Recently I backed a Kickstarter for the second edition of the Black Sword Hack (BSW). BSW is an OSR RPG using the same roll-low rules as the Black Hack. Still waiting on the print version, but I got the PDFs a while back, and ran a one-shot. I'll do a full review at some point, … Continue reading Black Sword Hack – Custom Character sheets for a Moorcock-style OSR game
I've been preparing for a one-shot of Nuked! (Itch), a little post-apocalypse RPG that uses the Knave (DTRPG | Itch) ruleset. It's fairly simple OSR style game, where you try to roll low on a d20 and get below your stats. It didn't include a character sheet PDF, so I've taken the character sheet from … Continue reading Nuked! – Character sheets for the post-apocalyptic Knave hack.
Over on Mastodon, there's a little project called #mastodungeon, where people throw together a quick one-page dungeon and post it. It's still going on, so I threw together a entry of my own. I used Dungeon Scrawl for the map, and Affinity for everything else. I thought I'd post a image and PDF version here. … Continue reading The Seer of Mendacium: A one-page OSR dungeon
Just finished up a one-shot of Riverbend (Itch | Exalted Funeral), a fantasy fishing RPG from Gustavo Tertoleone and Victor Amorim. It's a charming, rules-light little fantasy setting. Highly recommended. Players are "Villagers", who travel down a river basin, exploring, battling abominations, and most importantly - fishing. It's basically a pointcrawl set on a randomly … Continue reading Riverbend: A mini-review, sample setting, and character sheet for a fantasy fishing RPG
Over on my Pulp Gamer RPG blog, I've posted a mini-review and a custom character sheet for the Pulp Hack - an OSR based pulp adventure game. The Pulp-Hack: Mini-review and custom Character Sheet
I’ve been posting a lot about a “New OSR”, an attempt to encourage others to build a community and produce gaming material for the Cepheus Engine (open source Traveller). The idea being that the Cepheus Engine is a solid base for creating your own adventures, zines, supplements, and full games. My previous Cepheus as a … Continue reading The New OSR 5: Even More Cepheus Tools
Flowstone is a city for my own Undergloom setting (previous post here), though it could most likely be plugged in to any Underdark-style world. I use it for the occasional Black Hack game, but it should work with any OSR-style system. Flowstone lies in the center of a vast cavern that serves as a junction … Continue reading Flowstone – an underground city for the Black Hack, or any OSR game
I've been playing around with the Bone Age by Bill Edmunds. It's an interesting little science fantasy OSR setting and system. Players are stone age humans, struggling to survive on an strange world where alien races war for dominance.. The System The system itself is pretty simple. Characters have six stats - Agility, Constitution, Instinct, … Continue reading The Bone Age: Mini-Review and custom character sheet for a science fantasy OSR game
I've been posting a lot about a "New OSR", an attempt to encourage others to build a community and produce gaming material for the Cepheus Engine (open source Traveller). Introduction post here. List of Cepheus rulesets here. In this post, I wanted to list a lot of the resources and tools I've found useful for … Continue reading The New OSR 3: The Many Tools of Cepheus
In my last post, I tried to make a case for using the Cepheus Engine (open source Traveller) as the basis for a OSR-like community. Since it's a completely open-source game, anyone can make their own version, and a number of people have. In this post, I wanted to talk about some of the major … Continue reading The New OSR 2: The Many Engines of Cepheus
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