Vote Old Skull Publishing! VOTE OSR!

So… The Ennies are here again! It’s like the biggest popularity contest of the RPG Industry. Who cares about that right?
We care. The OSR should care about it. It gives visibility for our favorite games and publishers. It earns recognition for our hobby and out community and style of play. And yes, it gives more money to authors and producers, which will allow them to produce more stuff and hire more people!

And you know… It’s always fun to see people who hate the OSR see how we are slowly taking more and more nominations and prizes each here!

So let’s see all the OSR stuff we have running for the Ennies this year! If I forget something, please let me know so I can add it to the list! Make sure to vote for them!

Best Adventure: The Dark of Hot Spring Islands

Best Aid/Accessory: Hex Kit

Best Art, Interior: Frostbitten and Mutilated

Best Cartography: The Midderlands – An OSR Setting & Bestiary

Best Electronic Book: Scenario from Ontario

Best Free Product: Vaginas are Magic

Best Game: Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG

Best Monster/Adversary: Frostbitten and Mutilated

Best Podcast: Rey and Kiel Can do!, Fear of the Black Dragon, Hobbs and Friends of the OSR.

Best Setting: Frostbitten and Mutilated

Best Writing: Frostbitten and Mutilated

Product of the Year: Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG, Frostbitten and Mutilated, The Dark of Hot Springs Island

Fan’s Favorite Publisher: Old Skull Publishing, Bloat’s Games, Gallant Knight Games, Goodman Games, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Frog God Games, Old House Rules.

So go to http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2018/ and vote OSR!!!

How to never describe a dungeon!

Artwork by Luigi Castellani I've heard it a thousand times. You probably heard it too. Some people , I don't know why, say that dungeons , especially large ones, are boring . The endless repetitions of rooms and corridors and having to choose to go left, right, north or south depresses them. I don't know why. Actually, I do know why. Because they don't really know how to run a dungeon in play. It seems easy, effortless. Just say what's in the room the PCs are in and where the passages going out of it go. But it's not. They get bored with the "you get to a intersection and there is a door to the north and two passages, one going east and one going west" because that's a terrible way of describing a dungeon environment and gives nothing really useful to the players to choose from. You never describe a dungeon like that . There's a lot more going on that we can initially see. A good referee will take all the context of what the dungeon w

My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter!

I can't believe I didn't post about it here! The Dead are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time are on Kickstarter right now! These are 3 complete games, made using the system of Electric Bastionland and Mausritter as the basis (and with some modifications to fit my vision for each of them). As with my games, they all come filled with many tools and tables to generate gaming content, adventures, locations, NPCs and much more. They are compact, easy to use, and equipped to provide you with years of entertainment! Here's a brief description of each of the games. The Dead Are Coming The first of them is called The Dead Are Coming, a minimalist, OSR style RPG about survival in a post-apocalyptic world where the dead have risen and other survivors can be much worse than the undead. Characters in this game are common people who have been struggling to survive, find their loved ones, keep them safe and just trying to keep living. They all carry resources like

Dark Streets & Darker Secrets - Complete Game Text

November was NaGaDeMon (National Game Design Month), and I decided to create an Action Horror RPG using my system (updated with all the modifications of Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells). Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, X-Files, The Chilling Tales of Sabrina, Grimm and many more TV Shows, comics and books, I quickly worte Dark Streets & Darker Secrets . It is written in a very direct and simple way, similar to Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells originally was, but with uodated rules and a lot of tools and tables to assist the Referee in creating adventures, NPCs, locations, artifacts, monsters and much more. The book itself will eventually be release in partnership with Gallant Knight Games , but the text is already written and ready to be used, so I am sharing it here with you all! There is no official character sheet yet. I am working on it. But a simple Index Card will work just as well! So here it is: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QlFYafvxvJAyk

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