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Monthly Archives: April 2013

New Microlite74 Variant Coming Very Soon

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 26, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

I was recently (like last Monday) offered a $100 donation to the RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund if I would piece together various rules from the different Microlite74 rules sets and companions (and customize them slightly) for a specific GM’s campaign world. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged 0e, Microlite74, old school

Lords & Wizards Playtest: Basic Changes to ACKS

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 21, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Here are some of the basic changes to the Adventurer Conqueror King System we are using at the start of the Lords & Wizards conversion — the rules we’ll be using this afternoon: RaceRace and Class are separate. Humans are … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged ACKS, Labyrinth Lord, Lords and Wizards, musings, old school, playtest

ACKS, Lords & Wizards, and the Problem of Proficiencies

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 16, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Many readers know that I loathe feats as used in WOTC D&D because far too many of them take things that anyone should be able to try to do and limit trying to do it to those characters who have … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged ACKS, Lords and Wizards, musings, old school

D&D Combat Length Poll: How Long Should the Average Combat Take to Play

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 10, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

My post, WOTC Discovers Typical D&D Players Like Short Combats, a few days ago generated a lot of discussion both here and on Google+. I thought it might be interesting to see how long readers think the average combat in … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged ADnD 1e, combat, DnD, DnD 5e, DnD Next, new school, old school

Lords & Wizards Design Plans: Take Two

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 9, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

After a week of discussion with my Sunday group, I’ve refined my plans/goals for Lords & Wizards (first listed here). The most general description of the game has not changed> Lords & Wizards will be a modern recreation of that … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged 0e, ADnD 1e, B/X, free games, Lords and Wizards, Microlite74, old school

New Random Wizard TSR Interview: David Cook

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 8, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Random Wizard has done another great interview with a former TSR employee, David “Zeb” Cook this time. The topics include Basic/Expert D&D, X1 Isle of Dread, Tom Moldvay, Conan RPG, Indiana Jones RPG, player feedback surveys during the design of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged ADnD, ADnD 1e, ADnD 2e, B/X, Interview, TSR

Lords & Wizards and Adventurer Conqueror King?

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 5, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

I have two players in my Sunday game who really like some of the ideas in the Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS) from Autarch. They have been trying to talk me into using more ideas and material from it in … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged 0e, ACKS, ADnD 1e, Labyrinth Lord, Lords and Wizards, musings, old school, Swords and Wizardry

WOTC Discovers Typical D&D Players Like Short Combats

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 3, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

Amazing Stories has an interview with Mike Mearls talking about D&D Next. From one of Mike’s comments it seems that WOTC has finally learned what many players have know for years: Most players like fast combats. In the interview, Mike … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged ADnD 1e, combat, DnD 5e, DnD Next, new school, old school

Early Plans for my Next Free RPG: Lords & Wizards

RetroRoleplaying Posted on April 2, 2013 by RandallApril 11, 2022

As I mentioned about six weeks ago, my next free RPG project will be Lords & Wizards: a game combining that “strange combination of 0e and 1e I used in the late 1970s” with some of the ideas from B/X … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient Posts | Tagged 0e, ADnD 1e, B/X, free games, Lords and Wizards, Microlite74, old school

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