Following on from this post inputting all the d100 tables from d4 Caltrops' OSE Encounter Activities series (and I hear work is being carried out on making a physical book version of them a thing - splendid!), I put together another file for Inspiration Pad Pro so that a GM can roll up both a … Continue reading OSE Wandering Monster and Encounter Activities generator
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Hot on the heels from the homemade character sheet, I've just found that there is in fact a landscape 'official' one for Old School Essentials right on the publisher's website. Designed by Frank Reding, it's nice and simple - not too overcrowded, but not too clinical either. Could also be printed as two sides of … Continue reading Online Character Sheet – Old School Essentials (another one)
No, I've still not had much practice with drawing digitally. Why do you ask? There was originally a long, rambling moan about the lack of structure in 5e for anything other than hitting things with weapons or magic. I don't think it was particularly constructive (or well-written enough to justify using anyway) so I got … Continue reading Structures in RPG Play
Having recently passed the first anniversary of our Barrowmaze campaign using Off-White Cube, I find myself hankering after a change of pace - following an adventuring party, rather than the adventurers' guild of an open table. I was part of a short-lived PbP campaign going through Evils of Illmire, and what I saw of it … Continue reading Online Character Sheet – Old School Essentials
All images in this post attained from game-icons.net I Go, You Go One element of D&D 5e which always left me cold was Initiative. A randomly determined but then fixed turn order for each individual participant threw an initial spanner in the pacing works and then rendered a lot of creative and narrative thinking sub-optimal. … Continue reading An alternative to IGO UGO combat
None of this is groundbreaking, but it's sometimes handy to describe one's internal goings on, especially if my future self needs to look back at me with a slightly quizzical expression. We're coming up to a year of playing through Greg Gillespie's Barrowmaze using various versions of Off-White Cube. Whilst classes have come and gone, … Continue reading Variable Difficulty, or How I Learned To Love The X-In-6
I am a big fan of the d4 Caltrops blog, and over the last year its author, ktrey, has been churning out d100 tables providing something to flavour random encounters for every creature appearing in the OSE bestiary. They are, however, spread across quite a few different PDF documents - not the easiest tools to … Continue reading OSE Encounter Activity generator
EDIT: Simplified the consequences of rolling a 1 further so the only reference a caster should need is the magical mishap table. As alluded to in my post trialling the Channeller class for a previous version of Off-White Cube, my preference is that those barmy fools who think dabbling in the arcane arts is an … Continue reading Casting without spell lists
There have been some recent rumblings from my dormant miniature gaming hobby. I'm slowly warming myself up by putting together some papercraft scenery, and to make up for the shortfall in actual miniatures and terrain I've dared dip a toe into Tabletop Simulator. More on that perhaps in another post. It had me go looking … Continue reading The Haunted Dungeon – Fantastical Pulp Alley AAR
A big assumption behind Off-White Cube is that a character is not defined primarily (or much at all) by their class. Instead, the class serves as a recognisable archetype which should help guide players as to how their character's goes about adventuring. My personal preference is to do away with classes entirely, but they do … Continue reading Character Flavour Tables
