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Microlite78 Expanded Second Tablet/Digest Version Now Available

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Microlite78 First Edition Lite Expanded Second Tablet/Digest Edition is now available from RPGNow and DriveThruRPG for $9.95. You can purchase your copy from: RPGNow DriveThruRPG This Expanded Second Tablet/Digest Edition is the ultimate version of the second edition of new Microlite78 First Edition Lite. It is suitable for digest-sized printing or tablet viewing (pdf, epub, and mobi versions are included). This 1012 page digest-sized PDF includes new material not included in the standard (or in  the “pay-what-you-want”) version of the second edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite, for example: New (Optional) Classes: Alchemist, Commander, Monk, and Necromancer 120+ additional monsters over … Continue reading →

Second Edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite Now Available

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Interested in the First Edition of the world’s most popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game, but put off by its seemingly random mechanics and design elements? Interested in trying some of the best known First Edition adventures with old school play but want to use the “better designed” D20-style mechanics you already know. The second edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite is the game for you. These rules take the First Edition rules and filter them though the D20-based Microlite20 system to produce a conversion of the First Edition rules to a rules-lite D20-based system that encourages old-school play without strictly … Continue reading →

Labor Day sale (40% Off) and September RetroRoleplaying.com Project News

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Labor Day Sale — 40% Off Celebrate Labor day with 40% off all RetroRoleplaying.com games, including BX Advanced, Microlite81 Expanded Edition, and Microlite74 Ultimate Edition. This sale ends sometime on September 4th. * BX Advanced $9.95 — Sale Price: $5.97 * Dungeon Delving Undying Light Edition $3.99 — Sale Price: $2.39 * Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition $7.50 — Sale Price: $4.50 * Microlite74 Basic Digest/Epub $1.99 — Sale Price: $1.19 * Microlite74 Extended Digest/Epub $3.99 — Sale Price: $2.39 * Microlite74 Standard Digest/Epub $2.99 — Sale Price: $1.79 * Microlite74 Swords & Sorcery 2e Digest/Epub $6.99 — Sale Price: $4.19 * … Continue reading →

Summer Heat Wave Fund Drive (with Old School Donor Giveaway Items)

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It’s been about two and a half years since I’ve had to do a fund-raising drive to help pay for my wife’s many medical issues (oral cancer survivor, spine issues, and now multiple sclerosis). This is due to moving to a state that expanded medicaid so my wife has insurance that actually covers most stuff. So we no longer have 20% co-pays on her MRIs, CT Scans, and other expensive procedures she has to have regularly. Unfortunately, there are some things that are not covered. Most are not a large expense. However, the current example, glasses, is a large expense. … Continue reading →

A Second Edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite?

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Microlite78 fan Robert has been at it again. While he was happy to see the digest/ebook version of Microlite78 First Edition Lite, he pointed out that i could do a version much closer to 1e now that I have more than the Microlite74 material to work with. He’s right. The original mandate for Microlite78 was to combine the Microlite74 Extended rules with Microlite74 Companions II (Treasure), IV (Bestiary of Monsters), and V (First Edition Spells) into a single volume that could be used to play 1e style games — and to use the more standard XP and advancement system I … Continue reading →

Microlite74: Perilous Adventures is Now Available (Free RPG)

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Back in 2015, I created a special version of Microlite74 designed for my Wilderlands of High Fantasy game. It was sort of a “Basic Plus” version in that it limited itself to the original three character classes of Microlite74 Basic and the original 0e boxed set, but used the more complete/complex rules from Microlite74 Extended. It also allow Magic-Users to select between four spell lists at character creation and clerics to select between two. A “special edition” of this game (entitled Microlite74: Perilous Adventures) with donated art was released for RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund donors in the Spring of 2015. I … Continue reading →

Microlite81 Advanced Expanded Tablet Digest Edition Available Next Week

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Coming next week. Microlite81 Advanced: Expanded Tablet/Digest Edition. The Microlite81 Advanced: Expanded Tablet/Digest Edition takes the popular Microlite81 Advanced rules and puts them in a format designed for easy use on tablets (larger type, smaller single-column pages). However, it also adds a lot of new material that is not in the pay-what-you-want “condensed type” edition of Microlite81 Advanced — such as: about 100 additional monsters over 50 new magic items, including some magic items designed specifically for Microlite81 systems (e.g. the hit point fueled magic system) a few new spells rules for using small parties of 1-3 characters in old … Continue reading →

Dungeon Delving Undying Light SRD Now Online

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I’ve created a Dungeon Delving Undying Light “SRD” web site where the entire Dungeon Delving Undying Light rules are online as web pages. The site is not spectacular to look at, but it is functional and allows reading the Dungeon Delving Undying Light rules from a web browser on just about any modern computer, tablet, or smartphone. SRD sites are popular with other games like D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, Dungeon World, and others; and I’ve had requests to provide such sites for my games. Since Dungeon Delving Undying Light is a small game and I recently discovered a way to easily … Continue reading →

“Free” Version of Dungeon Delving Undying Light Now Available

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The Pay-What-You-Want (aka Free) version the Dungeon Delving Undying Light is finally available! Dungeon Delving Undying Light is a trimmed down and simplified version of Swords & Wizardry. This game takes the Continual Light edition and cleans up the rules and the formatting, then adds backgrounds, more monsters, rules for morale and reaction rolls, additional minor optional rules, four optional systems (True Magic Rituals, Action Points, Body Points, Advanced Combat), and some basic explanations for the referee on how to handle dungeon and wilderness exploration. Designed to be easy to play and easy to teach to those new to tabletop … Continue reading →

Playing Dungeons & Dragons as a Test of Artificial Intelligence?

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The article below points out that getting a computer to play Dungeons & dungeons and pass a human player might be a better test of artificial intelligence than games like Go or Chess. I agree that playing Dungeons & Dragons (or any tabletop RPG) requires showing a much different time of intelligence than playing Chess or Go — games with strict rules and a very limited set of actions one can take on their turn. Everyone had died – not that you’d know it, from how they were laughing about their poor choices and bad rolls of the dice. As … Continue reading →