Do you want to play something like Warhammer Fantasy without all of the endless rules and need to have specific minis to put onto the field of play? Sword Weirdos might be for you. Coming in at 24 pages and a Mithral Best Seller at DTRPG, Swords ...
New Big Dragon Games Unlimited used to be a leading provider of high-quality, old-school RPG materials. Wherin Evil Lies (also known as Dragon Horde Zine V2, #1) is chock-full of classes, spells, magic items, monsters, adventure, and more for your B ...
Sure, other books talk about hexcrawls (I've even done a video on it - What is a HexCrawl and Why Should You Run One?), some folks just don't have much experience playing in a hexcrawl, let alone running one. That's where Hexcrawl Basics comes into ...
Wow! Talk about nostalgia. I'm relatively sure I have a print copy of the Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay on one of my bookshelves. I remember when Pete was putting this together, and he inquired about including a Tenkar's Tavern in the book - there ...
So, you say you want to play an RPG set in WWII, where you play special forces, like the SAS or The Dirty Dozen, but you want it to use a familiar system, not too complicated, based on Swords & Wizardry? You say you want the core rules to be free,
Sometimes something is "one and done," and all you can think is - "more would have been awesome!" That's how I view The Wizard's Scroll, a zine for Swords & Wizardry, but really usable as is with any OSR game. Look at the contents squeezed into 50 ...
Kevin Crawford and his Sine Nomine publishing house are best known for Stars Without Number, Kevin's behemoth of an OSR ruleset that showed you didn't need the OGL and the 3.x SRD to create OSR-compatible material. Kevin plowed his own path, and it ...
Nominally written for Swords & Wizardry, Hack! Firearms should be suitable for ANY OSR game (and possibly, with some tweaking, 5e. Written by the same team (Straycouches Press) behind the CRAWL! Zine for the DCC RPG. Do you want to bring firearms ...
OSRIC has a weird history in the OSR. Originally conceived as a tool to help 3rd party publishers release material for AD&D 1e, it soon became apparent that folks were actually using the new presentation of the classic ruleset at the table. I've done ...
The Universal NPC Emulator was suggested by one of The Tavern's YouTube viewers, and all I can say is, where has this been for my entire career as a DM? It's short, clocking in at 18 pages, of which 8 contain the tables you'll refer to.When I discuss ...