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. …

The plan was to play via live-text for a hour, with very few rules — essentially if your character could do it, they can, or they’ll know the cost. If we needed to randomise, we’d roll 2D6 against each other, with ties going to players (plus complications) CHARGEN you’re a “hero”…

maim the mob of middlemen A mainstay of osr gaming since Dungeon Crawl Classics, The Funnel is a type of pre-campaign session (or standalone game) where a bunch of dudes go into a dungeon and many of them do not come out. …

The land weeps under the blight of the tyrant Mörkbeth. Assault the grim fortress of Dunsinane, kill the monster, and free the land of the Scottish plague. Make it through Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Tall close deciduous trees Anaemic scrub and gravel floor Owl-calls, day and night Navigating the wood is managed abstractly — tally progress that…

ANCHOR: Anything in contact with the floor within ten yards of you cannot be moved for one minute. BEAR: Calms down those who are working for you, enabling them to refresh D6 PW each. BIRDS: Whistle a short message: all creatures (man or beast) that hear can understand it. BOOK: Become aware of the…

Dramatis Personae Tibbius plays Sidney Whitehill, a feared gossip columnist often used as a vehicle for society slanders and intrigues. Recently, Sidney published a column in which one sentence mentioned that Edouard Angles, a respected mill owner, had been observed late at night leaving a “gathering” at the home of a “known…

If you do not do it this way, you do do it wrong In general, I run player-first games with obvious peril. There’s usually absurdity at the table but that’s often within the realm of player rather than character. Think Discworld type parody / peril. Chargen Convention games When you want player characters…

A 30 “minute” dungeon for odnd as per Princess of Spiders’ methodology Last year, a powerful endolith attempted to vivify the dolmen stones overlooking Caldera Edge. They only discovered in the midst of the ritual that the site had been previously been consecrated in the name of hibernating lizardine gods…

an alternative to dice for Electric Bastionland, Into The Odd and Cairn Replacing the dice Take a regular pack of playing cards. Remove the twelve court cards (each Jack, Queen and King). Introduce one of the jokers (I recommend the guarantee one). This forms a communal stock that’s drawn from whenever players would…