Day 20 of my Adventure Calendar. For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Image: Samurai Trees by Alex Nice Learning new skills in Block, Dodge, Parry is about finding new trainers. However, historically, sword training was also formalized within schools … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #20: Schools of Swordplay
Day 16 of my Adventure Calendar. For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Block, Dodge, Parry features 3 main damage types for martial damage, just like D&D 5e. These are: Piercing. Rolling the maximum value on your damage roll makes … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #16: A Mixture of Monsters
Day 13 of my Adventure Calendar. For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Image: Sekiro by Hakob Minasian Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has a really cool weapon: The Mortal Blade, a weapon that can kill immortal beings forever. You die … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #13: The Mortal Blade
Day 8 of my Adventure Calendar. For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Image: Duel by Antonio J. Manzanedo Block, Dodge, Parry has duel rules. However, we can make the challenge before the actual duel a thing too. After all, … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #8: Challenging for a Duel
Day 6 of my Adventure Calendar! For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Image: Screenshot from En Garde by Fireplace Games Today, a little 5e homebrew rule that I used in a campaign. It might work for OSE etc. as … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #6: Flynning
Day 5 of my Adventure Calendar! For 24 days, up until Christmas, I plan to release a lil bit of RPG content. Want to join as well? Join the jam! Image: A composite of Unsplash images by Colin Lloyd and Tengyart Okay, I'm really excited for this one. You know how sometimes in movies, two combatants face … Continue reading Adventure Calendar #5: The Battle in the Mind’s Eye
📖 This post is an expansion on my previous post.Read Mass Combat: Expanding the Army Rating system from Barbarians of Lemuria for the full context! Image credit: Casualty of War by Camille Sule I've added a casualty calculator to my original worksheet. This means you can work rising casualties into your calculation! In this case, … Continue reading Mass Combat Expansion: Casualties
My drafts are filled with posts about mass combat systems. There are various ideas I really like (such as an infantry>cavalry>archery counter triangle, moving troops, Into the Odd warbands etc. etc.), but I can't really get them to stick together in a way that I liked. That's when I gave the Army Rating system from … Continue reading Mass Combat: Expanding the Army Rating system from Barbarians of Lemuria
I'm a big fan of Emmy Allen's Duels in OSR rules, so I made a small adaption for it to suit a game I'm running at the moment. Image: Senat by Pascal Quidault I also love OSR tendencies to just leave out any dialogue- or social stats & mechanics, leaving it to the actual players … Continue reading Hostile Negotiations: A Conversational System for Into The Odd/Cairn
This is an attempt to bring the risk-management decisions of my Dark Souls inspired combat to a more contemporary form of fisticuffs. Be it for Old West, modern-day, cyberpunk, or sci-fi type adventures, I hope these rules give you some bang for your buck (it helps that it's free!) Image: Oscillator by Kevin Moran What … Continue reading There Was A Firefight: Gunfighting Rules for Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland/Cairn
