Mongoose Infantry, including information on how you can participate in it, or how to get them along to demo at your convention or retail store, then please click here.
News
There’s a mailing list for Dragon Warriors announcements and news, run by us. It’s very low-traffic (maybe one or two messages a month), and isn’t for discussion. We don’t give anyone else access to this list or your personal information. To join or unsubscribe, fill in your information below: