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This is a great rules light percentile based system I used for a one shot with my regular group. It incorporates rules for everything you need wihle leaving out the parts that bog down roleplaying.
Characters have six Traits (your DnD Attributes) that you have to roll lower or equal to to succeed. There are only two universal skills: melee and shooting, each consisting of the average of two Traits added together, with a third skill (the Occupation Skill) being derived in the same manner for each player's occupation individually. Task resolution and combat are fast and intuitive, but still detailed enough so that you can do more-or-less complex actions (assisting, multi-attack, called shots, etc.). It comes with tables of gear (some purely narrative, some with mechanical effects) and weapon stats, which are important for my group, travel rules, status effects, etc.
Granted, not every detail is thought out perfectly, but easily allows you to adjust things on the fly or house rule t...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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I'm late to this party, but wanted to contribute to what I think is an excellent OSR role playing game, and setting.
I picked this up as an aid to Solo roleplaying before GMing my own group, and the final 16 pages are invaluable to that end. The penultimate 21 pages of adventure design are also packed with goodness. It crawled a little for me in the middle, reading the spells (more on that later), but other than that it's a very enjoyable read.
You can read the description for an idea of the setting, but I sell it as Conan the Barbarian + Big Trouble in Little China + Pirates of Dark Waters (the 90s cartoon). Crawford writes with wit and elegance, and explains the rules easily. His setting is such an interesting one (of course there's another source book), that in another time, another world, could have grown to rival the Forgotten Realm or Dark Sun.
So why 3/5? Two reasons but the first of them a bit silly.
I don't like the Spell Names. I said it would be silly...
Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!] |
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Last night I finished reading **Mythic Ireland** by *John Briquelet*. It is a fantastic collection of material on the ancient Irish that can be used in any campaign. It is written with statistics for Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls. However, since most of it is text and not stat-blocks, it is easily converted to any gaming system.
It includes a thorough section on how to play *ancient Irish professions* (such as the druids, fili/ bards, witches, warriors, etc.), material on the *Irish code of honor* and how to use it in a RPG campaign, *new magic* (such as the Cloak of the Dagda, and the Riastradh, which allows a caster to expefrience Cú Chulainn's Hulk-like "warp spasm", etc.), an overview of *Irish king and clan society,* an list of *commonly used items* for purchase (ranging from the traditional backpack to a Bodhran/ drum and gold torc), the role of *geasa/ taboos*, Irish *gods/ religion/ feasts*, *new creatures* in Mythic Ireland (e.g. the fae of the Courts of Light/ Dar...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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