Like a lot of people, I've been gradually moving towards more rules-light #ttrpg systems over the years. My last few one shots were using things like Cairn, Knave, and the Cepheus Engine. However, I just ran Modiphius' Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of (which ain't rules-light at all), and I'm starting to reconsider this … Continue reading Conan RPG: Changing my mind about crunch
I've been working on an entry for the TroikaFest! 2021 Game Jam over on itch.io. I've decided to expand on Bad Barsoom, a micro-setting I created for a previous Troika! game jam. It's set on the Mars or (Barsoom) of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I've decided that during the mid-twentieth century, long past the time of … Continue reading WIP: Barsoom 1960 – Cold War on a Red Planet for Troika!
So there's a game jam over on itch called The End is Near: It's the Mörk Borg 24 Hour Misery Jam. The entrants were given a prompt, specifically one of the many prophecies from the Mörk Borg rule book. The designers are given 24 hours to create an adventure or supplement based on the selected … Continue reading Cultus Incendium – an apocalyptic cult for Mörk Borg
Ran my first one-shot of Vaults of Vaarn, the OSR science fantasy RPG zine. It's set in a far future wasteland Earth, littered with the technological remains of advanced super-civilizations, under a dying red sun. It's very much in the tradition of the Dying Earth sub-genre. It's sort of Numenera mixed with Gamma World. It … Continue reading Vaults of Vaarn – Fillable Character Sheet & Pregens
Here’s the next career for my Dark Sun conversion to Sword of Cepheus – the Elemental Cleric. The AD&D cleric and the Sword of Cepheus cleric are considerably different. I've combined some information from the Dark Sun book Earth, Air, Fire and Water (DSS2), the sorcery system from the Sword of Cepheus rule book, and … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part VIII – Elemental Clerics
I've finally gotten around to adding my In the Light of the Setting Sun supplements to DriveThru. They're still available on my itch page as well. These could easily be used together. The hidden entrance to the Lost Valley could easily be found in an old silver mine in the hills near Felicity. Thunder Lizards … Continue reading My Setting Sun supplements now on DriveThruRPG – Dinosaurs and Spaghetti Westerns
I've made another entry in the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam over on itch.io. It's a simple dueling subsystem that can be plugged into most RPGs. It's designed for western games, but could easily work with other genres (samurai fights would work nicely) It's based on the system David Baymiller designed on his excellent OSR Library … Continue reading MicroDuel: RPG Dueling Rules on a Business Card
I've been posting a lot of character sheets on this blog, and will mostly likely continue to do so. I've decided it would probably be useful if I bundled up some of the old ones and posted them somewhere a little more convenient for people to download. So I've taken eleven of the custom sheets … Continue reading Dead Sheets, New Games: My new bundle on itch.io
I've never been a huge megadungeon guy. Spending an entire campaign just clearing rooms and collecting treasure wasn't something I was particularly interested in. (No judgement on people who enjoy it) But the itch.io Megadungeon Jam has got me reconsidering the megadungeon, and how I might run one. It's a one-year jam to encourage people … Continue reading Denizens: Some initial thoughts on a Megadungeon
As discussed in a previous post, I've been tinkering with creating a character sheet for Electric Bastionland. Here's the completed version of it (for now) I went for a Art Nouveau look, with autumnal colors. I've made both US Letter and A4 versions and added them to my ever-growing list of character sheets. eb_charsheet_letterDownload eb_charsheet_a4Download
