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4e “Old School Style” One Shot Report

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 28, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

We had the the “4e "Old School Style" One Shot” Sunday afternoon and evening. Sadly, it wasn’t as successful or as much fun as Bill had hoped. I’m held off writing about it for a few days so as not … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD 4e, House Rules, old school

Goblinoid Games Acquires Starships & Spacemen

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 26, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Goblinoid Games has acquired Starships and Spacemen, a science fiction game by Leonard H. Kanterman originally published by FGU in 1978. This was one of the earliest Science Fiction RPGs published and while there were many SF influences, it can … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged old school, PDFs, science fiction, Starships and Spacemen

The Microlite20 RPG Collection (Free Download)

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 26, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

A large number of Microlite20-based games and Microlite20 variants have been published over the last 3 or 4 years. I was testing PDF combining programs for a client today and decided to test them by making a combined PDF holding … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged free games, Microlite20, PDFs

Microlite75 Playtest Version 0.2 Available

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 25, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

The second playtest draft of Microlite75 is finally available. Monsters have been switched to d8 hit dice and supplement type damages. Combat has been expanded. There are some new spells. A simple alignment system is present. Spell HP costs have … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged Microlite75, old school, PDFs

4e “Old School Style” One Shot

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 19, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

The players in my OD&D game finally got to the City-State of the Invincible Overlord yesterday — with their newly subdued young dragon. Now all they have to do is find a buyer for the dragon and they’ll be rich. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD 4e, House Rules, old school

OD&D Wilderness Campaign: City-State Ahead! (Finally)

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 18, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

My current OD&D campaign set in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy has been running almost every week since the end of September (See New Campaign: OD&D Set in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy). The group started in Thunderhold and was … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged DnD, Judges Guild, old school

Spell Changes in Microlite75

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 10, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

The next playtest version of Microlite75 will include some new lower level spells taken from other editions of the world’s most popular fantasy RPG. Most old school type games spend a long time at lower levels, so I think it … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged Microlite75, old school

Alignment in Microlite75?

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 9, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

How should I handle alignment in Microlite75? I handled it in Microlite74 by simply ignoring it. While that does work and is how a minority of campaigns handled alignment back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it probably does … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged Microlite75, old school

Randall’s Essential Classic Traveller Supplements

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 7, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

As I said in another post, discovering the Traveller Starter Set is available for free yesterday convinced me to look around and see what other interesting Traveller goodies might be available. GDW is offering almost everything they published for Classic … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged old school, PDFs, Traveller

Classic Traveller Paranoia Press PDFs Available

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 7, 2010 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Discovering the Traveller Starter Set is available for free yesterday convinced me to look around and see what other interesting Traveller goodies might be available. I was surprised to see that the old — and hard to find in print … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged old school, PDFs, Traveller

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