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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →