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Knockspell Magazine #1 is Out

RetroRoleplaying Posted on February 8, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

The first issue of Knockspell Magazine is out. Knockspell Magazine is the magazine for “old-school fantasy roleplaying games using 0e, 1e, OSRIC, Swords & Wizardry, and Labyrinth Lord.” Most articles should work fine with Microlite74 as well. This issue contains … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD, fanzine, OSR

Recreating the OD&D Booklets

RetroRoleplaying Posted on February 7, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Now that I’m fiddling with OD&D regularly again, I figured that it was time to create some OD&D booklets from my PDFs. I bought the PDFs because I didn’t want to keep using my original brown box set for reference … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD, OSR

Megadungeon Creation Slam on Swords & Wizardry Forums

RetroRoleplaying Posted on February 2, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Mythmere has announced a Megadungeon Slam on the Swords and Wizardry forums with the objective of creating a 20 level megadungeon in 48 hours from Tuesday at 9AM until Thursday at 9AM. Unfortunately, I have cancer follow-ups for my wife … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged OSR, Swords and Wizardry

Brave Halfling Publishing Expands

RetroRoleplaying Posted on February 2, 2009 by RandallApril 11, 2022

A lot of people seem to think that Old School gaming is a commercial dead end. While it will probably never challenge WOTC or White Wolf, it really looks like it is commercially viable for small, focused companies. Brave Halfling … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged OSR

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 →

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