I’ve Always Liked Redheads
With that as a given it is no surprise that the first campaign I attempted due to OSR inspiration used Basic Fantasy Roleplaying. Even now with Advanced Edition Characters I think BFRPG does a better...
View ArticleSwords of the Red Sun Monster Project
Rooting around so for something else I came across an old post by Jeff Rients listing the 65 monsters from Holmes D&D and it got me thinking. One thing generally recommended for making a campaign...
View ArticleRed Sun Day: Magical Weapons and Armor Alignment and Attunement
Under the Red Sun the imbuing of weapons and armor is a task for clerics instead of magic-users. The clerics draw the animating spirit of the item from the spiritual realm. One consequence of this is...
View ArticleMonday Pointers, Flogging Molly Edition, February 11, 2013
D4: One I Forgot Two weeks back when I did things I should have know about already I forgot Heroes & Other Worlds. A modern clone/descendant of The Fantasy Trip I don’t have it yet but it’s on my...
View ArticleClockworks
This page is part of the Swords of the Red Sun Monsters Project. The Cult of the Machine God excelled in creating mechanical monsters it used as servants, guardians, and on occasion assassins. I’ve...
View ArticleMonday Pointers 2013-02-25
D4: Roll When You Advance Zak has been creating alternate versions of the core classes (plus his own Alice) that don’t get new abilities on schedule but roll for them. So far he’s got fighters,...
View ArticleKickstarters
Tim Shorts did a review of his Kickstarter experience. I figured why not join the band wagon: Eldritch Skies did deliver although looking back I think it was somewhat late. I had honestly forgotten...
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How to do a Kickstarter…
The Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls Kickstarter funded, at just shy of 5x the target, on February 5th. This weekend’s update: We promised everyone (except the underappreciated $1 backers!) a postcard. Then...
View ArticleMonday Pointers, March 18, 2013 Edition
Wow did a lot of people post interesting stuff while I was on vacation: D4: Vampires of Mexico While the Rifts:2112 is a very different direction from my RDR ideas they’ve been worth reading. His ideas...
View ArticleMonday Pointer, March 25, 2013
D4: From Africa to the Stars Sine Nomine has just put out (to the supporters) The House of Bone and Amber. It was originally going to be Kevin’s entry to Raggi’s big adventure run. It instead became a...
View ArticleA-Z Blogging Challenge: Abolitionists of Tubman
One of the oldest sins in the Soul of Man is slavery. Consequently one of the oldest currents tapped into by clerics is opposition to it. The most common clerics under the Red Sun to tap into...
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A-Z Challenge Plan
Now that I’ve finally gotten my A post out on Monday some notes on my plan. For this year’s A-Z challenge I will be presenting information from my Swords of the Red Sun setting. In keeping with the...
View ArticleA-Z Challenge: Beggars of Baslim and Brewers of Papazian
Today we feature two more clerical orders of the Red Sun: the Beggars of Baslim and the Brewers of Papazian. This two work some of the oldest paths of the Soul of Man: the seeking of alms and...
View ArticleA-Z Blogging Challenge: Cultists
This page is part of the Swords of the Red Sun Monsters Project. They are the Swords of the Red Sun replacement for Holmes’s bandits. Lethargy and decadence are not man’s only response to the dying of...
View ArticleA-Z Challenge: Dragons
This page is part of the Swords of the Red Sun Monsters Project. The Hur Dragon replaces the Holmes Bronze dragon. Under the Red Sun dragons are most know as having been the backbone of the Last...
View ArticleDoing a Kickstarter Right 2: Majus
I’m a sucker for contemporary fantasy games. Despite not being a huge vampire fan I have both editions of the same named White Wolf game. I have nearly all of their new World of Darkness, a complete...
View ArticleSwords and Wizardry Appreciation Day
I had hoped to participate in Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day but the same forces of real life that destroyed my A-Z this year have gotten me here too. I got interested in S&W about the time...
View ArticleA is for Ability Generation
My favorite method of ability generation has traditionally been the one that Len Lekofka described in “Starting From Scratch” in Dragon #40 (interesting the first issue without “The” in the title on...
View ArticleMonday Pointers, June 3 2013
D4: The Implied Setting of the LBB Around 1980 after starting with Holmes and getting the PHB and MM I got the LBB and the supplements. I even got Outdoor Survival to do wilderness adventures. With the...
View ArticleDid OD&D Forbid Armor for Magic-Users?
Lately I’ve had some interest in actually running straight LBB Dungeons & Dragons and only adding items as they came up in play. As a result I’ve actually sat down and read my books for the first...
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