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!!!

The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition

Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customize your campaign, keeping the style, simplicity and flexibility of the original game. Today I come to present my lateste addition to the draft, a new Archetype for those that want to insert some elements of more tradiotional fantasy into the game. The Faithful is an archetype inspired by the Cleric of more popular RPGs, but with some twist to fit SS&SS better. Following it, there is a sample "God" to use with it. The Faithful The gods have chosen you to represent them in the mortal realm, or at least that’s what you believe. Most of the priests, monks and shamans perform their rituals without any hope to get an answer from their patrons, but you know you are being listened to. Your patron, your god or your ancestors help you and those that they deem worthy through you. Your faith can actually operate miracles. ...

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...

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=1QlFYafvxv...

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