Free Stuff Section

FSG is adding a “Free Stuff” page to the site. As time allows it will get new additions, tools, NPCs, Monsters, Pregens, and encounters to add to your adventures. All focused on old school gaming. This will be a place to add tic-bits to…

Are print products like the phone book now?

Book

Digital Gadgets I love electronic gadgets, tablets, and laptops, and they are handy for gaming. Searchable PDFs of modules, supplements, rule books, the E-version of RPG books are everywhere and usually quite a bit cheaper than the print version. It seems like a no-brainer…

Women Who Game

I am reading through the Rules Cyclopedia in short bursts. To the women who were gamers in the 80s through 90s and stuck with it and kept gaming: I truly salute you. It takes a real love of the game that not many have,…

Maximum HP Announced!

Maximum HP

  The latest announcement from Fail Squad Games Is the creation of Maximum HP, the OSR Quarterly subscription with more hit points than a world-eater! If you love old school gaming, if you want to add more old-school flavor to your 5E games, you…

My Gripe About D&D 5E

I Love Dungeons & Dragons, it’s my livelihood and source of great joy. I follow a number of groups in numerous editions and a pattern seems to be emerging in 5E that troubles me. Although it may be kicking a hornet’s nest, I’m going…

Writing adventures, the humble beginning

Writing adventures for Dungeons and Dragons (and all the OGL OSR systems) is a tricky business. Where do you start? how do you make a workable adventure? Can it be published? Whenever I begin writing adventures I have to remind myself to NOT turn…