It’s been a couple years since I posted my houserules for Whitehack, and as is the nature of these things they have evolved somewhat since then. So here’s how they stand today. Character Generation When rolling stats, roll 2d6+3 and assign in order. You may then choose either to swap two values or re-roll the […]
There was a discussion on Twitter last night about which bits of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons should be changed if Wizards of the Coast were going to make a new edition. Some of the suggestions seemed to miss the reasons why 5e has managed to be so popular. So here’s some things D&D got […]
I’ve recently realised that I really like Basic D&D’s odd race-as-class system. You know the one, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings are treated the same as choosing to play a Fighter or a Thief, as if being another species was just another job. To put it another way, if you are happy to play a human […]
For Coin & Blood is a nice little OSR RPG about the less savoury members of fantasy society. Thieves, assassin’s mercenaries and others make up the membership of your table’s urban gang. It’s built on the basis of Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox, and For Coin & Blood adds many of it’s own elements to the […]
I love maps, I really do. I wish I could cover my walls in all sorts of different maps. I could happily cover my sitting room walls in different maps of the world, my bedroom in all the fantasy maps full of endless forests, and my toilet with favourite dungeons. The thing is though, I […]
One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me: Chris McDowall’s blog is great in general but this post in particular, A Player’s Handbook for the OSR nails exactly what I love most about the OSR play style. A Player’s handbook at Bastionland My favorite […]
It’s been about three years since I decided to start running RPGs again. As with many gamers, I stopped when I had kids, and then ten years later I realised how much I missed them. But a lot had changed while I had been away. All the proto-storygames had grown into Fate Core, a landslide […]
It was the finale of my Edge of the Empire campaign last night and I’m still on a bit of a high. It has been a 24 session sandbox set across seven planets and a couple of space stations with the PCs getting involved in theft, refugees, droid modification, treasure hunts, giant snakes, various Hutt […]
I love it when a plan comes together. Although in this case I’m talking about when three little ideas you’ve had bouncing around in your head for a while suddenly coalesce into one bigger awesome one, rather than a surprise tank. (If my players are reading, please look away now.) Idea #1 A prehistoric campaign. […]
I’ve tried to cover all the major facets of the OSR by discussing the Basic level games, the settings and the Swords & Wizardry games, but there are plenty of other OSR books which don’t fit into those categories. Today I’m going to look at some of the most interesting of these oddities. Wolf Packs […]
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