I was searching around DTRPG when I stumbled across the Classic Traveller Facsimile Edition, priced for Free (and only 9 bucks in Print). Everyone should have a PDF of Classic Traveller, especially at this pricing! ;)
This is the original text of the 1981 edition of Classic Traveller based on page image Scans.
It includes Books 1-2-3, with errata and corrections inserted (where possible; and additional material in an errata appendix). This text is essentially an errata corrected edition faithful to the original Classic Traveller of the early 1980's.
The PDF has been OCR'ed. Margins are upgraded to 6x9 (from 5-1/2 x 8-1/2) for better margins.
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The various Cepheus releases have always been top-notch. Built off of the Mongoose Traveller SRD and the OGL, Cepheus has a very active community of creators.
This universal science fiction RPG allows players and Game Master to emulate most kinds of sci-fi gaming, from time travel or near future cyberpunk, to space opera; from modern-day Solar System exploration to a far future that enjoys antimatter power, matter transportation and food replicators. As much attention is given to low-tech societies as mid-tech and far future, high-tech societies. You'll find options for gunpowder weapons, disintegrators, fusion power, portable shield generators, flint tool production and using beasts of burden. The scope of Cepheus Universal is huge.
The 2D6-based Cepheus rules are adaptable but not complex, and easy enough for players new to sci-fi gaming (or to roleplaying in general). Character creation is purely by design, and features a life path system that adds depth and which connects them to the setting. Create a character in 5 minutes or less.
Packed with material that you can use to build your setting, or adapt your favourite setting from a novel or movie, it includes systems for building not just characters, but starships, animals, robots, vehicles, AI machines, star systems, spacesuits … you name it. Pick the parts you need to build the type of setting you desire. No setting is included, but three examples are provided to give you an idea of the scope of these rules.
Note that the core part of these rules previously featured in Zozer Game’s Hostile and Modern War RPGs. The book contains no AI art. Also available for Cepheus Universal:
Fast Magic - An improvised magic sysyem for use in your setting.
Godstar - A feudal sci-fi setting on a desert planet, full of intrigue and danger.
Player's Book - All the essential sections from the rulebook, for players use.
Street Knight - 80s crime fighting with cyberagents and supercars.
Sundivers - Far-future space pilots compete in the most dangeous interstellar sport.
War of the Worlds - A Victorian campaign pack for adventuring within HG Well's novel.
Academic Specialities - Leveraging Education to create science and academic specialities as skills.
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I own the Dread Thingnomicon in Print & PDF, one of my collection's most useful and referenced books.
Adventurer! For one week only, this Dread Thingonomicon Quick Deal presents, for a special promotional price, the complete 476-page The Dread Thingonomicon compendium from Raging Swan Press with system-neutral lists for every overworked gamemaster of tabletop fantasy roleplaying games. These 76 chapters, compiling hundreds of tables Raging Swan has published over the past seven years in its 20 Things line of mini-supplements, give you the tools to add flavor and detail to any fantasy RPG session. (Check out Raging Swan's free 54-page Thingonomicon sample.)
Pay just US$7.95 for the fully bookmarked 476-page Dread Thingonomicon (retail value $28). You get the .PDF in two versions, one optimized for printing and the second for screen reading. You also get all 73 chapters as separate text files.
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Investigator! Kenneth Hite's Cthulhu Bundle is a new collection of diverse Cthulhu Mythos ebooks from Atomic Overmind Press by star tabletop roleplaying game designer Kenneth Hite.
Writer and game designer Kenneth HiteDesigner of Trail of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, Suppressed Transmission, and more than 70 other RPGs and supplements, Kenneth HIte has analyzed works of HP Lovecraft in treatises such as the two Tour de Lovecraft volumes, and has reimagined the Mythos in gaming sourcebooks like Dubious Shards, The Tarot of Cthulhu, and Adventures into Darkness. This new offer brings you all this Hite-ean erudition for an unbeatable bargain price.
For just US$14.95 you get all six titles in our Hite Collection (retail value $65) as DRM-free ebooks, including Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales, Expanded Edition and Tour de Lovecraft: The Destinations; three Mythos treatises drawn from our October 2013 Bundle of Tentacles – Cthulhu 101, Tarot of Cthulhu: Major Arcana, and Dubious Shards; and an alternate-history sourcebook describing Lovecraft's comic-book work, Adventures Into Darkness.
