For the sake of pure nostalga, here’s a (silent) Super 8 film of a Dungeons and Dragons session from the 1980s. It looks a lot like the sessions I remember.
Role Playing Games
World War II Role Playing Game
The World War II RPG by Mikko Kauppinen is designed as a simple game that is deadly to low level characters, but that allows more powerful characters to do very cinematic actions. Characters have three attributes and a number of skills. Action resolution is done by rolling 1d6, subtracting the result from the relevant attribute and adding one. If the result is more than zero, the character has succeeded, and bigger numbers mean greater successes.
Standalone RPG Adventure From Troll Lord Games
Troll Lord Games offers a free, standalone RPG adventure using their SIEGE Engine game system. From the description:
FREE OPEN & PLAY! All you need to start playing now! Introductory Adventure using the Siege Engine. Everything included.
Hell is an unkind place. A sprawling megalopolis of twisted streets and ramshackle buildings piled one on top of the other, clawing their way to height’s unseen where the Lords of Hell rule. Here the harvested souls of evil labor as slaves, doomed to eternal torment. Bound to a world of suffering, always yearning for a world beyond their own. Those wicked, and who are able, seek to flee this city of the damned and do so with whatever tool they can: greed, violence, avarice. Fleeing Hell is the only goal.
But to do so, these souls must pass the Borderhounds. They are Bounty Hunters set on the edge of forever who hunt down wayward souls and throw them in, or out, of Hell. Led by grim faced Brimstone, these Borderhounds are the bane of the damned.
Now you can join the Borderhounds!!
Brimstone and the Borderhounds is a complete, standalone Role Playing Game using the tried and tested Siege Engine, crafted by veteran game designer Jason Vey. Fight devils, demons and more in your hunt to capture Hell’s wayward souls!
Mass Combat Rules For Role Playing Games
The Wrath of Zombies blog has a set of free RPG rules for Mass Combat. While written for the author’s own Thundarr style game, they are applicable to a wide variety of rules and settings.
Dungeon Geomorphs
The Character For Every Game Blog offers some really neat dungeon geomorph tiles, as well as a few nice complete dungeons. Plenty here to look at.