11/14/2022

Free GM Resource: The Gygax 75 Challenge

Free GM Resource: The Gygax 75 Challenge
This is a cool, Old-School 5 Week "Program" for building your own game world by Ray Otus. It's 40 pages and available to download as a full page and as a pre-formed booklet. It is also available for free, which of course we're all about with a Free GM Resource and has a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

About the Project/Program: "This workbook is based on an article written by Gary Gygax in 1975, less than 12 months after D&D was released. It encapsulates his thinking at the time about how to get your own D&D campaign world started. I have taken his general advice and parsed it out into achievable, bite-sized prompts & goals for a week-by-week program."

The Gygax 75 Challenge is available from Ray Otus' website and you can find it here or by clicking on the lead-in graphic.

11/07/2022

Free GM Resource: B2 Keep on the Borderlands Supplement

Free GM Resource: B2 Keep on the Borderlands Supplement

Today's Free GM Resource is a customized add-on/partial replacement for the venerable B2 Keep on the Borderlands. This 32 page supplement is available for the great low price of FREE on the D&D B/X Facebook group.

Created by Drew Day Williams, the whole idea comes from B2 itself: "This is a customized B2 Keep on the Borderlands, that I expanded into a full localized campaign. The instructions in the module indicate this is what one should do with B2, and so I did."

10/10/2022

PWYW: One Page Dungeon 2022 Compendium

PWYW: One Page Dungeon 2022 Compendium
It's that time of year again.....the 2022 One Page Dungeon is out, available through DriveThruRPG ($4.99) or Gumroad (PWYW).

This year's theme is "Wonder".

There are 84 entries, and worth a grab....I'll be getting mine off of DTRPG in a few...

9/12/2022

Free GM Resource: Custom Miniature Maker

Free GM Resource: Custom Miniature Maker
I'm of the opinion that one of the "big things" that's a game changer for the average GM is using a 3D printer. 

It's been my experience that most people see 3D printers as a means to directly create things they're already using, mostly minis and terrain. Heck, most of my .stl collection is either terrain or minis, and usually that's what you find when looking for files.

This is why I got a bit excited by Custom Miniature Maker because the files I saw were for tools to create some cool terrain instead of the terrain itself. They have a Patreon, which I did sign up on/for, but on their website they have a Custom Miniature Monday Mailing List. It's a bright green button about halfway down the page (actually shown twice)....the Patreon link is also a bright green button, so be careful of that.

Custom Miniature Maker Tools



7/11/2022

Free GM Resources: Full Thrust Project Continuum Game/Ruleset

Free GM Resources: Full Thrust Project Continuum Game/Ruleset
It isn't every day that I get to share a full-blown game as a Free GM Resource.

Full Thrust: Project Continuum is a SciFi Strategy Wargame. Not really my cup of tea, but I'm sure there are plenty who feel otherwise. A quick search says that Full Thrust is available for free, and I don't know how this version fits into the series, but the title page states they have proper permissions from the Copyright holders. It appears that this flavor is combination of two earlier rulesets with a generous helping of house rules.

Cool thing is, if you like what you see here, you can go straight to Ground Zero Games and pick up the earlier rulesets for free. GZG is the place you'll want to pick up *official* starship models. I'm guessing that's where they make their money, so that's a big part of why these rules are free.

7/04/2022

Free GM Resource: The Mines of Khunmar

Free GM Resource: The Mines of Khunmar
I've had this saved for a hot minute and just this morning managed to actually download and give a quick scan.

The Mines of Khunmar is a 400ish page adventure campaign that has been in a draft form since maybe 2017. I'll keep it simple....there is a LOT of meat on the bones here and you can get a lot of mileage out of downloading and using this setting location.

Seriously, do not take my word on it, download it and check for yourself.

Nothing to see here...(actually posting in a few)

Nothing to see here...(actually posting in a few)
This blog has really been on the back-burner for a while.....as they say "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Now I'm not going to promise to be back to posting on the regular, but mostly because that's more a "show, don't tell" kind of thing. I can tell my 12 13 readers that I'm fully moved into my new house, although I still have some furniture to get (tomorrow) and boxes to unpack, BUT I'm pretty much done with my work travel for the rest of the year. Moving into a new place and then being on the road for 2/3 of the time since puts a BIG strain on life in general.....


5/23/2022

Freebie HackMaster/OSR Mini Adventure

Freebie HackMaster/OSR Mini Adventure
When I get an opportunity to share some gaming goodness from friends of mine, or former acquaintances....hell, people I know even....I'm going to take it.

The other day I found out one of my old HackMaster buddies revamped one of his old blogs/websites that he had been using to host a toolkit/game aid for HackMaster (4th Edition). Recently he put up a short level 1 adventure for HackMaster that is easily convertible for 1st Edition or OSR.

How easy? Take off 20 hitpoints off the top of every monster and while you're at it ignore the ToP stat......should pretty much do it.

The Goblins is a short, 7 page adventure that pits the PCs against a group of Goblins with a mission....(as in the Goblins have a mission......). This adventure shows as having been available since 2019, but Steve just told me about it (albeit not directly) last week, and his site HMTK.com has a few other entries/goodies to read, so.........twofer?