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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →