An OSR experiment - The rose petaled road with a small but vicious smiling dog [2]

“Where all is pink, we shall meet. When skies be blue and [only] willows weep”.

Ol’d6 – playing white box D&D using d6 and wargaming ideas

Here is an idea for using only d6s in white box D&D (and other similar OSRs)

Rolling stats and stat modifiers in OSR - The rose petaled road with a small but vicious smiling dog [2]

Today I will continue on what I was talking yesterday. In the rose petaled road with a small but vicious smiling dog, I approach character stats (or abilities, or attributes, depending on what book you are reading). They are the first things that start to give shape to a character. After the first idea or concept you may have, it is only after knowing their stats that you will truly have a grasp of how that character will be. Many times, depending on what numbers you get, you will end up changing your character concept.

An OSR experiment - The rose petaled road with a small but vicious smiling dog [1]

I love reading about settings, and adventures – but what I love the most is when those settings seem alive as if reading them is not a ‘how-to’ for creating your campaign, but a journey in itself. Like when reading a story, when reader and text become an amalgam of interactions. So, an idea came to mind:

The rose petaled road with a small but vicious smiling dog – a book of rules, scenery and a short story adventure for classic rpgs

Thanos Alignment in Infinity War – a Dilemma

This post will contain spoilers for the Marvel movie Infinity War. Therefore, read it only if you’ve seen the movie or you don’t mind being spoiled.

5e D&D - Group Checks and Group's Average Checks

A party of adventurers making a group survival check

The PHB tells to use Group Checks when a number of individuals are trying to attempt something as a group and they will either all fail or all succeed. In the rules, it says that to do a group check all involved must make the check as usual. If half of the group succeeds, then all the group succeeds. I would like to expand on these explanations a little bit analysing the possible uses of Group Checks and, in the end of the article, propose a variation of roll using the average of all characters' skills instead of rolling for each of them separately.

5e D&D - The Battousai: a new fighter and monk subclass

Today I bring you a new sub-class that can be used both as a fighter's martial archetype or a monk's monastic tradition. It is the Battousai - the master swordsman who attacks rapidly with its sword, based both on historical japanese sword fighting and the Rouroni Kenshin's anime protagonist: Kenshin Himura, the Hitokiri Battousai (manslaying master swordsman).