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Try This Inventory Slot System for Dungeons & Dragons Today

It’s been a long time since I posted anything to this website, but if you follow me on social I’ve been tied up with two things (gaming related, anyway): creating a customized version of the FASERIP system by way of the OGL, used in the MCU-inspired actual play podcast Let’s Start Over, Shall We?, and gearing up for a megadungeon crawling 5th edition D&D campaign with some old friends to introduce (at least one of) their children to roleplaying games!

It’s that second one that influences today’s post. I’ll be providing a fully detailed — but not yet playtested — inventory slot management system for adventurers. It also takes into account porters/quartermasters, draft animals, and towed storage like wagons and carts. It’s based on 5th Edition for some numbers (like a draft horse’s Strength score, for example), but can be pretty easily ported to any D&D-adjacent or OSR game.

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DeScriptors RPG is Leveling Up

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.

What is DeScriptors RPG?

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.

New, Improved & Free to Play!

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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A New House of Horrors Adventure Has Arrived: DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for OSR Games

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.

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor

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!

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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for OSR Games Out Tuesday

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!

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor

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!

Adventure Features

  • An adventure for 4-6 adventurers of levels 10-14 in your favorite OSR system of choice.
  • An easy reference layout, with each dungeon on just a couple page spreads, and concise descriptive text to make it easier to run on game day!
  • Monsters, magic items, NPCs, and preparation lists are all in a separate, printer-friendly appendix PDF to make your life easier! You can even cut up the magic items into individual reference cards for the players.
  • SRD links throughout the text so you can reference spells, monsters, items, and more. Don’t like our layout? Snag the SRD stats and do with them what you will!
  • Monsters and magic items pulled from a huge variety of OGL sources, as well as some newly created ones. Don’t like the adventure? Steal the monsters and magic items and make your own!
  • All the stats you need to run the adventure are provided; no need to hunt down other books.
  • Cartography by Dyson Logos, but with some artful Photoshopping to give each a floor of the manor a unique layout.
  • Separate PDF with all keyed and unkeyed maps, so you can print them or extract them for virtual tabletop play.

Coming Tuesday 3/23 to both itch.io and DriveThruRPG!


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!

Get the Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle at itchio Now!

The Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle has gone live, featuring our game, DeScriptors: Definitive Edition!

Per the bundle page:

Want to take a dip into indie tabletop, but you’re not sure where to start?

 

This bundle contains 45 standalone titles from 33 indie creators.

Everything in here is designed to be easy to pick up and play, and you can use these games for one-shots, mini-campaigns, or to fill in whenever you’re down a person for your regular campaign.

There’s even three worldbuilding guides and a dungeon-crawling computer RPG mixed in.

This bundle helps support 33 indie tabletop creators to make fun (and sometimes weird and experimental!) games.

 

The titles in this collection range from tactical action to mellow and chill, with lots of options in between.

Get fully equipped today with the One-Shot Megabundle!

Spearheaded by Sprinting Owl Designs, this incredible bundle of games is only $33 — that’s $1 per creator — but nets you 45 unique, standalone titles by all sorts of amazing indie tabletop role-playing game designers. As mentioned, it even mixes things up with worldbuilding guides and a dungeon-crawler video game, so there’s literally something for everyone.

Pick  up the Tabletop One-Shot Megabundleup now!


If you enjoyed this article, please like, comment, and share! Use the widgets to subscribe to get an email as soon as I publish something new, or check out my stuff on itch.io or in my shop, or at DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG,. I really appreciate your support.

Happy gaming to ya!

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