Free OSR - Castles & Crusades Players Handbook (7th Printing)

Yesterday, I highlighted that Castles & Crusades was getting a Starter Box. I'd be remiss if I failed to mention that the C&C Players Handbook (7th Printing) is available at PWYW pricing. Grab a copy for free or add some coins to the tip jar - it's up to you.

A pillar of the table top RPG industry, Castles & Crusades embodies the spirit of the old-school gamer with the easy to use modern mechanics. The Players Handbook has all you need to get started in a wild ride of adventure!

It’s easy to learn attribute-based rules system allows players to choose among 13 archetypal character classes and 7 races to create their characters. Spells, equipment, fast-paced combat rules, and all essential information needed to play a game of Castles & Crusades is in this book.

Dice and Monsters & Treasure sold separately.

 

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Pre-Order - Castles & Crusades Starter Kit

I'm a huge fan of Castles & Crusades and have nearly every printing of the Player's Handbook and the C&C White Box. I'm all in on the Castles & Crusades Starter Kit.

With a regular price of 29.99, as a pre-order the Castles & Crusades Starter Kit is 24.99

In your hands you hold the very font of imagination, where all things can become real. Play as mighty warriors and weavers of powerful spells, face off against terrible dragons, giants, and monsters of lore. Win gold and glory, or die trying.

Castles & Crusades—the best in fantasy gaming is finally available in an introductory box set. Within this box, you will find 3 booklets specifically designed to help new players learn what a role playing game is, how to play and how to use Castles & Crusades to bring to life exciting adventures for you and your friends and family. You will learn how to create scenarios, people them with monsters and how to create characters to embark on unforgettable stories of high adventure.

Book 1 Character Creation is all about players, and includes an immersive and detailed example of play, where YOU get to join the fray without having to know anything in advance. It also teaches how to generate a character, how to inhabit the role of that character, how to equip, create descriptions and use that character’s abilities. With these rules, a character can be taken all the way from 1st to 6th level!

Booklet 2 Directing the Game is all about the Castle Keeper, the world builder. The Castle Keeper acts as the game’s referee and in Directing the Game you learn how to run the game, how to build your own fantasy world, and how to handle any situation.

Book 3 Into the Dark The final booklet is a full-blown adventure where the players test their mettle against a hideous giant and his goblin minions in a quest absolutely bursting at the seams with opportunities for new ideas and scenarios. Into the Dark is designed for three to eight 1st level characters.

The Starter Kit also includes characters sheets where you can track your character name, statistics, abilities, and equipment as well as PDF versions of all the books for you to use. 

Even a set of polyhedral dice are Included!! (actual dice may differ from art displayed)

This box set contains absolutely everything you need to learn, play, and master Castles & Crusades!

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Free OSR - Delving Deeper (White Box Clone)

My son! The Original White Box begat Swords & Wizardry, which itself begat the Swords & Wizardry White Box. Alas, by then, the Swords & Wizardry White Box had strayed too far from its source material, and this begat Delving Deeper, an attempt to be closer to the "true" White Box. So it is written.

Delving Deeper is a legal emulation of the original 1974 fantasy role-playing game published under the Open Game License. As well as being a game in its own right, Delving Deeper is also a legal platform for publishing supporting material compatible with the “Original Edition” games.

Why Original Edition?

0e games are accessible! A player needs to know so few rules that even a novice can immediately jump in and get involved. The rules themselves are coarse grained and uncomplicated which makes the mechanics easy to grasp, and game play fast.

Delving Deeper is pitched at just the right level of abstraction to facilitate dungeon, town, and wilderness exploration as well as combat scenarios from man-to-man duels to veritable battles involving superheroes, dragons, or scores of orcs. What might take hours to resolve with more “advanced” rules might take mere minutes to resolve in 0e.

 

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Bundle of Holding - Fantasy Sites and Scenes (Phil Reed)

It's no secret that I'm a massive fan of Phil Reed's work as an independent publisher of system-neutral RPG material. Phil likely is responsible for 10% or more of the Kickstarters I've backed (I am, sadly, a SuperBacker).

The Fantasy Sites & Scenes Bundle is a collection of many of Phil's Kickstarters with system-neutral GM-focused material.

