DoubleZero is a modern action RPG from Dancing Light Press. It's a percentile system inspired by the old James Bond RPG from the 80s, but the rules are closer to BRP/GORE. Here's a thread on the Basic Roleplaying forum that goes into a little more detail. There's a free SRD on Dancing Light's site that … Continue reading DoubleZero: Fillable Character Sheet for Modern Action RPG
I've been playing around with creating my own version of a character sheet for the Cepheus Engine, the open source version of Traveller. It's based on my old Hostile character sheet. It uses a nice clean Eurostile font that I hope gives it a futuristic feel. There's a wound tracker that will automatically provide boxes … Continue reading Cepheus Engine: Fillable Character Sheet – BETA VERSION
I just ran a one-shot of Mörk Borg, the Swedish OSR dark fantasy RPG that seems all the rage these days. It's a lot a fun, and has a dark heavy-metal album cover vibe to it. I used the Death Ziggurat hexcrawl adventure that's available for free on their site. Since I use pregens, I … Continue reading Mörk Borg: Fillable Character sheet
As a request, I've created fillable character sheets for the first edition of Boot Hill, the old west RPG from TSR. It was published in 1975, and was a little closer to a miniatures wargame than a RPG, but did have some basic advancement and campaigning rules. I've made a couple of different versions. One … Continue reading Boot Hill 1st Edition – Fillable Character sheet
The Price of Freedom was a Red Dawn-inspired RPG from West End Games in which the players are guerillas in a Soviet-occupied 1980's America. It didn't do very well, and as far as I know, is not available (legally) as a PDF. I wasn't really a big fan of it, but I have wasted a … Continue reading The Price of Freedom – Fillable character sheet for yet another dead RPG
I recently ran a one-shot of Tiny Living Dead, the Tiny D6 RPG from Gallant Knight Games. Half the party died.Here are the pregens I used, created with my custom TLD character sheet: tinylivingdead_pregensDownload A cheat sheet of the basic Tiny D6 rules for each player: tinylivingdead_cheatsheetDownload Here's the scenario I used - it's a … Continue reading It’s All Happening at the Zoo – A Tiny Living Dead scenario with Pregens
I'll be running a one-shot of Tiny Living Dead, the zombie RPG, later this week. It's by Gallant Knight Games, and uses their house system, Tiny D6. This same system is used by Tiny Dungeon and Tiny Frontiers. It's a fun, light system that's great for one-shots. (it's also on the Bundle of Holding for … Continue reading Tiny Living Dead – Fillable Character Sheet
Here's the second post on the town of Felicity, my spaghetti western influenced setting for In the Light of the Setting Sun, the wild west indie RPG from Jon Davis. This has a list of notable townsfolk. I've listed stats for all the major characters, occasional quotes by and about each person that can be … Continue reading Felicity Part II: The Townsfolk of Felicity
I finally ran my first one-shot of In the Light of the Setting Sun, the wild west indie RPG from Jon Davis. Here's the notes for the town I created for the setting. I used it as a sandbox game the players could bounce around in. This post will list notable town locations. Future posts … Continue reading Felicity: A town setting for the Wild West game In the Light of The Setting Sun
This is the sixth in my series of capsule reviews of non-fiction books from my library that would be useful or inspiring in RPGs – Weird Books for Gamers This is a 1978 book that purports to be an expose of psychic and parapsychological research in the Soviet Union. The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries by … Continue reading Weird Books for Gamers VI: The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries by Henry Gris and William Dick
