Online Character Sheet – Old School Essentials / Labyrinth Lord / BX D&D

I have to confess to have played very little BX D&D and its retroclones, for all that it seems to be one of the more popular OSR games, so it's taken me a little while to get round to putting together a online-ified version of a character sheet. Then I came across a character sheet …

A month’s worth of sessions – a megadungeon reflection update

Quite a few more sessions have passed since the first look back at running an open-table megadungeon, so it seems appropriate to have an update. From the Barrowmaze GM Screen Affairs so far Of the 41 sessions so far (current global matters have ensured the capacity for rather a lot of games in a short …

Online Character Sheet – Electric Bastionland

Source: Kickstarter Electric Bastionland (with a free edition available here) was the first time I dared venture into being Kickstarter backer. I very rarely go for a physical copy of any RPG product - cost is a factor, when I can economically print them myself, and as there is only so much shelf space I …

Online Character Sheet – Knave

Source: youtube Here's a character sheet I put into Google Slides for the benefit of an online Play-by-Post game running through Stonehell using the TheManWithAHammer's Knave hack. The campaign was fun but unfortunately shortlived, as has been the case with any PbP game I have played in or run. But that's a post for another …

Online Character Sheet – The Black Hack 2e

Source: Oubliette Magazine In this time of greatly increased virtual play, and at the instigation of someone on reddit asking for online-friendly character sheets, I thought it would be good to start putting together some characters sheets for the game systems I've used, for my own use and should anyone else want to use them. …

Putting Together a Solo Dungeon Crawl Generator

I recently discovered that Inspiration Pad Pro can incorporate images into its output. This would be an ideal way to simplify one aspect which had proved one of the clunkier sides of generdaating solo dungeon crawling - corridor and room layouts. Running the Ruins of the Undercity's spatial directions through IPP had worked well enough …

Thoughts on collaborative attacks in Off-White Cube

I typed up some thoughts on Discord for our Barrowmaze campaign, and it turned into something of a brain splurge. Thought it best to paste it here for personal reference - I'm always losing things in the transient Discord channels. The context for it is that I've just floated a draft of Off-White Cube 0.14, …

Ruins of the Undercity – Solo Playthrough

Inspiration Pad Pro generator at the ready, I gave Ruins of the Undercity a run through. Rather than complicate things with lots of different classes and special rules, and threw together an Excel document to track a party of six Adventurers (using the Off-White Cube Adventurer class) and armed them as RotU suggests - very …

Procedurally-generated dungeons

Two of my favourite OSR products are my home printed copies of Gardens of Ynn and Stygian Library, two adventures which generate maze-like journeys through otherworldly settings on the fly. Roll dice to find out what the next 'room' is and contains, and the deeper into the 'dungeon' you go the stranger the things you …

Session Report: Return to Lootin’ Tootin’

Participants Kalis & Sam (same player, splitting XP and gold as a share)Woakeston Expedition Considering the small number of player characters, the decision was made to take out a loan from the jeweller Huffnpuff to hire all prospective employees: two torchbearers, two halflings and two men-at-arms, along with a borrowed wardog. Mounting up on nine …