Month: April 2022

Creatures and Caverns RPG

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Creatures and Caverns is an easy to play free RPG. From the author’s description:

In 1982 a 13-year old who’d just seen some neighborhood kids play Dungeons & Dragons decided to create his own game in which knights and wizards explored underground catacombs, defeated monsters, and took their treasure. This book represents a refined version of those rules appropriate for kids interested in transitioning from traditional board games to a more imaginative form of structured play.

Creatures & Caverns is a very basic “roleplaying” game in which players explore subterranean labyrinths, using imaginary heroes to defeat monsters they encounter and collect their treasure. Although it uses a map like a board in a traditional game, it also enables players to assume the roles of knights and wizards exploring underground. These heroes use an arsenal of weapons and spells to slay monsters; die rolls often decide their fate, determining whether they strike their foes and fend off attacks.

Creatures & Caverns includes all the rules needed to play, character sheets for knights and wizards, a bestiary of monsters to fight, guidelines for creating new foes, notes on traps and treasures, experience rules for improving characters, and two ready-to-play scenarios.

Peter Schweighofer is a writer, editor, and game developer with more than 20 years’ experience in the publishing field, including time working for many companies in the adventure gaming hobby. While best-known for his contributions to various iterations of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, he’s also the author of period sourcebooks Pulp Egypt and Heroes of Rura-Tonga, as well as numerous other works for various roleplaying games. He pursues his game-publishing activities under the auspices of Griffon Publishing Studio.

Wars of the Roses Supplement for LoTR Strategy Battle Game

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Here’s a Wars of the Roses supplement for the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. The original link has died. I’ve attached a copy below.

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Bashing the Bishop Medieval Skirmish Rules

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Here’s a fun looking set of medieval skirmish rules called Bashing the Bishop. The title tells you just how serious they are.

Russian Civil War Rules: Red Army, White Guards

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Red Army White Guards is a set of free wargames rules for the Russian Civil War.

Alien War Science Fiction Rules

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Howard Whitehouse offers a playtest version of Alien War Whitehouse writes:

In a time when gamers have come to accept that a rules set must be a bloated, over-priced volume handed down without consultation, to be followed without question, we thought we’d do something completely different.

We thought we’d give you a set of rules to test, for free, and see if you like them. We thought we’d open up the process of development to a wider audience and listen to what people had to say. For the last year we’ve had gamers from three continents playing these rules and adding their suggestions. And now we are offering them to you, free.

Play it, see what you think. If you are interested in contributing to it, we would love you to. We won’t promise to use every suggestion (and we aren’t going back to step one, either!) but if you’ll play it and let us know what you think, we’ll have a better game at the end of it all. Instructions on how to do that are below.

Alien War, designed by Howard Whitehouse, is a game of ground combat for 28mm (1/56 scale) models set in the year 2260. The rules have been designed to give you an authentic feel for the future battlefield (at least the one we envision!)