I just got the print version of Electric Bastionland, the OSR Into The Odd influenced citycrawl game by Chris McDowall. As I'm prone to do, my first thought was to create my own custom character sheet for it. It's still a work in progress, but here's what I have so far: The city of Bastion … Continue reading WIP: Electric Bastionland Character Sheet
I've been putting together a zine detailing a setting for Jon Davis' Western RPG - In the Light of a Setting Sun. I've posted bits of it before, but I've cleaned it up a bit, added some detail, and posted it over on itch.io. It's set in a dying border town, similar to the one … Continue reading The Town that Stank of Death: A Spaghetti Western RPG sandbox zine
Over on itch.io, there's a game jam going con called the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam. Entrants create a RPG or RPG supplement that fits on a business card. I've created my own entry: Planck. Planck is a complete sci-fi RPG compatible with Traveller, Cepheus Engine, and other 2d6 Sci-Fi RPGs. It's free to download. I … Continue reading Planck: a micro Sci-Fi RPG on a business card
I've made a last-minute entry in the Great Troika Pocket Sphere Jam, a game jam over on itch.io in which designers make a small Troika! setting that will fit into a PocketMod - small booklet folded from a single piece of paper. My entry is called Bad Barsoom Bad Barsoom on itch.io My initial idea … Continue reading Bad Barsoom: a micro-setting for Troika
K.A.B.A.L., or Knights and Berserkers and Legendermain was a fantasy RPG by Ernest T. Hams, that was published in 1980, with a second edition in 1982. It wasn't terribly successful, and is no longer in print. No legal PDF versions of this game were ever released. The few reviews that existed were quite poor. Here's … Continue reading K.A.B.A.L – a character sheet for another long dead RPG
The following are some custom weapons for the Dark Sun setting, converted to Sword of Cepheus. The weapons mostly come from The Complete Gladiator's Handbook. This is part of my ongoing series converting the AD&D Dark Sun setting to the Sword of Cepheus RPG. A lot of the ideas for the rules come from Zozer … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part VII – Weapons of Athas
I recently posted a character sheet for the High Seas Hack – the Black Hack-based OSR RPG set during the golden age of piracy. The High Seas Hack treats sailing ships almost as characters, with their own hit points and stats. To match the character sheet I made, I've also made a High Seas Hack … Continue reading Ship record sheet for the High Seas Hack – an OSR pirate RPG
As part of my conversion of the AD&D Dark Sun setting to the Sword of Cepheus rules, I recently made a merchant career. It sort of inspired me to take the Cepheus Engine trading rules and modify them to be used in the Dark Sun setting. The idea being that the players could make money … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part VI – Merchants of Athas – Trade Rules
Here’s the next part of my Dark Sun conversion to Sword of Cepheus – the Merchant career. I've also included rules for trading. I was originally just going to create a quick merchant class, but I got to thinking as I read about the dynastic merchant houses in the Wanderer's Journal. For Tyr to trade … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part V – Merchants of Athas
This is the seventh 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 A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits(Goodreads) This is a 1998 book that is essentially a bestiary of fairies, demons, and … Continue reading Weird Books for Gamers VII: A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
