Durendal: Field Regulations for Fantasy War-Gaming

Before Dragons, before Dungeons, there was...DURENDAL!

Durendal is a fantasy skirmish and wargame and a proto roleplaying game from a pre-Gygaxian world. Players command a company of notable personalities and their retinue of retainers, porters, minions and henchmen as they go on expeditions and fight against fearsome creatures such as the devious and conniving serpent-men, industrious and cryptic morlocks to mighty jotun, dragons and unspeakable things from a primordial age. Men of Letters use Workings to perform feats of sorcery, while Men at Arms wield weapons of war to fight against their foes, all while Burglars seek to disarm traps and find the treasure hidden away by civilizations long past.

The rules are broken up into three pamphlets:

Pamphlet I is the rulebook for players, including creating a company of adventurers and retainers, and how those adventurers and retainers interact with the game world.

Pamphlet II is the rulebook for the umpire, including various procedures for random events, the stocking of encounters and the overseeing of various trials and tribulations that a company can encounter.

Pamphlet III is the bestiary catalogue, with creatures of all sorts for a company to do combat with, as well as quick tables for random encounters and creating new creatures.