Now that the home fantasy campaign has settled into playing through The Terror of Ettinmarsh, I’ve been taking some time to dig back into my gaming roots. This week has been dominated by a re-examination of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, often referred to as the 1st Edition. While I’ve flipped through the pages of the Players … Read More →
Mythras’ (the new name for RuneQuest 6th edition) latest addition is the “Classic Fantasy” supplement, available as a .PDF and soon to arrive in print. This might very well hit the sweet-spot in terms of fantasy roleplaying, offering a d100 approach to classic dungeoneering while also solving many of the problems I’ve always complained about with … Read More →
Although I was inspired by the RuneQuest character sheet created by Kevin Flynn, I have to say that I found it less than useful in play because the skills text was so incredibly small; it was also hard to figure out what each box was actually for. Thus, I’ve had a stab at designing a … Read More →
This week I received the .PDF files for RuneQuest Classic, which I wrote about a couple of months ago. Frankly, the files are lovely and I’ve been drawn back to reading them this weekend. In a stunning turn of events at the school roleplaying club, which currently has a dozen or so teenagers running two D&D games, … Read More →
