Coins and Scrolls: OSR: Testing Treasure Tables & Treasure Values
Treasure tables are, for better or worse, part of old-school RPGs. Since the intention is to make the Treasure Overhaul a very useful and ...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
Treasure tables are, for better or worse, part of old-school RPGs. Since the intention is to make the Treasure Overhaul a very useful and broadly compatible book, it's important to understand the subtleties of historical treasure generation. The average treasure value of a given type is relatively easy to calculate. It's also deceptive. Averages are a good start, but if you only look at averages, you can easily miss the big picture. To make sure I understood the bones of OD&D and AD&D's famo...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
Treasure tables are, for better or worse, part of old-school RPGs. Since the intention is to make the Treasure Overhaul a very useful and ...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
This is my Death and Dismemberment table, outright stolen lovingly adapted from Arnold K's v23 table. It's more complicated than most of ...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
In the previous installment, the PCs:| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever reason, seem to attract a disproportionate level of interesting events.| Coins and Scrolls
In 1972 the CBC asked listeners to complete the saying "As Canadian as...", to match "As American as apple pie." The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."| Coins and Scrolls
A traditional high-effort medieval post from Skerples? Is it 2017?| Coins and Scrolls
Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using Magical Industrial Revolution. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just want the rules.| Coins and Scrolls
Back in the day, I suggested that the best mech system is a mechanics-heavy RPG system, but scaled up. D&D 4E seemed like a good candidate. Mech systems are hard. The system needs to be crunchy, balanced (to survive online criticism), and sufficiently complex while being possible to run without a team of assistants and a graphing calculator. Lancer meets all these requirements and more.| Coins and Scrolls
In the previous post, I covered low-level Illusionist spells for theTreausure Overhaul. Higher-level spells present their own design challenges. They need to feel more impact than lower-level spells, but won't be cast anywhere near as often.| Coins and Scrolls
The Treausure Overhaul is going to include spells. They're too useful for treasure design. It's tricky to make a systemless OSR book that includes wands, scrolls, artifacts, and other spell-related items without providing spells. | Coins and Scrolls
The Andalusian is a free 31 page space opera heist module, designed for mySquishy Space system (also free).| Coins and Scrolls
I decided to write a space opera system. Initially, I just wanted to write a really good space opera mission generator, but the project got out of hand. If you want something to exist, and it doesn't exist, you have to make it. | Coins and Scrolls
The new print run has arrived! Copies are available via Indie Press Revolutionand Compose Dream Games (now in the UK).| Coins and Scrolls
Material components are annoying. They're fun in theory but a pain in practice.| Coins and Scrolls
Another excerpt from the Treasure Overhaul, but formatted for a blog post. Arnold K's dungeon merchants are, as usual, well worth reading.| Coins and Scrolls
I've written another 10 pages of the Treasure Overhaul (title pending), a condensed magic item compendium for old-school games. Unlike the firsttwo previews, this PDF is only available on Patreon.| Coins and Scrolls
Here are another 7 draft pages from a potential "Treasure Overhaul" book. Combined with the previous PDF, that's 13 pages of free treasure. | Coins and Scrolls
Some people have asked for a "Monster Overhaul but for treasure and spells." Here's a very early six-page draft attempt at compressing a lot of classic D&D items into an immediately usable format.| Coins and Scrolls
Here are some spells for Lord Dunsany's Gods of Pegāna (1905). If you need a ready-made public domain pantheon for your games and you don't want the standard Law vs. Chaos dualism of Anderson and Tolkien. It was a fun writing exercise, even if I chose to stick with the unfortunately gendered language of the original text. | Coins and Scrolls
In the previous posts (1,2) I designed and scratchbuilt an alt-history interwar tank, the Scheider FA. Now, I've painted and weathered the tank. | Coins and Scrolls
According to this list from GeekNative, The Monster Overhaulwas the 6th bestselling fantasy RPG on DriveThruRPG in 2023.| Coins and Scrolls
If you want a cleaned-up modernized one-volume OD&D rules set, you have a lot of options these days, but the original texts, without the benefits of decades of polish and revision, are well worth analyzing. | Coins and Scrolls
Time to revisit the primordial ooze of the Old-School Renaissance, the original D&D booklets. | Coins and Scrolls
Good news! After selling out the first print run in record time The Monster Overhaul: A Practical Bestiary is back in stock.| Coins and Scrolls
In January of 1919, eight men conspired to kidnap Wilhelm II, the abdicated Kaiser. | Coins and Scrolls
With lessons learned from the Schneider CA and the Renault FT, the Schneider FA was developed in 1926 as a heavy breakthrough and infantry support tank. It was designed to counter FCM's formidable Char 2C, the heaviest tank deployed by the National Front and the Paris Guard, as well as any vehicle that might emerge from Italy or (in theory) the Free People's State of Württemberg.| Coins and Scrolls
With a philosophical| Coins and Scrolls
I n the previous installment , the PCs: Killed a load-bearing vampire. Answered several longstanding questions. Participated in Endon's sec...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever reason, seem to attract a disproportionate level of interesting events.| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
Biomancy is a forbidden art. The Authority 's law is clear; mortals were meant to live for a time, then die and send their souls to an allot...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
Adapted from Goblin Punch (as usual). From time to time, the Authority needs to make edits to Creation. Angels are unsubtle and require...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
People keep asking for "beginner" dungeons. Everyone can name "classic" dungeons - Tomb of Horrors, Barrier Peaks, Temple of Elemental Evi...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
It's tempting to think of medieval cities as islands in a vast sea of farmland or wilderness. Look at a certain modern medieval-ish TV serie...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
I've created a PDF of my 1d500 Biological and 1d500 Supernatural mutations . About a quarter of them were significantly edited, rewritten, ...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
Part 1: Whither Utopia? Where has all the optimistic science fiction gone? Where are the utopias of yesteryear? Gone, eaten by the end of h...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
In the 13th century, two monks from China, Rabban Bar Sawma and Rabban Mark , embarked on a pilgrimage. Their journey is sometimes describe...| coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
