Check out the latest updates from Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, OSR, Cortex, DeScriptors, and other releases by Tim Bannock.
Coinciding with the (new-to-me!) release of the Cortex Directory which features official and pro/semi-pro published Cortex games, I’ve turned the amazing Cortex Hack Database by Kamala Arroyo into a website where you can sort, find, and submit your own hacks!
Check it out here.
Ever run a 5th Edition game and wonder where an important GM-facing rule is? Ever design a dungeon-crawl and grimace when all the PCs can see in the dark unaided? What are torches for in this edition, anyway?
Throw out your game master guide* and use this instead! Treasures Just Beyond – O5R GM Hack is here for you!
Treasures Just Beyond – O5R GM Hack is a super handy, 28-page reference guide and crawling-rules compilation formatted to be printed out as an A5 booklet: just open it in Adobe Acrobat, select Booklet, print, and staple! (You’ll want a long arm stapler: buy, barter for, or steal** one today!)
It compiles the best, fastest route to getting PCs playing in that “old-school” style where light, inventory, and careful exploration matters. On the GM’s side, it’s got all the hazards, trap rules, and object interaction mechanics you’ll ever need. Plus, it features robust social interaction and exploration rules, as well as some new twists on monster rules, all packed into a super-useful, reference-friendly layout.
In these pages, you’ll get killer new “house” rules and references like these:
With Treasures Just Beyond – O5R GM Hack, everything you need to give your 5th Edition games that old-school feel, and run it smoothly, is right at your fingertips!
*Don’t throw it out! It’s got all the cool magic items in it, and vaguely okay downtime rules!
**Don’t steal stuff!
Cover image by Dean Spencer. All Rights Reserved.
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Just a quick but important announcement today as the DeScriptors RPG has launched its own website: DeScriptorsRPG.com! Complete with (revised) one-page rules and an extended example of play, the website allows you to reference and play the latest iteration of the DeScriptors RPG rules entirely online.
For those of you new to the game, it was created by Matthew Bannock and first published as a one-page rule set and implied system in 2015. It has since been expanded with a bevy of optional and variant rules to show its flexibility and multi-genre nature, and has received over a half-dozen sample settings, each one featuring scenario ideas, optional rules and scenes, and pregenerated characters. Fully-fledged fantasy settings and adventures exist in the form of the Dalentown setting’s DeScriptors conversions.
Already familiar with the diceless word game RPG driven by character arcs? The website features re-written and clarified rules, plus a more heavily commented version of the Example of Play from DeScriptors: Definitive Edition. These clarifications and expansions will find themselves added to revised versions of our digital releases, so if you already own ’em, you’ll get the updates there, too! And if all goes well, you may very well see vastly improved versions coming down the road. We have a lot in store for the future of DeScriptors!
Check out DeScriptorsRPG.com today and share it with your friends because everyone loves a free tabletop role-playing game! Expect much more coming down the road very, very soon.
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Out now on DriveThruRPG and itch.io is the long-awaited sequel to DD-01: a brand new house-of-horrors style adventure for OSR games in the vein of OD&D and AD&D 1st edition.
This standalone adventure features the manor house of a noble spellcaster, corrupted by a mysterious influence. The Brightwell family goes insane, subjugating or killing their mercenary guards and servants, and performing all manner of horrific ooze-related experiments. Their ultimate goal: to eventually build an army of slime-infused monstrosities to threaten the nearby settlements!
The 5th Edition version of DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor has been out for a hot minute, and right on its heels is the OSR version compatible with B/X and AD&D-style OSR games!
Subscribe for an email update here at the site, or check itch.io and DriveThruRPG early on Tuesday morning, March 23rd, as the new version drops! Built for compatibility with Old School Essentials, Swords & Wizardry, OSRIC, and all your favorite retro-clones!
If you like DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor, check out the start of this storyline in DD-01 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. You can also pick up the setting — including not one but three settlements full of plot hooks, NPCs, new monsters, and more — in Adventures in Dalentown. Both can be found at DTRPG and itch.io; links are in our shop!
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