Adventurer! This Fantasy Sites and Scenes Bundle presents system-neutral city and dungeon encounters from Philip Reed Games for any tabletop fantasy roleplaying game. Light your imagination with dozens of locations, characters, and encounters, and hundreds of rumors and magic items, that help you make any campaign city your own. Funded through just a few of Philip Reed's 104 Kickstarter campaigns (you read that right), these inspirational treasure chests of ideas fit easily in any setting above or below ground level.

For just US$14.95 you get all eight system-neutral gamemastering aids in our Fantasy Sites Collection (retail value $76) as DRM-free ebooks, including all three Fantasy City Sites and Scenes volumes – I, II, and III; The Book of Collected Rumors and The Book of Dungeon Encounters; and three little magic shops: Marco's Market of Magical Merchandise, Zeck's Shoppe of Riches, and Tischler's Tome of Treasures.

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Free RPG - Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition (Open d6)

I enjoyed the West End Games version of Star Wars decades ago. The inheritor of the mantle was the D6 System, which years later became an Open D6 System under the OGL.

Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition distills the Open D6 System into a mere 36-page document. All for the price of FREE!

Mini Six is a slimmed-down version of the original OpenD6 game system. It is a multi-genre RPG that focuses on handling action-oriented games with a light-to-medium amount of "crunch." It serves as a toolkit for designing your own games and has been used as the engine of several published games by third-parties through the use of the Open Game License.

The basic mechanics and character creation are covered in the first few pages. Stock NPCs, creatures, vehicles for a variety of genres, a simple magic system, optional rules, and conversion guidelines for mixing in standard OpenD6 materials round out the middle of the book.

Mini Six Bare Bones Edition finishes with five nearly ready to play mini-settings which showcase some of the possibilities of the system.

• Perdition: Space Cowboys surviving on the edge of the frontier.
• Rust Moon of Castia: Classic Fantasy
• Farnsley's Phantasm Investigations: Spook hunting in the Victorian Age.
• Precinct '77: Busting punks in an homage to 70's and 80's cop shows.
• Imperium in Revolt: Rebels against the Imperium in classic space op

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Bundle of Holding - Leagues of Adventure

Years ago, when I looked more closely at non-OSR Indi titles, I came across the Ubiquity System. To my eyes, it seemed like an even easier Savage Worlds-type system. But then my eyes wandered to other games, and I lost track of Ubiquity.

Well, Leagues of Adventure is powered by Ubiquity.

Adventurer! This new Leagues of Adventure Bundle presents Leagues of Adventure, the Ubiquity-based Victorian steampunk tabletop roleplaying game from Triple Ace Games. In the Age of Exploration, a semi-fictitious 1890s right out of Sherlock Holmes and Jules Verne, globetrotting scientists, crazed inventors, and daring explorers equipped with airships, mole machines, and Weird Science gadgets venture across the world and to other planets to uncover forgotten cities and civilizations, map the wilderness, and defeat nefarious villains in bare-knuckled Victorian action. The flexible and cinematic Ubiquity rules (Hollow Earth Expedition, Space: 1889) use an easy dice-pool system that puts your player characters in the spotlight, lets them invent their own gadgets, and keeps the story moving fast. Create your own League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen!

For just US$12.95 you get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Leagues of Adventure Core Rules; Dramatis Personae, an array of more than 100 pre-generated characters; the Weird Science Compendium; and the Globetrotters' Guide to London.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.20, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with fifteen more titles worth an additional $87, including The Great Campaign and the lunar adventure Tides of War (the "Black Editions" free of AI-generated art); Letters From the Leagues Vol. 1, V2, V3, and V4; and nine Globetrotters' Guides: Expeditions, Unusual Places, The Ancient World, The Old World, The New World, Cads & Cultists, the Cads Appendix, Dramatic Developments, and Miscellanea.

 

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Deal of the Day - Atomic Punk 2240

Looking for a Fallout RPG with the serial numbers scratched off from an OSR game designer who avoids using an OSR ruleset this time around?

Atomic Punk 2240 may just be up your alley. It's today's deal of the day, and it's marked down to 8.99 until tomorrow morning.

Atomic Punk 2240 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set in an alternate future where, in the 1990s, the nuclear holocaust occurred. The wasteland is full of gangs, raiders, mutants, power-hungry factions, and the player characters themselves, who may or may not be any number of these types.

Atomic Punk 2240 is a 2d10 system where, generally, there is a target number of 11. All rolls are modified by difficulty modifiers, weapon and armor match-ups (references on a weapon vs armor table), and other factors.

 

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