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Listless in Lorrden Fang, or Avoiding table lookup in Tunnels & Trolls

I love the second oldest published TRPG. What’s more, I managed to snaffle a pristine copy of the Deluxe edition hardback for £20 (!). However, as excellent a product as it is, I don’t always have space to carry around an A4 hardback of nearly 400pp. Luckily, the rules of…

Tunnels And Trolls

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Listless in Lorrden Fang, or Avoiding table lookup in Tunnels & Trolls
Listless in Lorrden Fang, or Avoiding table lookup in Tunnels & Trolls
Tunnels And Trolls

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Out of the Out of the Pit

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. …

Osr

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Out of the Out of the Pit
Out of the Out of the Pit
Osr

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My ODND houserules

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…

Rpg

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My ODND houserules
My ODND houserules
Rpg

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4 days ago

Magician Class for Shadowdark RPG

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…

Trpg

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Magician Class for Shadowdark RPG
Magician Class for Shadowdark RPG
Trpg

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Sep 11

ROTOE — OSE S02E01

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…

Ose

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ROTOE — OSE S02E01
ROTOE — OSE S02E01
Ose

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The Ugly Monster

·Aug 28

Build “Fighting Fantasy” Fan Works for the SKILL + STAM FAM JAM

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. …

Fighting Fantasy

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Build “Fighting Fantasy” Fan Works for the SKILL + STAM FAM JAM
Build “Fighting Fantasy” Fan Works for the SKILL + STAM FAM JAM
Fighting Fantasy

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Aug 12

I Love Being a Religious Extremist
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Colin Wray

My oldest and smallest friend has long been into 40K and got me playing some 9th on Tabletop…

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

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Aug 2

Mad Wizard’s Hall — a dungeon for Tunnels & Trolls

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…

Tunnels And Trolls

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Mad Wizard’s Hall — a dungeon for Tunnels & Trolls
Mad Wizard’s Hall — a dungeon for Tunnels & Trolls
Tunnels And Trolls

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The Ugly Monster

·Jul 5

Blimey, blemmyes!

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…

Osr

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Blimey, Blemmyes! — a Shadowdark Adventure
Blimey, Blemmyes! — a Shadowdark Adventure
Osr

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The Ugly Monster

·Jun 9

The Oldest Fantasy RPG Setting I’ve Run — Sir Orfeo

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 —…

Tolkien

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The Oldest Fantasy RPG Setting I’ve Run — Sir Orfeo
The Oldest Fantasy RPG Setting I’ve Run — Sir Orfeo
Tolkien

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sean f. smith / he, him

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