Like a lot of people, I've been gradually moving towards more rules-light #ttrpg systems over the years. My last few one shots were using things like Cairn, Knave, and the Cepheus Engine. However, I just ran Modiphius' Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of (which ain't rules-light at all), and I'm starting to reconsider this … Continue reading Conan RPG: Changing my mind about crunch
Ran my first one-shot of Vaults of Vaarn, the OSR science fantasy RPG zine. It's set in a far future wasteland Earth, littered with the technological remains of advanced super-civilizations, under a dying red sun. It's very much in the tradition of the Dying Earth sub-genre. It's sort of Numenera mixed with Gamma World. It … Continue reading Vaults of Vaarn – Fillable Character Sheet & Pregens
Here’s the next career for my Dark Sun conversion to Sword of Cepheus – the Elemental Cleric. The AD&D cleric and the Sword of Cepheus cleric are considerably different. I've combined some information from the Dark Sun book Earth, Air, Fire and Water (DSS2), the sorcery system from the Sword of Cepheus rule book, and … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part VIII – Elemental Clerics
I've finally gotten around to adding my In the Light of the Setting Sun supplements to DriveThru. They're still available on my itch page as well. These could easily be used together. The hidden entrance to the Lost Valley could easily be found in an old silver mine in the hills near Felicity. Thunder Lizards … Continue reading My Setting Sun supplements now on DriveThruRPG – Dinosaurs and Spaghetti Westerns
I've made another entry in the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam over on itch.io. It's a simple dueling subsystem that can be plugged into most RPGs. It's designed for western games, but could easily work with other genres (samurai fights would work nicely) It's based on the system David Baymiller designed on his excellent OSR Library … Continue reading MicroDuel: RPG Dueling Rules on a Business Card
I've never been a huge megadungeon guy. Spending an entire campaign just clearing rooms and collecting treasure wasn't something I was particularly interested in. (No judgement on people who enjoy it) But the itch.io Megadungeon Jam has got me reconsidering the megadungeon, and how I might run one. It's a one-year jam to encourage people … Continue reading Denizens: Some initial thoughts on a Megadungeon
As discussed in a previous post, I've been tinkering with creating a character sheet for Electric Bastionland. Here's the completed version of it (for now) I went for a Art Nouveau look, with autumnal colors. I've made both US Letter and A4 versions and added them to my ever-growing list of character sheets. eb_charsheet_letterDownload eb_charsheet_a4Download
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
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
