For British reminiscence on your random tables If you don’t have a copy of Out of the Pit you should get one. It’s consistently my favourite monster manual to dip into. But Sean, my system of choice doesn’t use SKILL and STAMINA! Fear not. …

Thanks to too many D6 CHARGEN Roll D6 for hp. Roll 2D6 in order for STR, INT, WIS, DEX, CON, CHA. With INT 9+, gain a language. With CON 9+, gain 1 bonus hp. With CHA 9+, gain a retainer (classless, D6 hp). Choose an estate: war, worship, wizardry. Start with…

Pick a talent, any talent. Magician Class You have read the ancient tomes, but these are the works of jugglers and theatricians. Through your observation, calculation, and a soupçon of sincerity, you are able to replicate powers primal and arcane. Weapons: Dagger, dart, oil, staff Armour: Any armour, no shields Hit Points…

Iran OSE yesterday, kicking off the second season of my formerly sandbox campaign, where they’ve now gone thirty leagues northwest to start Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (henceforth, ROTOE) It’s a module I first read at fifteen, so I’m hugely nostalgic for — doubly so in that we…

At last your two day hike is done… — 41 years ago this weekend, Puffin Books released The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The book was built to show British readers what the burgeoning roleplaying game scene was — rather than explaining what it was — running them through a sample adventure game entirely contained within the book. …

My oldest and smallest friend has long been into 40K and got me playing some 9th on Tabletop Simulator (and once in person with his other army (go nids!)), and I've been much happier with the rules of 10th ─ that I don't need to memorise a huge list of options for every command phase makes things much smoother for me. I'm used to complex games ─ I play MtG, I run complicated trpgs ─ but I'm very happy at the lower cruft here to get my head around a new dangerous money hole

Background If we’re talking sanity, well then ALL wizards are mad. But today we’re talking rage, and THIS wizard is angry. Donchealean built this complex when he first considered heading westwards. In the decades since, his experiments have caused no end of hassle for local flora, fauna, and road surfaces. One…

a Shadowdark adventure for 4–6 crawlers of LV2 — Victory was hard won and you’re headed back to home in luxury! The carriage is plush and your road is as smooth as your conversation ─ until ── BLIMEY, BLEMMYES ! Pick up the pdf here or here! It works perfectly as a convention game or early within an ongoing…

We often read and find it writ, Though scholars rarely talk of it, Lay stories sung to harp & string Can frankly be of anything. Of all the stories that they say We’ll hear Sir Orfeo’s today. Sir Orfeo is a medieval retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth —…