Wednesday, January 04, 2012
From the website:
Dungeon Squad is a role-playing game designed expressly for young players with short attention spans who demand action and fun. There is a lot of die rolling and some amusing shopping and number-crunching. Characters can be generated in 3 seconds.
Two short adventures for Dungeon Squad
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Atomic Highway is a set of free rules for post apocalyptic role playing.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Knights of the Crusades is an RPG in free beta-test. It looks pretty good. Here’s what the authors say:
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Nights of the Crusades is a roleplaying game set in a land and time that is familiar on the surface, but within its cracks lie tales of sorcery, madness and violence. It is a world that could have happened and then been lost to barbarity and time. Players take on characters that can explore the places involved in the Crusades, from Egypt, through to Damascus and Jerusalem. The Tale-Weaver is their guide, allowing them to unearth the horrors of war and fanaticism as they pursue their goals. As the main characters come across storytellers in their travels, they will take part in a new story within the story of their main narrative. Magic, djinn and foul beasts lurk within the minds of the storytellers, yet many secrets and shards of knowledge can be found within these tales.
And the real world is not free from horror. The land is rife with dark cults, creatures that dwell in unseen places and bloodthirsty warriors. This is a time when anyone’s thoughts, from king to slave, are enough to condemn them to death and hell, and many are they that will line up to cheer the execution. Nights of the Crusades is a mixture of the Arabian Nights, the history surrounding the Crusades and both modern and ancient tales of terror.
The rules hope to reflect mature and gritty issues that are not catered to in many popular RPGs, such as the psychological impacts of combat and killing. The gameplay also allows for tension in every form of conflict, whether verbal or physical. A group of companions made up of an artist, diplomat and physician will be as enjoyable to play as one made up of a warrior, archer and thief.”
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Darker Dungeons is a free RPG. From the author’s website:
Darker Dungeons is a pen-and-paper role-playing game. It is a sister game to Dark Dungeons and Darkest Dungeons.
Like Dark Dungeons, it is based on a specific out-of-print edition of a specific game which cannot be named for legal reasons. However, unlike Dark Dungeons it doesn’t try to faithfully emulate that game. Instead, it tries to bring it up to date by replacing many of the disparate game mechanics with a unified system (although it is careful to keep the probabilities of success/failure of actions the same to within +/-5%, so the feel of the game is very similar to Dark Dungeons).
Additionally, Darker Dungeons takes advantage of the fact that it does not need to stick to its source material as closely by including other changes, including:
Ability Scores and hit points no longer being randomly generated.
Changes to classes (the human Mystic has been replaced by the demi-human Lupine, the Mountebank has been added, and the Magic-User and Elf have been swapped).
Removal of Alignment.
The ability for clerics and magic-users (and elves) to specialise in one or more types of spell at the cost of being less good with other types.
Shields no longer giving a flat bonus to armour class, but instead characters spending Proficiency slots on them to get their bonuses, just like weapons.
The removal of Shield Weapons (Knife Shield, Horn Shield, etc.), and the addition of Flails and Morning Stars.The game is self-contained in a single book which you can download for free, or if you prefer you can buy the book in printed form.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Here’s a comprehensive list of Old School and Clone RPGs.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Go Fer Yer Gun is an OGL RPG set in the wild west.
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Forgotten Futures: Planets of Peril is:
A complete setting for the Forgotten Futures RPG based on Stanley G. Weinbaum’s acclaimed 1930s SF stories, including details of all nine worlds and the asteroids and major moons, spaceship operation and construction, weapons, romantic subplots, a detailed adventure campaign, three long adventures and eighteen adventure outlines, twelve ready-to-use characters, and much more.
Supported by downloadable deck plans, spaceship design templates, fiction etc. on the author’s web site.
Forgotten Futures is a shareware RPG - if you find this useful please consider registering or buying the FF CD-ROM, which contains hundreds of megabytes of support material.
And the original Forgotten Futures game, also free.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Forgotten Futures: Tooth and Claw
A ROLEPLAYING SOURCEBOOK FOR
JO WALTON’S WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING NOVEL
The war between dragons and humans ended in surrender, stalemate, and eventual rebellion. Five thousand years later Tiamath, the dragon homeland, is a modern state adapting to the power of steam, rapid communications, and overpopulation. Will an ancient society based on privilege, power, and occasional cannibalism be able to cope with the upheavals that lie ahead? Can Church, State, and the Aristocracy respond to the challenge, or will the future see an end to everything that Draconic society holds dear?Suggested by the works of Anthony Trollope and other Victorian authors, Tooth and Claw won the 2004 World Fantasy Award, and describes an unforgettable fantasy setting which has been adapted for this authorised RPG. Contents include
A comprehensive guide to Draconic biology, society, and religion.
Details of Tiamath’s neighbours, friends, and enemies.
A complete rewrite of the Forgotten Futures rules for dragon characters.
Two long adventures.
Five adventure outlines.
Cut-out dragons and Yarge (humans).
Illustrations by Hugo Award-winning artist Sue Mason.
Support material available from the author’s web site includes editable dragon character sheets, extra covers for binding the book as three volumes, a cutout paddle steamer, an unfinished sequel by Jo Walton, and more.
And the original Forgotten Futures game, also free.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Out of Time is a one page RPG about escaping from Dino Land.
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Saturday, September 03, 2011
The Lone Wolf series of adventure game books are available for the downloading. These are not pirate editions, but available through the generosity of author Joe Dever:
“I would be especially pleased if my granting of the rights to distribute my books in this way was seen as my ‘millennium gift’ to all those devoted readers who have kept the Kai flag flying high, through all the good times, and the not-so-good. It would make me very proud indeed if this enterprise laid the foundations of a lasting legacy, securing the longevity of Lone Wolf by making my creation freely and readily accessible to current and future online generations. For them, for us, for Sommerlund and the Kai.…”
Joe Dever 1999
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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