This post is one of a series of house rule posts for the Swords & Wizardry Core Rules. (S&W is a free 0e retroclone.) These posts are draft conversions of some of the house rules I’ve used in my campaigns … Continue reading →
I’m planning to update RetroRoleplaying The Blog’s theme this afternoon. The site may look wonky for a while with all sorts of sidebar stuff missing. If all goes as planned everything should be back to normal by this evening. Update: … Continue reading →
James Maliszewski has announced the Megadungeon.net website is up and running. Megadungeon.net is an “Old School” megadungeon project intended to produce a old-school megadungeon a bit at a time — something like Monte Cook is doing — except that this … Continue reading →
The Arneson Family has announced that Dave has passed away. Shortly after 11pm on Tuesday, April 7th, Dave Arneson passed away. He was comfortable and with family at the time and his passing was peaceful. The Arneson family would like … Continue reading →
Ryan Dancey has some interesting comments on what may be driving some of WOTC’s weird decisions — like the public relations fiasco with PDF sales this week — in a comment on RPGPundit’s blog. Even if you don’t agree with … Continue reading →
It looks like earlier reports of Dave’s death were a bit premature. I got the report of Dave’s death from a close friend of his, but now have a message from his family that he is alive (as of this … Continue reading →
[Important Update: According to a message I just received from Dave’s family, he’s still alive but was moved to a hospice. See Dave Arneson Makes Save vs Death for more info.] I just opened my email to some sad, but … Continue reading →
As everyone reading this probably know, WOTC pulled another public relations disaster yesterday, suddenly yanking all PDFs from sale because they discovered some were being pirated and sued the pirates. What a way to do business, punish paying customers to … Continue reading →
I needed to test some optional Microlite74 rules and talked my S&W group in playtesting them this weekend in place of our regular game. Several of my new rules need more work, which was not unexpected. What was unexpected was … Continue reading →
One month after its release, Microlite74 2.0 has had 996 downloads. The first supplement, Ancient Auguries, has had 260 downloads in the three weeks or so it has been available. News: There will be at least one more supplement featuring … Continue reading →