Simplify Light Tracking with Candlepower

Tracking the duration of light sources in a dungeon can be drag but maybe this simple system will LIGHTEN the burden...

Leaf from the Hours of Louis XII by Jean Bourdichon

Prestige Classes for Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Games

Prestige Classes were introduced in the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons as a new form of multiclassing. I always appreciated this concept but, unfortunately, not the execution. Here is my re-imagining of it for OSR style fantasy TTRPGs.

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Two Axis Reactions

Break up 2d6 Reaction rolls and look at each 1d6 result individually: one representing an emotional state and the other as an attitude.

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What's in a Name?

A good dictionary can be invaluable for inspiration when searching for a good name.

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Dungeon Defenses from the Perspective of their Inhabitants

What do dungeon defenses look like if we switch our POV to the creatures who live in the dungeon?

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On the borderlands between the mundane and fantastic

Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" and a landscape torn between our world and faerie with a borderland between them.

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Max Schödl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Deliverables for XP

In XP for gold, how does the party fence all their non-coin loot? Who’s buying this stuff?

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Thieves catch a break on the Isle of Dread

Isle of Dread illustrates a way to handle thief skills in the context of party play.

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