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I've always enjoyed the various Frog God Games / Necromancer Games holiday-themed adventures. As we get closer to the holiday season, Necromancer Games has two such releases in one Indigogo.
The two releases' PDFs will "ship" in November, while the Print copies are expected in December.
Get ready to deck the halls with a double dose of festive thrills in Necromancer Games’ latest holiday adventure releases! This holiday season, we're bringing you two unforgettable quests that promise excitement, mystery, and a touch of magic!
Prepare for a celebration like no other in this exhilarating adventure written by Alasdair Cunningham. This adventure takes place in the rugged Northlands of the Lost Lands, on a small island where the Hardöen River forks under the might of the Andøvan Mountains. Here, the people can be as grim as the lands in which they dwell, and old angers can fester. In one case, a decades-old dispute between rival families decimated both sides until cooler heads finally prevailed. The peace is celebrated annually with a six-day long celebration known as the Feast of the Fork which is filled with bouts of ale-drinking, pie-eating, and singing … until the first body appears. A wandering shapeshifter named Shadovar hopes to open old wounds and set the families against each other once more. Can you thwart Shadovar's plans and restore peace to this beloved celebration?
This adventure is compatible with 5e, OSR, and Castles & Crusades and suitable for 4-6 adventurers (Tier 1, Level 3-4, and Level 6-8, respectively).
In this thrilling adventure penned by Rhiannon Louvre, Old Father Yule needs help cleansing Yuletown of foul magic that corrupts the great Yule Tree and makes the citizens fall ill. If the town isn’t cleansed in time for the Yuletide, Father Yule won’t be able to deliver his gifts and blessings to all good children — possibly never again! Even more importantly, winter itself may fall into the domain of a terrible evil, a grave danger to all living things. In The 12 Days of Orcus it’s up to you to defeat the malevolent minions of Orcus and save Yuletown from an unthinkable fate. Will you rise to the challenge and restore the magic of the season? Your epic holiday adventure begins here!
Perfect for fans of 5e, OSR, and Castles & Crusades, this adventure invites 4-6 brave souls (Tier 2, Level 5-7, and Level 9-12) to confront an ancient evil threatening the very essence of Yuletown.
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With great sadness, I must report that James Carpio has passed. I have no details yet of the cause of his passing, but James was a kind soul and well-loved in the gaming community and beyond. I have the honor that the only Swords & Wizardry game I ever played as a player was run by James himself. James recently offered to tutor me on the ins and outs of Streamlabs for recordings and live streams, and I regret not having had the time to take him up on his kind offer.
Rest well, James.
I will post an update when more info is available.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (2nd Edition) (1994)
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From the web:
This is the core book for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. In this game, players
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Silentium Ruinarum - Fall
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This began as one of my 'Fall' posts about 'Cults of 5th Century Rome,
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My Modified Mook Rule & Hard to Subdue
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I use a modified mook rule, as discussed in these two posts:
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I still use these in pla...
The Tome of Worldbuilding from Mythmere Games
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I thought I’d mention that Mythmere Games is running another kickstarter.
This one is for a volume entitled *The Tome of Worldbuilding*. The title
pretty...
Where the Tall Wheat Grows
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By Camilla Gree, Evlyn Moreau10d10 ToadsOSE"Low Levels" Upon which is
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Last week I did this for the positive Landmarks, so let’s look at the
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Digging through splatbooks 85-92 skills and kits
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Rewriting my home brew
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Session six left me a little worried my pair may not survive, and what lies
ahead worries me quite a bit! I feel like I have gotten into a groove with
this...
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Achtung! Cthulhu is the roleplaying game of fast-paced pulp action and
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Schupo Sonderwagen 1921
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I have finally managed to finish my 15mm (1:100) Weimar Republic Schupo
Sonderwagen of 1921. At least one of these armoured cars was still
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[BLOG] Year Eight: New Foundations
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The Hall of Mirrors stretches beyond the Two Infinities...This blog started
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Ben Milton, Mr. Questing Beast, is holding an adventure jam for the release
of the much-celebrated second edition of his game, Knave. Short form,
October...
