Infocyde's RPG Blog

 I've seen a lot of 1 page or 4 page RPGs out there.  Some of them are pretty neat.  Most of them I would not consider complete RPGs.  Why?  I started thinking about that.  What makes a complete RPG anyway?  Here are some bullet points to be flushed out later. Complete mechanics: Character creation, character advancement, and action resolution rules. Equipment List Spell List (if applicable) Vehicle/Animal rules,Travel, Encumbrance, Food mechanics. Fiend / Antagonist Folio Samples of how to use all of the above That is about it.  Note the first bullet point is the core game.  How do I do x?  How do I know if I can do x?    I'll flush this out later.  But those I think are the core.

Looking for a free OSR game with a Greek Mythos theme? Look no further than MAZES and MINOTAURS.  Three core books plus a companion, all free pdfs. http://mazesandminotaurs.free.fr/revised.html

Not with a bang but with a whimper. So a group of friends and my wife and I have had a gaming going for about four years now. We started off playing a custom made OSR D&D game designed by my friend Joe called Mythos Archanum.  We did that for about six months but Joe ended up moving.  The we jumped around playing various Savage Worlds setting for about six months.  Then my friend Rob took over and lead us on a D&D 5th Edition game that went 18 levels and ran for over a year and a half.  These last six months we have been kind of jumping around but we ended up playing a pretty fun Fate Core game lead by my friend Caleb set in an alternative earth where the Nazi's were defeated in WWII but not before opening up all sorts of occultic gates and ruining much of the world. Tonight was going to be one of our last games.  The last month has been hard as my wife moved for a job and I'm in the process of packing and trying to move to be with her.  So I've missed a few ses

I'm playing the Last Unicorn version of Star Trek Next Generation. Up front I'm not really a Star Trek Next Generation fan. I'm not anti the series, when I felt like vegging in front of the tube I would watch it. That being said, a friend busted out Last Unicorn's version of the Next Generation Star Trek RPG and we have have about four sessions playing. I actually have had a lot of fun. We play, well, in a way that is a little closer to the 60ies series than Next Gen, but the rules don't really care. We have battled Romulans in the Neutral Zone, been punished doing "team building" exercises on the Holo Deck with our captain's rival operating the simulation and throwing us lot's of curves, failed the prime directive by choosing a life over non-intervention, gone on away missions that went south, and found out that setting a type three phaser to max is a really, really bad idea, generally speaking. The books are expensive, but if you can find

Four Characters- Sirul Forsal - A former slave turned sailor Auslock - A thief and an artificer Crongor - A barbarian gladiator who is now the city executioner Sargon - A noble stygian sorcerer Backdrop All in the city of wicked and corrupt city Artu-Khan that is suffering from a horrible plague outbreak.  Sirus's boat becomes infected, and his captain starts burning crew members both infected and not so Surus leaves his ship and heads towards the Golden Arse Inn to look for another captain to sail with. Auslock's employer, Sargon's brother, died of the plague and he is looking for both another employer and a way out of the city.  Sargon knows of Auslock, and seeks him help to see if he can help him escape the city as well.  Sargon's patrion, a rich noble woman, thinks Sargon can save her from the plague and will not allow him to leave her side.  She sends two guards with Sargon and Asulock as they seek healing herbs as a ruse to get away from the rich noblew

I, like most role playing geeks, got my start with role playing games using Dungeons and Dragons.  Before I ever played I used to as a kid walk into hobby and toy stores and wonder, "How do these games work?"  I remember looking at a Ral Partha minutes set box and looking at the artwork and thinking "Do you go to these worlds, how is that possible?". My father caught my interest and bought me a Dungeons and Dragons red box basic set.  I was fascinated and set out to read the rules.  Mind you at this point in life I had only ever read maybe one novel of any length and the rules were a bit much for me.  I loved the artwork and managed on my own to role up a few player characters, but with no one to play with I shelved the book for a couple of months and didn't think more about it. Then my friend Dale and his brother Kyle came over one night while our parents did their monthly bridge game.  Dale had figured out the rules enough to play and had his brother and o