EDIT: There is a newer version of these houserules acommodating about 50 sessions more play: Update These are the houserules I am planning on using for my next Whitehack campaign. Some are tweaks which would work for most Whitehack games, others are intended specifically to match the power level and feel of the Tribe 8 […]
I ran a sort of half-session of Edge of the Empire last night. Just a little warm up to get us all back into it and to introduce a new Scout/Force Sensitive PC into the mix. I do love the mechanics of The FFG Star Wars games, particularly their dice. It’s funny because coming from […]
“Any friend of a these Halflings is indeed a brave, erm… What are you exactly.” – Lord Donnay Magnaminous upon meeting Heavyscale Graubh. Following on from The Karmic Halfling Capers, Sometimes the Halflings need some help, or a friend of theirs doesn’t clear off quickly enough when The Fates come knocking. Whatever the reason, these are […]
“Every Halfling needs a job, and every job needs a Halfling” – Old Guild proverb. Intro Whatever you are trying to find, wherever you need to explore, whichever dungeon you are clearing out, put a Halfling on the team. Jacks of all trades, Halflings are talented but undisciplined, small but enduring, hasty but not lacking […]
Many years back (like, about 15) I was running a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness campaign, I think it was Mutants in Avalon, and I looked at my huge pile of houserules, and the fact that some of my players still didn’t really understand the rules and the fact that I still wasn’t […]
Now that I am nine sessions into running my Deep Carbon Observatory game I feel that I should share my opinions of the Whitehack rules I am running it with. Put simply, I’m loving it! It’s a lightweight OSR system with an ethos of figuring out the details of both character and setting organically during […]
***this blog post has been temporarily taken down to avoid my My Monday group players getting spoilers***
In this final post in my OSR house rules series I present a simple way to include the lasting effects of damage, and healing which scales with your character’s level without a ton of bookkeeping. Potentially lethal damage should you want your PCs to have a chance of surviving a dip below 0 HPs. And […]
Today I am sharing my house rules for action tests in OSR games. These rules were originally written to replace the percentile Thief skills found in Basic Fantasy RPG and B/X D&D. They grew out of the Ability Test table in the appendix of Basic Fantasy 3rd. Part 3: Thief Skills and Action Tests […]
Following on from yesterday’s post on OSR house rules for character generation, here’s some rules I like to use for critical hits and dual wielding in OSR games.
Ominosity 