This is the second in my series of sample hexes for The Shabby Land, my upcoming post-apocalyptic hexcrawl zine for Cepheus Atom. Here's the first one I did. Here are all of my Shabby Land posts. Hex 0308 - The Carcinogen Isles Parrotoid Pirates raid ships in Poison Bay with a rocket powered catamaran. Just … Continue reading The Parrotoid Pirates of the Carcinogen Isles: Another hex for the Shabby Land
I recently ran a one-shot of the RPGs Mörk Borg and The Mechanoid Invasion. Both games were fun, but I found myself thinking about the strange similarity between them, and how I could steal stuff from one to use in the other. Mörk Borg is the new Swedish hotness, a ENnie-award winning OSR fantasy game … Continue reading The World Is Doomed: Why Mörk Borg and the Mechanoid Invasion are basically the same game
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
Operation Unfathomable is a super-fun, gonzo OSR underground wilderness crawl by Jason Sholtis. I've run it a few times using the Black Hack OSR rules set. The book comes with ten pregenerated characters for Swords & Wizardry and other old-school D&D-style RPG. To make it easier for myself, I took the characters and converted them … Continue reading Operation Unfathomable: Black Hack Pregens
There's a game jam on itch.io called the HexDrive Zine Jam. It's ending tonight. It's a collection of articles for the D&D Spelljammer setting, but only by people who have never actually read the setting. Just under the wire, I've added my own contribution - The Broken Shroud. It's a short article about a Sargasso-sea like … Continue reading A Spelljammer Zine by people who haven’t read Spelljammer
I've made an ODT (Open Document Text file) template to create custom classes to match the style found in the Black Hack Second Edition book. I've designed it in LibreOffice. You can add your own text and images. You can print it directly or export it to a PDF. BH2E_Template (ODT) You'll need the following … Continue reading The Black Hack: Custom Template for Classes
I just got my copy of Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, a gonzo post-apocalyptic RPG using the Black Hack rules by Mike Evans. I got a chance to play this at the last Gen Con, and I'm happy to finally have the finished version. It's heavily inspired by the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon from … Continue reading Barbarians of the Ruined Earth: Revised character sheets
Scarlet Heroes (DriveThru Link) is an OSR style fantasy RPG designed for use by a GM running a session with only one player. It uses the same stats as most OSR/D&D games, but the rules are modified so that a single player is still able to survive adventures designed for full parties. The free Quickstart … Continue reading Scarlet Heroes – D&D for one player – Fillable Character Sheets
For no particular reason, I've put together a comparison chart of the charm person spell between most early editions of D&D and all of the OSR games I own. While generating it, I noticed a lot of D&D/OSR systems use ogres as a dividing line ("no larger than a ogre") as to whether or not … Continue reading Charming an Ogre: Same Spell, different systems
For my one-shot of the Noir Hack, I created a new house rule called the Straight Dope. It's based on the Flashlight/Smokes idea from the Cthulhu Hack. The idea is to model the social connections a character might have for particular institutions, that they could use to get information or make things happen. Each community … Continue reading Noir Hack: The Straight Dope – House Rule (with new character sheet)
