Adventure World Chassis

The Hobbit A spectrum of table styles with two extremities: crystalized and fluid. Crystalized. The world is set in stone. The GM or an intellectual property has declared its boundaries. Details are made ahead of time like calendars with holidays and festivals, towns with maps and points of interests, major factions with motivations and rosters, …

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Cowboy Bebop: Space Bounty Blues

With Netflix's live action cover of Cowboy Bebop coming out just around the corner (FRIDAY!), I've been doing so much to get into the mood. Because Bebop is 100% style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCIHP5dc44&ab_channel=Netflix I've been watching the anime, listening to the music (while I write this), and reading this delicious RPG recently shown to me: Space Bounty …

Landover, An Open Strategy Game

<Once called Matrix games> Chris McDowall is running a game called Sunrise Expansion. See what the heck an Open Strategy/Matrix game is right here. It's like Free Kriegsspiel Revolution and wargames and LARPing and play-by-post had a baby... Anyway, I read up on what he was doing and took a stab at the concept in …

GRIM RATS

Fun lich guy... 🙂 After making GRIM FORTUNES and Island Rats, I wanted to revisit both in this hack. HERE ARE THE RULES. What's all new here? Reaction (missing from Island Rats, whoops)New backgrounds (they fall closer in line with classic DnD, plus some pulls from Wormskin and Cairn).No longer married to Hot Springs Island... …

Island Rats

The remaster no one asked for! 😀 This is the marvelous Maze Rats with the glorious gunpowder sandbox Hot Springs Island. Friends and I were talking about Hot Springs Island at a party (Happy 21st, Jon!). Made me remember this game (find the old version here). And there were some changes I wanted to make. …

Adventure Hour! Draft 0.3

This is a project of mine I've been working on off and on. It's gaming with kids in anachronistic fantasyland Free Kriegsspiel Revolution style. This is a little PDF I put together back in December with four pages: a title page, all of the rules, all of character creation, and a nice, comprehensive animal table. …

Blood in the Snow

Wicked helmet. Weekend project. There's something about getting REALLY into a task where the hours pass by that is just beautiful. Spent around 8 hours in the past two days alone. Geez. More Arnesonian design! Edit: This game has been reworked to Skorne, a full four page RPG. Find it here. This game came about …

Adventure Hour! RPG

Read the preview and purchase the rules here! Introduction What you are reading describes a game but is not in itself a game. While other games have winners and losers, every player of this game is a winner if they enjoyed the process of play and the shared experience of the story they made together. …

Rascal (Knave Hack)

I've been reading and watching and reading Goblin Slayer (watch it on Crunchyroll, NSFW) and Vinland Saga (watch it on Amazon Prime, rated mature for violence and language), both very OSR types of anime/manga. Consuming these has put me in a very inspired, creative mindset. So, I refurbished my hack of Knave and gave it …

World of Elements

This has been a passion project of mine for two years now. Avatar: The Last Airbender is my favorite show ever. Apocalypse World has forever changed my RPG experience. Mashing the two has been a blast. Watching Samurai Champloo has reinvigorated my interest in this game and my design philosophy has changed a bit since …