Stellar Warriors Update I’ve mentioned, several times, my desire to an over-the-top sci-fi game inspired by late 70s/early 80s tropes in both game design and science fiction (and by “science fiction”, I mean, the pulp space opera, movies, and TV … Continue reading →
Alma Mater, Sophomore Year The Return of Biff Muntz As you may recall, far longer ago than I’d like, I posted Part I of this review and walkthrough, in which I began generating a character for the RPG “Alma Mater”, … Continue reading →
Alma Mater A Review And Walkthrough Alma Mater is one of the better known obscure role playing games of the early 1980s, and once you’re done parsing that, we can move on. Ready? Good. Published in 1982 by Oracle Games … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 7 Featuring An Illustration Not Nearly As Awesome As The Benign Boots, Sorry And Also No Boobies. Boy, This Is Gonna Suck And so, I continue my review of the Necromican (note: Not Necronomicon), a classic late … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 6 Featuring What May Be The Best Piece Of Erol Otus Art Ever At Least, Excluding Those That Show Boobies Because Boobies>Everything I’ve got two long 4e articles in draft mode — one on armor and endurance, … Continue reading →
The tagline of this site is “Old School Attitude, Modern Rules”. (Not, as some would have it, “Updates on a roll of 18+ on 2D10”) A big part of the feel of “Old School” is “Anything that’s cool is included”, … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 5 And so, at long last — and thanks to someone actually asking for it — we get to Level 5 of my walk through the dire and dread pages of the Necromican (note: Not Necronomicon), a … Continue reading →
Honestly, this is sort of being posted because I don’t like long stretches of “No posting”, not because I genuinely think it’s likely to be of interest to anyone. (Oh, BTW, the next stage of the Battlelords walkthrough is almost … Continue reading →
So I’ve started very casually puttering on “Stellar Battles”, enough to already know that if I finish it, it will be a bit different than “OSRIC in Spaaaaace”, thought it’s still going to draw from a lot of older design … Continue reading →
Just The Factors, Ma’am Last week, as you may recall, we left our intrepid heroine with a huge pile of really crappy stats. This week, we feed those crappy stats into a bunch of functions, equations, and what-not to produce … Continue reading →