Interested in the First Edition of the world’s most popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game, but put off by its seemingly random mechanics and design elements? Interested in trying some of the best known First Edition adventures with old school play … Continue reading →
Labor Day Sale — 40% Off Celebrate Labor day with 40% off all RetroRoleplaying.com games, including BX Advanced, Microlite81 Expanded Edition, and Microlite74 Ultimate Edition. This sale ends sometime on September 4th. * BX Advanced $9.95 — Sale Price: $5.97 … Continue reading →
Microlite78 fan Robert has been at it again. While he was happy to see the digest/ebook version of Microlite78 First Edition Lite, he pointed out that i could do a version much closer to 1e now that I have more … Continue reading →
I’ve had several requests (including a number of requests from 1 person ::waves to Robert::) for a digest/ebook version of Microlite78 First Edition Lite. I’ve finally had time to reformat Microlite78 into a single column digest-sized pdf (and produce .epub … Continue reading →
Three more of my “Microlite20” based old school games are available on DrivethruRPG/RPGNow as “Pay What You Want” games: Microlite74 Swords & Sorcery, Microlite74 Light vs Dark, and Microlite78 First Edition Lite. For those who are not familiar with these … Continue reading →
I received a complaint about group initiative in my games and in old school style games in general, I suppose. The complaint when like this: when you roll initiative every round it’s possible the monsters will get two rounds of … Continue reading →
I was recently asked why I don’t include “Challenge Ratings” (CRs) for monsters in my old school Microlite games as that would allow people who want to design set piece encounters for their games to do so much more easily. … Continue reading →
Microlite74 has a forum. You may not know this because it has not been very active the past couple of years. I’ve received several suggestions that I should just move it to a Google+ community — from people who would … Continue reading →
Today, June 20th 2015, is free RPG day. If you do not live near a participating game store, there are a lot of free RPGs available online. RetroRoleplaying.com‘s new sister site, Microlite20.org, currently hosts over 100 free Microlite20-based roleplaying games … Continue reading →
When I doing final editing of Microlite78: First Edition Lite, Microsoft Word died as I was adding one last text box near the end of the document. I thought I had checked the autosaved version of the file carefully, but … Continue reading →