Being an exploration of why D&D is surprisingly good for playing games in the setting of The Water Margin, and how you can do some specific, quite simple things to do so.
Above: your D&D party, yesterday.
The Water Margin 水滸傳 is a classic adventure novel almost certai…
Here follows a 'heroic injuries' system for when a Player Character hits 0HP in OSR games. It was designed for use in my Water Margin game of Blueholme. It creates situations more akin to those that befall the heroes of the novel and, as Chris McDowall has noted, a wounded party member is dramat…
(an OSR-driven World of Dungeons game in an archipelagic Yoon-Suin)
(Illustrations by Richie)
In the Caves of Chaos...
- A friendly belu is wowed by the concept of cooked meat and tricked into exchanging its "second best" treasure (a sack of silver coins) for what is left of Adjo's magic …
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(an OSR-driven World of Dungeons game in an archipelagic Yoon-Suin)
Well, they found the Caves of Chaos. On the way:
- a visit to the Garden of Bao Yu, which might have been a dream (but if it was, how did Panya get that collection of useful leaves?)
- Adjo and Panya (and Cicak) split o…
My friend Ben asked me the other day, "What's the benefit of OSR? I mean, what does it give you for this game that you wouldn't get from another kind of system?" Thinking aloud, in written form, follows.
1) Underlying structures.
The classic six D&D stats kind of "don't do anything". Certa…
The first session of the open-table, archipelagic Yoon-Suin campaign Kapuloan Kulon was on Tuesday 15 August 2017.
We played through a thinly reskinned "Something Stinks in Stilton" by Oli Palmer: the PCs (Adjo the ranger, Panya the wizard, Bennu the thief) were hired by a grumpy tea merchant to …
I didn't get a real playtest this weekend [posted 24 Sep 2018] but I did manage to test the probabilities by doing a solo run-through of a lone detective over an in-game month. Not 'realistic', since in actual play I wouldn't know the threshold for the next break in the case, but by and large it che…
1)
Male human ranger
Name: Paul Gascoigne
Animal companion is a wise salmon
Pretty standard ranger except that he was subject to the arcane magics of a wizard, which is both a blessing and a curse.
His sword hand is made entirely of bread. It functions like a normal hand, and is crusty enough t…
Some "anarcho-socialist XP" rules for World of Dungeons, based on those in Adam Dray's "City of Brass" for D&D. (from July 2016)
Earning XP
Solving problems
At the start of each session, the GM will ask each player to roll on the random events table. This creates a number of challenges for th…
From Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st edition (1986):
"Observation
Characters might enter a room and see the rough stone walls, the upturned chair, and the heavy table. But would they be likely to see the scratches on the floor made by the secret door or the dark smear of blood on the chair?
"I…
(Work in progress)
Standard horse stats
Hit Threshold: 8
Movement Rate: 3d6
Stamina: 2d6+6
Stability: 3d6
A foal will, once it reaches maturity, have one stat the same as each parent (determined randomly) and the average of its’ parents stats otherwise.
Add all a horse’s stats togethe…
Stay Frosty fans, here's a Google Sheets character keeper you can use for online games, with drop-down lists for rank and MOS. Frostiness also updates with Tension.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mfXN-wxB3rhVRQ08svsprer_MsV4Xo2Ox4lR50ORmK4/edit?usp=sharing
A table of 19th-century anarchist newspaper names in English and Portuguese; they're 'fictional' in the sense that they're real anarchist newspapers from history but translated out of their original languages.
1 The Peaceful Revolution
2 The Word
3 Liberty
4 The Alarm
5 The Firebrand
6 Mot…
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28 August 2015: "I've got 10 hit points, a new spell, a spear I purloined from a trap left by a crooked jeweller and a one-quarter share in a pouch of strange powder. I've never been more ready for adventure."
1 Jun 2015: Dungeon Crawl Classics updat…
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