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Microlite75 Standard Now Available for Download (Free Game)

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The second Microlite75 game, Microlite75 Standard, is now available for download as a “pay what you want” game on DrivethruRPG/RPGNow. As usual, free ($0) is a perfectly acceptable price, although I hope you will consider tossing in a buck or two to support the medical bills. Microlite75 games are a sort of “new edition” of Microlite74. Like Microlite78 and Microlite81 games, Microlite75 games use an experience and advancement system much closer to the original “0e” system than the Microlite20-based system used in Microlite74 games. They also all include some of most popular “house rules” based system that first appeared in … Continue reading →

New Free Game: Microlite75 Basic is Now Available For Download

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I’m happy to announce that the first Microlite75 game, Microlite75 Basic, is now available for download as a “pay what you want” game on DrivethruRPG/RPGNow. As usual, free ($0) is a perfectly acceptable price, although I hope you will consider tossing in a buck or two to support the medical bills. Microlite75 games are a sort of “new edition” of Microlite74. Like Microlite78 and Microlite81 games, Microlite75 games use an experience and advancement system much closer to the original “0e” system than the Microlite20-based system used in Microlite74 games. They also all include some of most popular “house rules” based … Continue reading →

Epub Versions of Microlite74 Basic, Standard, and Extended Available

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I’ve been asked for epub versions of my games for ages. While the tablet-digest versions with their single column and larger text sized work better on tablets than the standard full-sized “condensed type” versions Epubs are better for viewing on tablets and phones because the text flows to try to fit the width of the screen. While I’ve tried epubs before, epubs just don’t handle tables well — many epub readers display them as a single column (all the cells in the first row — each on their own line, then all the cells in the second row — each … Continue reading →

Microlite81 Complete Release Candidate 1 Available for Free Public Download

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The first (and with luck only) Release Candidate version of Microlite81 Complete is now available for download and comment. Microlite81 Complete is intended to be standard Microlite81 with more complete descriptions of spells, monsters, and magic items and a few extras like an example of play and instructions for GMs which will hopefully make the game more friendly to players with less experience with old school gaming. Microlite81 Complete allows the GM to select which version of the “core game rules” to use (the standard B/X-like rules from Microlite81 or the B/X-like rules with the author’s house rules from the … Continue reading →

Microlite81 Complete Public Beta Available for Free Download

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The public beta of Microlite81 Complete is now available for download and comment. Microlite81 Complete is intended to be standard Microlite81 with more complete descriptions of spells, monsters, and magic items and a few extras like an example of play and instructions for GMs which will hopefully make the game more friendly to players with less experience with old school gaming. Microlite81 Complete allows the GM to select which version of the “core game rules” to use (the standard B/X-like rules from Microlite81 or the B/X-like rules with the author’s house rules from the early 1980s added as in Microlite81 … Continue reading →

Microlite20-based Pathfinder LITE Available for Free Download

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The latest version of Morgan Mains’ Pathfinder LITE is now available for download in PDF format in Microlite20.org‘s download area. Pathfinder LITE is a Microlite20-like versiion of Pathfinder. Mains says this about the game: “I really liked much of what Pathfinder brought to the game table. However I still wanted the sleek, robust, ruleset of Microlite20. What I did was take the core rules of Microlite20 and added in key features that I thought truly defined Pathfinder; the things that really set it apart from 3.5. Then I smelted down those features and incorporated them in to the Microlite20 core … Continue reading →

Free RPG Day: Over 100 Free RPGs on Microlite20.org

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Today, June 20th 2015, is free RPG day. If you do not live near a participating game store, there are a lot of free RPGs available online. RetroRoleplaying.com‘s new sister site, Microlite20.org, currently hosts over 100 free Microlite20-based roleplaying games with more to come: the original tiny Microlite20 (and some very big and more complete “large” editions), many Microlite20 variants (including science fiction, western, superhero, and other non-fantasy variants and both “new school” and “old school” style games), and of course, my own Microlite74, Microlite78, and Microlite81. Here are just a few of the games available in the Microlite20.org Download … 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 →

Microlite78 Errata

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When I doing final editing of Microlite78: First Edition Lite, Microsoft Word died as I was adding one last text box near the end of the document. I thought I had checked the autosaved version of the file carefully, but I missed something. The Class requirements for assassins, druids, illusionists, paladins, and rangers had reverted to what I had originally written when I was going to use all six attributes. If you have one of the first 100 or so downloads of Microlite78: First Edition Lite, you will need to make the following changes (or just download a new copy). … Continue reading →