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Back in the day, I suggested that the best mech system is a mechanics-heavy
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Patrick Stuart has a new Kickstarter in the offing - and he has managed to
reveal himself as having the testicular fortitude of a leviathan in the
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Welcome back to the Vault! It's been a long time since I last posted; I
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This is a continuation from this post.
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DO Give Players The ...
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Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a
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My complete map of Oerik
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So many people have asked me for this over the years, I figured it was time
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hoped. I...
Concerning the Future of Traveller
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books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as
from Ma...
The Mystery of the First Blackmoor Map
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In this POST from a few years ago, I was concerned with the issue of scale
and distance in Blackmoor in the course of which I attempted to determine
the...
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[image: Got my Summer Art Acquisitions Framed]
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around to purchasing more frame p...
Far Away Land 2nd Edition Kickstarter is Amazing
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Fay Away Land RPG Ed. 2 is now Kickstarting! It funded quick and has 22
days remaining as of this post. It is a unique setting and RPG that reeks
of fun....
Grimdark vs. Eucatastrophe
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Noisms has some interesting ideas in this post about his desire for some
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Musings on Sleep in OD&D – Is it Over-Powered?
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Link to discussion
Let’s look at the sleep spell in Men & Magic:
>Sleep: A Sleep spell affects from 2–16 1st-level types (hit dice of up to
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Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and
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Improvised Awful Lights Missions
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Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland
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Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim
Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very
helpful to m...
The Economy Engine, v0.2
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I made a thing. For D&D 3rd edition, so it might not be that interesting to
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A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient
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Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
Time Rolls On
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Today is December 31, 2023, in the mid-afternoon. In less than ten hours it
will be 2024. 2023 2023 was a good year. But all years are good years. Both
goo...
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Heya folks, the 21st Salt Mine book, Import Export, has hit the digital
shelves! In the 21st book we follow Aaron Haddock-codename Stigma-as he
tries to ...
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So, my D&D 5e experiment has blown up the lab in a puff of green smoke
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How to Keep Megadungeons Fresh
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People often consider megadungeons boring. Not because the play style is
boring, but because they are in the same locale for a majority of the
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*"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good
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some s$&...
Clean Your Room
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Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun
playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it
was ...
My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter!
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I can't believe I didn't post about it here!
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Just one week to go for Maximum HP issue #004, the undead. We are pushing
through stretch goals and wracking up contributions for the best issue yet.
We...
Steve Jackson Interview
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James Maliszewski recently did an interview with Steve Jackson over on his
Grognardia blog. Steve chats about the beginnings of The Fantasy Trip and
upcomi...
Undermountain Map Origins
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As documented on the Ruins of Undermountain sales page, "TSR didn't
actually use Ed Greenwood's original maps," at least not in their entirety.
This post d...
WB:FMAG Total Print Sales
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Hello Folks,
The last time I did a quick sales report was in September 2018.
I pulled reports from Amazon, Lulu and DrivethruRPG from October to current
fo...
The Minotaur for Old-School Essentials
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*Minotaur*
*Requirements:* Minimum STR 9, Minimum CON 9
*Prime Requisite:* STR and CON
*Hit Dice:* 1d10
*Maximum Level:* 8
*Armor:* Leather, including shield...
WIZARDS OF POHJOLA
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Init +0
Melee Atk
• sword or dagger +1 (1d5 or 1d3)
Ranged Atk
• hot iron sparks +3 (1d4+2 to two targets within 20' but not closer than
5')
AC 14
HD 12d...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded
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In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one
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James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video
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A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We
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The idea, I think, is that the RPG is ultimately about the long game. Even
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This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release,
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SHORT BREAK.
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I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the
New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.
Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor
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Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation
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doi...
New website!
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Slowly but surely, all the content here will make its way — in updated
form! — to my new website: timbannock.com. For fairly obvious reasons, that
site wil...
Please Update Your Link!
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If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is
out of date.
Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is
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We weren't able to play Mord Mar last week, due to a family funeral. This
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There has been a great deal of discussing political agendas, social
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Expanding/editing my comments from What Makes Something Broken G+ thread:
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Swords & Wizardry Light-Themed Birthday Party
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Last month, my wife and I helped our oldest to celebrate his birthday in
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