Product Update

Been working a bit on some Pathfinder stuff, a couple of new classes, a really cool book of encounters (which will also be Old School) and a big book of cool spells and such (which may also be Old Schooled)

They aren't ready yet but there has been progress.

Stay Tuned and thanks for reading my blog.

Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day in the States.

While this blog is a-political I still have to say, bless those who gave their lives to defend my liberty.

And the Worlds They Come... Another Creation Dariel

Just had another idea for a game world, Dariel --

Dariel is a world where a single monotheistic God is the creator of the world. This being "The One" created the universe and everything in it and is the source of all good. I imagine the Church as Celtic Catholicism with a hint of Wicca and Gnosticism.

Basic teachings, those who do evil unless granted The Divine Mercy will pay for it on Dariel (sinners reincarnate till they are worthy of Heaven) or if its bad enough in Hell where they suffer till the sin is burned off. There are of course a lot of local variants and the usual interfaith warfare just to keep things interesting.

The real enemy of mankind are the spiritual forces that plague him. These include the Rebels and the Fallen who desire to make Dariel into a reflection of the Hells they inhabit and the Fae.

The Fae are soulless immortal creatures who can only gain a soul by interbreeding with humans or by being around them for a long time.

What makes this world unique is that evil is objective real and detectable so for example, if a Paladin finds some Orc babies, its lawful and good to painless destroy them. They are soulless and will always do evil as they have no free will. Evil acts can leave lingering traces and so on.

I imagine some limits on classes, all the mundane classes, a variant ranger without spells and magic classes limited to Cleric, Paladin and Wizard.

"Free" races with Souls include Human, Half Elf, Dhampir, Shifter, and Half Orc. If I decide to use them possibly Halflings and some Dwarves too. If I were to run it the system would probably be Pathfinder.

THE LAND OF NOD #1 is out

Here.

This is an entirely excellent campaign primer/house rules document/magazine aimed at Swords and Wizardry (more or less)

Man, if these three don't keep y'all busy, nothing will.

LotFP: Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Version 0.7 is out

Its like a surfeit of old school goodness coming out all at once.

You can get this cool thing here

Blackleaf Needs You!

Dark Dungeons, the Cyclopedia retro-clone has been released. Like a lot of the magnificent generous people in the OSR its been made available as a free PDF .You can also get it in print, at cost .

So shoo!, what are you hanging around here for? Go get it.

Another World I Made

I went through some of my files this morning and to my surprise found a world I had made and forgotten about. Seeing that, I suspect its a good thing I am not a major God, I'd be a rather forgetful one.

Anyway the world in question was for 3x, Inspired by Runequest (where everyone used magic) The rules were a mishmash of my Low Magic House Rules Pathfinder and Thieves World with the cantrip system lifted whole cloth from standard D&D.

In the setting, there was an event called the Leveling that destroyed all the magic of the world above L0 spells. Magic items from before the event still worked fine but spells were no longer available. However as a consequence anyone could use any cantrip they knew at will. Healing Cantrips were gone except for Pathfinder ones to maintain game balance.

As a kicker PC's started with INT mod cantrips, more with certain backgrounds.And pretty much that was all there was.

I never got to run it which is too bad. I kinda thought it would have been fun.