Thanks to quarantine, I've had plenty of time to indulge in a project that has interested me for some time: a grand unified theory of RPG...
If I could combine a whole bunch of games to make the ideal OSR experience, here's how I would personally do it. SETTING: THE NIGHTMARES...
D10 VARIANT SKELETONS 1. Skeletons with bombs in their chests, coated with tar: they run and stick themselves to foes, then explode. 2....
I was curious tonight about what constituted a standard amount of treasure across a dungeon/module in the original Old School games, back...
As a follow-on to this popular post, here are twenty more rhyming riddles that I hope you will profit from reading. As before, the...
A D&D character I created has the trait, "I like to memorize poetry." And as soon as I chose this, I thought, "Uh-oh. I'd better write...
The original "John" (aka John the Cursed, aka Unwilling John, aka John of the Thousand Tasks) must have been a truly terrible person,...
We are all familiar with the bog-standard “magic missile” spell: a handful of comet-shaped bolts of white energy that stream from a...
Here are 20 classic rhyming-type riddles suitable for most fantasy games, in that they do not presume scientific knowledge (such as the...
MUMMEROY'S LAPIDARY BORROWING [Summons a 150-200 pound stone, temporarily. ] In the plainest terms, Mummeroy's Lapidary Borrowing summons...