I've gotten a lot of use from this list of old & obsolete color names for OSR games. They're great for naming places, ancient books, etc. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/archaic-colours Just attach a color to the name of of something, and you're set Porphyrous Ooze The Pyrrhous Sea Codex Rubiginous The Leucochroic Throne Etc..
Tag: OSR
The Lithospheric League – Trading with the OSR Underdark
The Lithospheric League is a loose confederation of cities and merchant guilds from across the known world who engage in trade with the beings and civilizations in the Undergloom - the vast network of tunnels & caverns that honeycomb the world. It's loosely based on the real world Hanseatic League of the Middle Ages. The … Continue reading The Lithospheric League – Trading with the OSR Underdark
Gangbusters B/X Fillable Character Sheet
Gangbusters B/X is a fun new version of the old TSR Gangbusters game from the 80s. It uses OSR/D&D style rules to create a 1920's Prohibition-era gangster game. There are rules for tommy guns, bootlegging, and gangsters. I've created a fillable PDF version of the character sheet from the book If you click on the … Continue reading Gangbusters B/X Fillable Character Sheet
Basic Fantasy – Spells & Magic: Table Reference – Beta Version
My go-to system when I'm running OSR stuff is Basic Fantasy. It's my favorite blend of old-school style and a cleaner, more modern rule set. One thing I do prefer about other versions, however, are the digest-sized or A5 sized booklets they are often printed in. A recent example is the Necrotic Gnome's Old-School Essentials … Continue reading Basic Fantasy – Spells & Magic: Table Reference – Beta Version
Gamma World 1st edition – Fillable Character Sheets & Artifact sheet
I'm in the middle of preparing a one-shot game of the original 1978 edition of Gamma World for next week. I ran this game for years when I was a kid in the 80s, so it was a big nostalgia kick to start reading through it again. For character sheets, I've taken the sheets Patrick … Continue reading Gamma World 1st edition – Fillable Character Sheets & Artifact sheet
Troika! Character/Cheat Sheets
I recently ran a quick session of Troika!, the fantasy RPG from the Melsonian Arts Council. It's a simple system based on the old Fighting Fantasy System.The whole thing has a wonderful, weird, psychedelic acid-fantasy vibe. Definitely worth checking out There's a nice review of the system here: http://www.jasonpym.com/stuff/2019/03/14/a-review-of-the-troika-rpg/ To prepare for the session, I … Continue reading Troika! Character/Cheat Sheets
Freebooters Character Sheets
Night Owl Games makes a fun series of games based on the original D&D rules in a variety of genres. One of my favorites is Freebooters, a retro-clone based on the Age of Piracy in the Caribbean. It's got rules covering ship battles, boarding, and voodoo. It's short, succinct and gives a lot of useful … Continue reading Freebooters Character Sheets
White Box – OSR Fillable Character Sheets
The White Box is a fun little retro-clone of the Original 74 version of D&D. The paperback versions are cheap, and the PDF is available for free. There are 3 existing Character Sheets for White Box, I've cleaned them up a bit and made them fillable. The first two also have a location for a … Continue reading White Box – OSR Fillable Character Sheets
Clockwork Poet Warriors
Clockwork Poet Warriors (Valor-Mechs) A class for The Black Hack - Second Edition An artifact of the ancient world, Valor-Mechs are hulking clockwork automatons in the shape of a man. No living wizard or artificer can build one, but ancient models are sometimes dug up in ruins and reactivated. They will have no memory of … Continue reading Clockwork Poet Warriors
Slumbering Ursine Dunes – Basic Fantasy Conversion
Recently, I've been planning to run Chris Kutalik's OSR point-crawl sandbox adventure Slumbering Ursine Dunes as a short mini-campaign. I've also been pondering what OSR system to use. Dunes was written with Labyrinth Lord in mind, but I'm not a fan of some of its details (Descending AC, Race-as-Class). I've been looking at a bunch … Continue reading Slumbering Ursine Dunes – Basic Fantasy Conversion
