Over the weekend I began to play an out-of-print Hasbro game with my 8-year-old called Heroscape (generic example of play/game demo). during play my daughter asked a question that never crossed my mind, never crossed any thoughts from when I was big into the game back in the early 2000s. My daughter likes to rock climb, […]
It has been awhile since I’ve made a magic item so this is a nice change in a while. The following I cannot take complete credit for as my daughter is actually where the idea came from during last night’s Hero Kids game. On a side-note, playing a tabletop game at a Books-a-Million at 2100 […]
On the weekend of November 8th (specially the 9th) I will be running two games for the Swords & Wizardry OSR system at MEPAcon. If anyone is in the Northeastern PA or nearby New York and New Jersey and isn’t doing anything for that weekend. From 9 am to 12 noon on the 9th I […]
I’ve been wanting to make these guys for awhile, now I am and I am gleefully waiting to sic these little guys on my daughter and her friends! ~*~ Ragmen “Never forget; never deny the existence of the ragmen. Born of fear and madness they groan and crawl. Born of madness they wrap and entwine. […]
It is no secret that the majority of the gaming that I do is with my daughter and her friends. With few exceptions I am the referee or game master and as such we typically play S&W core or Whitebox or some amalgamation of the two that I happen to be experimenting with. However, there […]
So the next five-minute adventure is a pretty big one, with a estimated 10 pages of adventure. Compared to my previous 4 adventures (4 you ask?) which topped out at 5 to 6 pages this is quite a leap forward. The more I work on these adventures with the generic “Town” the more the place […]
Time to bark again for a kickstarter project. This one is already successful, but given the pedigree of the designers I would venture to look into it. The game boosts to be Salvatore and son’s take on old school game mechanics set in the world of R.A. Salvatore’s “Demon Wars” novels which are really great […]
The third issue of +Wayne Rossi’s OSR magazine “Dungeon Crawl” has been released and features new magic items, encounters, dungeons and most importantly (to me) my Blood Witch class for Swords & Wizardry! I just finished printing out my .pdf copy of the magazine so expect a review sometime between now and Tuesday. While you […]
Fear Doirche Hit Dice: 10 + 6 Armor Class: 1[19] Attacks: Weapon (Fae Great Sword (unique), 2d10+4) Saving Throw: 5 Move: 12[60’] Special: Fae Step, Greater Immortal Fae, Iron Resistance Challenge Level/Experience: 13/2,300 The Queens of the Au-Sidhe and Un-Sidh courts have many agents in both the mortal and immortal realms. However, these agents pale […]
The new Gamers movie “Hands of Fate” has been released and is avialable free or $10 for an HD download. Go watch it now! The Three Gamers films have been some of the best examples of Roleplaying life and should entertain all who have an interest in the hobby! http://watchthegamers.com/
