During my last campaign I started with only the traditional classes available in B/X (Fighter, Cleric, Magic-User, Thief, Dwarf, Elf, and my version of the Halfling, the Ratling). As time wore on, I ended up creating multiple new classes, but they all came about as versions of the existing classes […]
For part four of my four part series going over my Overland Travel house rules, I’m going to discuss the equipment used for traveling through the wilderness. I’ll go over different items, how they work in this system, and what kind of choices players might wish to make in different […]
I have never liked halflings or their equivalent races. I tend to prefer my games slightly more on the serious and grim or even sometimes heroic side rather than be lighthearted, and halflings have always felt a little silly to me. When I was running dwimmermount, I experimented with replacing […]
I’ve been thinking a bit about how I want to handle Magic-Users in my next campaign. In my current game I have a few specialist Magic-Users that get access to unique spells and I was thinking of codifying this a little bit more for my next game. However, instead of […]
Continuing along with my series on the house rule supplement I use for overland travel, we come to part four, where I’ll go over the rules for making camp (shown at the bottom). Again, my design goal here was to create interesting choices for players by limiting what they’re able […]
In my game, I’ve consistently had issues running travel by the book. Rolling for characters getting lost, foraging, wandering monsters (and then to determine the kind of wandering monster, surprise, whether it’s a lair, etc.) slows my game to a crawl, and more importantly, doesn’t make overland travel feel like […]
Today I have the next article in my series examining my house rule supplements. I’ll be going over my Overland Travel rules and the consequences those rules create during play. I have quite a lot of ground to cover with this supplement so I’ll be splitting it up into multiple […]
Continuing on in my series of posts examining my house rule supplements, today I’ll be going over my rules for the availability of goods and services. The lack of inclusion of any sort of guidelines for what goods and services should be available in a given settlement is probably the […]
As I mentioned in my previous post House Rules, I’ll be going through most of my supplements one by one with explanations, tips and reasonings for some of my decisions. Today I’m going to start with my equipment rules and the custom character sheets I use. A lot of this […]
I’m starting this blog, among other reasons, as a place to store and consolidate some of the house rules I’ve been sharing. So to get started I’m gonna link a few different small supplemental systems for any OSR retro-clone (but especially those based on B/X.) In the upcoming days/weeks I’ll […]