First of all, do we need a new OSR? No, of course not. There's no shortage of people still creating, playing, or just discussing D&D-style games, with oceans of interesting material available. Also, I'm not going to quibble over the definition of the OSR, or whether it's "alive" or "dead". A lot of photons have … Continue reading The New OSR: The case for the Cepheus Engine
I recently ran a session of Helm, the new OSR system from Jon Davis (sivads-sanctum.itch.io). It's a genuinely fun little system, very much worth picking up. Here's some system notes and a couple of character sheets. Making Characters The character generation system is quite unique. You roll a 1d6 for each body location - Head, … Continue reading Helm: A mini-review and character sheet for a low fantasy game
I'm still running my weekly Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io) campaign using the Black Hack OSR rules set. The Lumberlands book is just a 48 page zine, so there's plenty of room to add my own details. I've been posting them here. (previously I, II, all Lumberlands posts) Tattlesnakes - HD 1 Highly venomous snakes, who … Continue reading Oddities of the Lumberlands – Part III
Just picked up a copy of Viking Death Squad, a gonzo little OSR-style RPG from Runehammer games. It's got alien War Pigs, demons, Borgs, and unfrozen vikings. It's a very heavy-metal inspired game. There's a PDF character sheet available, but it's not fillable, so I've made a revised version of the original that is fillable, … Continue reading Viking Death Squad: Fillable version of the Character sheet
I've been running my weekly Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io) campaign using the Black Hack system. It's a fairly fast paced game with a lot of events happening. To make it easier for players to keep track of what's happened and where they've been, I've made a map of the campaign area. I took an old map of … Continue reading Lumberlands Campaign Map
I've been continuing running my ongoing Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io) campaign using the Black Hack OSR rules set. It's been fun getting deep into one system and world, after years of just running one-shots. I've decided to post all the new details I've been adding to the fantasy lumberjack setting. The rules are Black Hack … Continue reading Oddities of the Lumberlands – Part II
I've started a short Black Hack campaign using the Lumberlands setting. Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io) is a fun little system agnostic fantasy setting, that details a fantasy lumberjack version of the North American forests. As the game goes along, I've been adding little details of my own creation. I'll post them as they come up. … Continue reading Oddities of the Lumberlands
Vaults of Vaarn is a great little OSR game by Leo Hunt. It's a sort of a far future Dying Earth-style science fantasy setting. There's the remains of dead civilizations littering the blue sands, bizarre technologies, and all kinds of mutants and robots roaming about underneath a dying red sun. Highly recommended. The rules are … Continue reading Vaults of Vaarn: A custom character sheet for an OSR science fantasy game.
I’ve finished up my conversion of the OSR zine Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io), the fun lumberjack fantasy setting, to the Black Hack ruleset.. I've assembled everything into two zine-sized (5.5" x 8.5") PDFs that can be downloaded and printed. Remember that you'll need a copy of both the Black Hack and the Lumberlands zine to … Continue reading Lumberlands: A Black Hack conversion in two PDF booklets
I’m continuing my conversion of the OSR zine Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io), the fun lumberjack fantasy setting, to the Black Hack ruleset.This time, I'm making a custom character sheet and spell sheet. Previous Posts:Part I – Classes are here.Part II – Sasquatches are here.Part III – Dangerous CreaturesPart IV - More Creatures This character sheet … Continue reading Lumberlands: A Black Hack character sheet for the fantasy forest setting
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