The Miniature Wargaming Editor

Castles and Crusades Netbook of Classes

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Castles And Crusades is old school Dungeons and Dragons, with some clever systems that both simplify things and make the game compatible with all of yoru old (monster manuals and such. I don’t normally link to commercial products here, but I’m particularly taken with this one.

There’s also a growing community offering free supplementary materials, like the Netbook of Classes. The Netbook offers fifteen new classes, including executioner, harlequin and lore warden.

Half Timbered Town Houses

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Here’s a site with four very nice paper models of 25mm / 28mm half-timbered houses that would be appropriate for a fantasy or medieval town setting. There are “shoddy shops” a “posh place,” a plain half timbered house and a building that is more fantasy oriented. All are in pdf format.

Old School Dungeons and Dragons Role Playing

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OSRIC (Old School Reference & Index Compilation) offers a free fantasy role playing game inspired by first edition Dungeons and Dragons. It’s not the first effort I’ve seen trying to recapture the magic of 1st edition, before the life was sucked out of it with the bloated later editions.