Gangs of Skavenblight is an Warhammer Fantasy adaptation of Footsore Miniatures’ Gangs of Rome Game. It features, as you might imagine, gangs of Skaven fighting for control of the city of the Horned Rat.
All of the links below are to pdf files.
Gangs of Skavenblight is an Warhammer Fantasy adaptation of Footsore Miniatures’ Gangs of Rome Game. It features, as you might imagine, gangs of Skaven fighting for control of the city of the Horned Rat.
All of the links below are to pdf files.
An Hour of Valor is a set of free wargames rules for Fantasy Skirmishes.
Crunch Waffle Games offers Extra Terrae Crepusculum, a free fantasy skirmish wargame designed to allow you to use miniatures from any other game system or line. Crunch Waffle is of course, a miniatures company and surely hopes that this will spur sales. It’s a great idea. I’ve long thought that miniatures companies should give away their rules to sell the miniatures — sort of the Gillette theory of game sales: give away the handle and charge them for the blades.
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.
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.