Resurrection!

Yes, I am back from the dead - and this blog is still alive and kicking!....ok, maybe whimpering, and struggling...but back none-the-less.

After a long hiatus from the RPG world, I am back, and eager to jump right back in to things.

I guess I will start off with what I have been reading, and what I have been doing with it;

• Fantasy Craft
• Talislanta - D20, and previous editions
• Adventurer, Conqueror, Kings
• Myth & Magic
• HackMaster
• GURPS
• Adventures Dark and Deep
• Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers
• Bare Bones Fantasy
• Basic Fantasy
• Basic Roleplaying
• D&D Rules Cyclopedia
• Dangers & Dweomers
• Dark Dungeons
• Dungeon Crawl Classics
• Dungeonslayers
• Elric!
• Labyrinth Lord
• Mazes & Minotaurs
• Monsters & Magic
• RuneQuest
• Swords & Sorcery

Just to name a few......

I have to say that I really like RPGs.  Even though they all have something great to offer, I think I am still settled with Labyrinth Lord, or Basic Fantasy..but truth be told, I have found enough nuggets of gold in everything I have read, that I will take what I like, and roll it all in to one rule.


Here are some of the pieces I have decided on;

1. Ascending armor class - cause it makes more sense to me. Not sure which one I pulled this from.
2. Hit points (still working it out, but almost done)
3. Magic will be spontaneous casting, and will be powered by spell points. No Vancian Magic. The Talislanta magic system, and Fantasy Craft is what I am reviewing now for inspiration. 
4. Poison saves
5. Weapon Mastery, and special benefits. This is from D&D Cyclopedia

 There are some other pieces floating around, but I am still banging them about. I think everything will start to come together when it is actually codified. Some things are great in theory, but stink in application.

More to come

My own version of OSR rules

Although I have been a bit quiet on the blog-front lately, it does not mean that I have not been active.  I have been pouring through all of the hard back books, and PDF's I own of various Fantasy RPG's, both old and new.  Each set of rules has something I like about it, and some things I do not.  

As I mentioned in a previous posting, I waffled on whether or not I would use Basic Fantasy, or Labyrinth Lord.  I finally decided on LL, as pretty much everything was in one book (If you do not consider AEC)

As I delved farther in to LL, I still found that I was referring back to Basic Fantasy, and other rules, to compare the Racial Traits, Spells, AC, etc… and as I was  constantly flipping back and forth between this set, and that set, I decided it would be so much easier if I just compiled everything I liked about all of the various rule sets, in to one.  And this is what I am going to do - take all the parts that I like, and put them in to one cover. This will be a mixture of old, and new ideas, with possibly even something new from my imagination.

I may be deluding myself, but I do not think that it will be that hard to do. Everything I am looking for is in OGL format, and should be pretty easy to cut-n-paste in to a word DOC.  Maybe the one thing that will hold me up is the formatting.  

This will probably turn out to be the ugliest baby on the block, but it will be my baby.

Ok, so why recreate the wheel, right? After careful thought (and realizing how much work is involved) I decided to stick with Basic Fantasy as the base, and just add in my house rules.

The most recent version of Basic Fantasy won me over.