Fantasy

Gaming The Battle of Helms Deep

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Doug Larsen has a nice article and scenario for fighting the battle of Helm’s Deep. He has obviously spent a lot of time studying the source material for both the maps and the forces.

Paper Model of An Elf Tower

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I’m not at all sure what scale this free paper model of an elf tower is in. Its either a big 15mm or a small 25mm scale. In either case, it would be a nice addition to the table for a fantasy game.

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.

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.

Printable Terrain Tiles

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Dungeoneering dot Net has a nice selection of printable terrain tiles ostensibly for use with the Dungeons and Dragons miniatures game, but which would also work with any number of dungeon crawl games — of which there are many free ones available on this site.