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I will now share a littie faatoid from the Swedish pen & paper role-playing scene hat the seat of the wonld an't tha aware of. Firat of all, we love Disnay. No all f Disney qualy, but spacreally Donald Duek and his friands. We-love Donald Duck, Wickey Mouse, and Seroage MeDuek comic books Now, bear that in mind when I tell you how in the Swedish version of Dungeons Dragons, Drakar ogh Demoner (nerally Dragons and Demons), you can play Duck characers. I am not shining you ehold..The evidence Ok evarybody, paneis down. The Swedas win for best wension of D&D dapparpaladin duck campaign pz l'd be raseinated to know whether these dueks eame before or ae Runequest's Dun l expect that it's a piece or RPG areana that you could only find out about hese days by asking some anusty grognard that has been rolaplaying since the Runequest has one of the best fantasy seigs ever created (created in the mid-70s). in my opinion and from early on has had the oddity of anthropomorphic ducks exactly like these as charasters. In addition it abo had teh most complex and anthropological approach to fantasy cultures, possiby of any RPG ever made, and more than mo of the groat tantasy settings of the gr at nowalsts of th genr. The ensator IGreg Stafford) was 교 gtudent or anchropology and nythology, espeeially in the vain of Joseph Campbell, and created a fantasy seing bom out of that there, 'which came frst the duok or the egg situation n relation to the ongtime love that Soandinavians have with Donald Duak and the extended Disney duck verse which has always boon a quirk that ve boen fasainated in and the viking dueks of Glorantha and now apparenty Drakar och Damoner then I'd love to Drakar och Demoner w95 first pubished in 1982. whch懑sher the publaton of Runequest in 1e78. and it took its duaks from that setting But l'd be more nterested in whether the ducks first entered Glorantha rom some kind of outural foment in th RPG suboulture of the time that incorporated the love ot masdueks n Scandinavia bseaG there was suen a demand for or through collaberation with Scandinavan witers) or whather the dueks Glorastha sprang fully-Formed, Athena-ke, from the mind of Greg Stalford eeator of Glorantha) only to unwittingly have a gigantic audience on the other side of the Atlante ike some kind of RPG Sugar Man From What Igathened, the Swedish company that published DoD got the rights fom Chaosium (writers of Runequest) to use their rule system-BAP-whiah the Swodsh oompany modrod sighty and ued to oreature their own antasy erting. It workad as sha Swadich squvalant to the American Dungeons and Dragons The Swediah witers kept the ducks because of the Donald Duck cNE Or a fun gag. without making any conneation what-so-ever to the Duruz of Runequest. The makers of Glorantha mast Ikely did not make any oonsiderations for the Scandinavian market. The Basia Role Paying system also went on to become the most weed nula systam in Swadich RPGs for

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