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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Unreasonable Reactions to Character Death?

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 28, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

My wife and I had to make that last trip to the vet with Brenna, our almost 17 year old dachshund, yesterday. We’ve known it was coming, as she was extremely old for a standard dachshund and had inoperable cancer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged musings, rpg style

Old School Acquistions

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 21, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

I picked up a few new “Old School” items today: PDFs of the first three issues of Fight On! and a PDF copy of Jason Vey’s Spellcraft & Swordplay. I haven’t had a chance to do more than skim through … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD, musings, retro-clone

Where No Man Has Gone Before — D20 Style

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 16, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Where No Man Has Gone Before is nicely-formatted 70 page PDF rule book for a Star Trek: The Original Series RPG using D20 rules. It is very well done and could be considered “rules light” except for the relatively complex … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged free games

Old School Gaming and Skills

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 14, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Many people will say that the old school style of play does not work well in game where characters have skills. According to this line of thought, players tend to limit their thinking to the skills listed on their character … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged House Rules, rpg style

Random B/X/Labyrinth Lord Character Class Generator

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 6, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Paul Crabaugh wrote an article on customizing character classes for Basic/Expert D&D which was published back in Dragon #109. It actually worked fairly well, although it was best if all characters used to customized class system if any did due … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged character class, DnD

Chgowiz’s One Page Dungeon Templates

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 6, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Chgowiz has produced a “dungeon sheet” — a one sheet dungeon template. The top of the page has a grid to draw a small dungeon (or area of a larger dungeon) and an area for a map key and any … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts

New Year, New RetroRoleplaying Site, New RetroRoleplaying Message Board

RetroRoleplaying Posted on January 1, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Happy New Year! RetroRoleplaying.com is celebrating the new year with a new web site design and a completely new message board. I’ve moved the site into the 21st century, its now using the Drupal content management system insted of static … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged Site News

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