I'm fairly sure I'm missing some excellent free OSR resources with the list I have on the left side of this page. If you can think of more goodies to be grabbed, add it here and I'll expand the list. Heck, if we get enough stuff, I'll make multiple lists.
Don't limit yourself to purely OSR stuff either. If its good and free, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to convert it for use.
edit: Great feedback so far. I think I'll be breaking the list into 3 parts: Rules, Adventures and
Supplemental Resources, unless someone has another idea on how to do it.
Hmm, might go to a left / right sidebar format too.
K, keep adding to the list folks!
Feel free to link to my monster counters.
ReplyDeleteThey're free for everyone and anyone to use, but my blog doesn't get enough traffic for people to be aware of them.
Errant isnt in that list (though it is in the top bar, if you are using that justification, I don't know).
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to the free RPG Compendium put together by Chris.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't tell you if they are OSR compliant or not, they are just FREE.
http://www.homebrew.net/games/
@kelvingreen - awesome stuff! I'll be adding it
ReplyDelete@Greg Christopher - nope, its an over site. when I update the list(s) it will be added
@Padre - nice listing. I'll be borrowing some from that list it seems
My Labyrinth Lord (well, originally B/X D&D) free zine is at http://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/downloads-games/dodecahedron/
ReplyDeleteand there's a few LL adventures scattered around my blog too.
At my blog you can find links to free downloads of a couple of my mags (more supplements than games) as well as a basic version of Pars Fortuna and the full version of Mystery Men!
ReplyDeletehttp://matt-landofnod.blogspot.com/
I have two free OSR modules at my web site Foreverfreegames.org, FFG 3 is a greyhawk mod. and FFG 4 is a quick adventure mod.
ReplyDeleteIf we're not being limited to fantasy, I'd recommend my present obsession, Stars Without Number:
ReplyDeletehttp://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=86467&
If anyone's *GASP* not familiar with it yet, think Traveller except running with OD&D rules, full of sandboxy goodness and the most *useful* random world generation system I've yet seen in an SFRPG.
From the fantasy side, there's Kellri's AD&D Old School References:
http://kellri.blogspot.com/2008/07/cdd4-final-version-3.html
with monster statblocks, dungeon geomorphs, a spell reference, and an "Encounters Reference" that's really more like a updated version of Judge's Guild "Ready Ref Sheets", i.e. all the random tables a DM could ever want (maybe).
Also over at Kellri's is his Scifi City Blocks document:
http://kellri.truculent.org/Scifi%20City%20Blocks.pdf
which details locations and events suitable for fleshing out SF/cyberpunk cities.
And there's also Microlite 75:
http://www.retroroleplaying.com/content/microlite75
boiling the D20 SRD down to its bare bones and leaving a system suitable for OSR-ish roleplaying that's not just easy but all kindsa cool.
awesome stuff so far. much I knew about but either forgot or mentally misplaced. Still, some of this I never knew about. Gonna need to do some work it seems.
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Mazes and Minotaurs
ReplyDeletehttp://mazesandminotaurs.free.fr/revised.html
Myth & Magic
http://www.newhavengames.com/?page_id=23
Basic Fantasy RPG
www.basicfantasy.org/
Dungeonslayers
http://www.dungeonslayers.com/
Dark Dungeon
http://darkdungeonsblog.wordpress.com/
Let's see:
ReplyDeleteMutant Future free artless core rules:
http://www.goblinoidgames.com/GBD2001_no_art.zip
Mini Six core rules:
http://antipaladingames.com/Mini_Six.pdf
And Zak and James just posted this HUGE listing of all free adventures on the 'Net:
http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2011/06/all-of-free-adventures.html
It was nice of Zak to post this listing hours after my request. It a nice resource that I will borrow liberally from for my lists ;)
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