Into the Haunted Lands

I ran a fun game of Crypts and Things Remastered with my home group yesterday. Play tested the Haunted Lands, a mini-sandbox weirdland that will be in the main rulebook which along with the Halls of Nizurn Thun, which should be familiar to owners of 1st edition, and the new city adventure setting Port Blackmire is part of a trio of introductory adventures.

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Print off of the finished game

There was much fun outwitting Robotic Mummies, a Time Traveling Space Pharaoh, a Khaos Sorceress and her Khaos Mutant brood, not getting involved in local politics (yet still using them to their advantage), not entertaining the despair of an angst filled black robed Sorcerer complete withΒ  skull of his victim. All this even though the players had decided to fly over the undead infested village which was a major encounter area in the sandbox. But hey that’s the joy of sandboxes seeing players have the freedom to do what ever they want. Especially fun when you are the player of a winged Lizard Person and you get to exploit that power πŸ™‚

I had the strange one of running the end of scenario combat more or less between the npcs present, since the pcs had manipulated everyone into a fight while they watched (and negotiated) from a safe location. One of the players afterwards told me that recently he had decided to talk his way out of situations more πŸ™‚ All in all this was all the weird strange swords and sorcery action that I hoped it would be when I wrote the adventure πŸ™‚

The characters

The characters

Oh if you missed the last Kickstarter update, I’ve finished the layout phase of production and I’m currently topping and tailing the pdf (oh the joys of page cross refences and indexing!) before passing it over for a final check and then release to backers within the next couple of weeks πŸ™‚

UK OSR update July 2016

More stuff coming from the UK OSR out despite distractions of the footy and Wimbledon on the TV…

Out of the Pit the seminal Advanced Fighting Fantasy creature book now available as a pdf via DrivethruRpg.com. The rather sparse description on the product page doesn’t do the book justice. It was originally published in the 1980s during the Fighting Fantasy boom and contains over 250 monsters from the classic FF books.

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Stellar Adventures, the Sci-Fi Advanced Fighting Fantasy variant by Arion Games has now funded, with 8 days to go at time of writing.

In Darkest Warrens – a pay what you want rules light game by Trollish Delver Games is now available, from the blurb it’s ” a minimalist fantasy roleplaying game whose rules cover two pages, including a bestiary and introductory adventure. All you need is some six-sided dice, paper, pencils and, of course, a bunch of buddies to play with. ”

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The Hex Hack by Dog Eared Games is available for use with the Black Hack and other OSR games. Also they’ve added a supplement for their Jack Hack Black Hack supplement ( keeping up with me at the back there? ) called The Penny Black which adds in elements from a certain dreadful TV show.

Also those cunning chaps over at The Design Mechanism have just given an update about the end of the RuneQuest license and the transition to Mythras…

Missed anything? Just let me know in the comments and I’ll add it here or in the next update πŸ™‚