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 […]
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 […]
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 […]