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…

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. …

“It takes just three hexes to start a campaign.” The idea of that you don’t have to start big to run a campaign has been something that I’ve been saying since the late aughts — Just Three Hexes, Michael “Chgowiz” Shorten Campaign pitch At the end of Handsome, Pollux’ largest continent, a…

Six days back, spelunker-entrepreneur Gerald Law claims to have discovered the location of a five centuries’ old mausoleum. Yesterday he returned to town, screaming and crying about the end of the world. You’re going to retrace his steps and deal with whatever in Malahg’s name scared him so.

VIOLENCE!! FATAL FAUNA!! PICNIC BENCHES!! — Dramatis personae KENNEN | SK.09 ST.17,06 LK.08,05 ¬ crush 3,2 ¬ terror 3,0 ¬ lament 3,3 equipment | longspear d3, 1 provision notes | 17ŋ debt to brothel; due to be executed tomorrow at noon Dramatic personage enter formal gardens to a fountain chamber without a statue; single bower exit with budding flowers head…

The pulp authors dream of worlds like Pollux, but there’s monsters and villains are here too in this hell-spat town. Character generation You’ve three stats: SKILL, STAMINA, and INSIGHT SKILL encompasses competence in traumatic situations STAMINA combines willpower, resilience, and health INSIGHT dictates the strength of your awareness of the real world …

It is the near-future and science has invented time-travel — small, semi-stable portals allow teams of researchers to travel back to ancient times to gather knowledge. Each player is the head of a research team and needs to gather as much information as possible before the time portal closes. The…

D3 hooks, D3 quests How very FF#8 Scorpion Swamp Perimus wants to know what heraldry and insignia the soldier was buried wearing · pays 15ħ Foggomark wants you to bring him the finger bones of a herald · pays 20ħ Winchestaugh wants you to bring her a live gach · pays 30ħ Approaching the barrow The barrow…

herein we continue our Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil… Dramatis personae Gondor, a pretty-boy fighter with his simp Farmere in tow Parson, an old statue that learned magic Maoam, an old man that learned magic Pastor Chase, surfer cleric Merry Poppins, normcore hobbit with his two snake sons Chidi, sneaky…