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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available

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The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition is now available. Microlite20 is a tiny version of 3.x designed to allow use of 3.x supplements and adventures without all of the complex 3.x rules. In its raw form, Microlite20 and its more important optional and supplemental sections are a hodge-podge of short pdfs produced by different people and formatted however the producer of that section wanted. The Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition takes all this material and combines it in one document — all formatted the same and somewhat reorganized in places to make it easier to … Continue reading →

The Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition is Now Available

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The paid version of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition is now available. The free version will be out early next week. If you buy the paid version of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition you will receive the following: a pdf of the single-column digest-sized version — 164 pages, with art a pdf of the two-column letter-sized version — 68 pages, with art a pdf of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Player’s Guide — 10 pages, no art: has all the player-facing rules (plus equipment and spell lists) and is designed to be printed and given to players. epub and mobi ebook versions of … Continue reading →

Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Available Next Week

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Coming next week: the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition. As I mentioned about a week ago, I discovered a copy of a game I was working on in 2015 on my drive. I have finished it up and will be releasing it next week. The price for the paid version will probably be $7.50. What is the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition? In its raw form, Microlite20 and its more important optional and supplemental sections are a hodge-podge of pdfs produced by different people and formated however the producer of that section wanted. The Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition takes all this material and combines it … Continue reading →

Playing D&D 3e Without Tears

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A week or so ago, I mentioned that I was playing in a D&D 3e game — a long running campaign that started as a 2e game in the early 1990s — and that the campaign avoided most of the many 3e problems discussed on forums because the game was played as if it were 2e and used a few house rules to fix some of the more obvious issues. Naturally, I was asked what those house rules are. So this campaign is the subject of today’s post. The most important reason for this campaign’s success with the 3e system … Continue reading →

Microlite74 Ultimate Edition Arriving Soon

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This last year has been a bit hard with the move to Ohio, but I am finally getting back into the swing of things game-design-wise. The first project on the plate is the Microlite74 Ultimate Edition. It is finally complete and should be available in the next week or so. The Microlite74 Ultimate Edition is a 384 page digest-sized edition of Microlite74. It combined Microlite74 Extended with the first three Microlite74 Companion Volumes (Optional Rules, Treasure, and More Optional Rules) and adds a few new optional rules (like custom-designed feats) and an expanded GM section with an example hexcrawl setting … Continue reading →

Microlite20 Rules Now Available in a Tablet-Friendly PDF

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While I’m not much of a tablet (or smartphone for that matter) person, I was given an Acer A1-810. I don’t really use it for much more than a fancy ereader to supplement my old nook. I have used it enough to know that using multi-column pdfs is a real pain, even using EBookDroid which can zoom to columns. I was talking about Microlite20 and my new Microlite20.org unofficial website at my Sunday game a couple of weeks ago. One of my players mentioned that one of his friends runs a because game from his tablet and finds most of … Continue reading →

Does the World need a “Microlite20 Extended”?

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I have received what appears to me to be a very strange request: that I write an “extended version” of Microlite20. After some back and forth in email with this person (who I will refer to as Jack), I think I finally understand what this means and it is probably something I could do if there is enough interest among people who like 3.x/PF. First, the request is for longer rules. According to Jack, Microlite20‘s one page rules really cut the game too much and given the thousands of page of 3.x/PF rules, a game with 10, 20 or even … Continue reading →

3.Y: Rolling Back 3.0 to Play More Like AD&D (in a Free 14 Page Supplement)

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Blacky the Blackball, author of Dark Dungeons, Darker Dungeons, etc., has released a new game 3.Y. Actually, 3.Y is a fourteen page supplement to the 3.0 SRD (of the world’s most popular tabletop fantasy RPG). Yes, you read that right: 14 pages and the 3.0 SRD. 3.Y is based on a “what if” scenario: Once upon a time, there was an RPG that went through a number of editions with one company before that company collapsed and was bought by a second company. The game had been incredibly popular once, but by the time the second company bought the first … Continue reading →

Another TSR Interview: Skip Williams

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Random Wizard has done another good interview with a former TSR employee. This time its Skip Williams talking about his first adventure, his early days at TSR, his thoughts on 4th edition, his recent work for WotC, and what he has been up to lately. Skip Williams Interview Skip worked on a lot of 2e and 3e stuff I really did not like, but the interview is an interesting read. The Brown Box/Wee Warriors Cancer Fund Drive updated with BONUS giveaway items is on. 12 standard giveaway items (including a third printing Brown Box D&D and Wee Warriors items are … Continue reading →

No D&D Next (If I was in Charge of D&D at WOTC)

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I’ve made no secret of the fact that the new “D&D Next” isn’t doing much for me. I’ve been asked what I would do if I were in charge of D&D at WOTC several times over the past year. Here’s my answer. First, I’d hire a couple of D&D 4e experts to go over the 4e material and finalize the system (between the original 4e material, the later 4e material and the Essentials), and write a definitive Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and GM Guide. I’ll call this line “D&D Tactics” and publish new material for it through the current online … Continue reading →