That Dungeon game with Dragons & stuff

The high concept of this small booklet is the idea of AD&D but played from memory and house rules. The focus is on facilitating the player's creativity within a consistent framework that provides the sense of the power

Creating characters is quite freeform there are three standard attributes: Attack, Defence and Body. The fourth you make up yourself to reflect your character's supernatural dimension.

Race and Class consist of a simple formula of: “It's like a species or profession but with a quirk or twist”. The best examples from the book are the Orkstar (Like an orc but also the lead singer of a hair metal band) and Sniper-Mage (Like a wizard but with guns).

The Leader is the player that creates the challenges within the game and defines the dungeon that is being explored. The Leader can be changed at any time so it's more an indicator of who is feeling inspired at any given moment. The Leader defines what challenges have been encountered in the dungeon and can use random tables for inspiration. The group has to agree with the Leader so the goal is more of a consensus game rather than having a rotational GM.

Monsters have a Danger rating that by default is 5 but the group get to choose their rating and how many of the monsters are encountered. The higher the rating the greater the rewards in Coin that the party receive. It's a basic push your luck mechanism.

Coins can be gambled to try to win a magical item which is similar to the character's supernatural ability mechanically but uses its own pool of points. Acquiring coins also allows you to level up so they seem to be the basic currency of the game.

The entire mechanics seem quite abstract and there isn't much in the way of world building so I wonder how groups are meant to keep a cohesive tone and whether too much responsibility is with the Leader to create a satisfying dungeon experience.

This feels a very different game to most OSR propositions with its variable authority an abstraction of the power curve for characters. I think it falls into the category of games that has to be played to be understood.