Insect - Abilities Old and New

(If you're at a miss on what Insect is, read the introduction here.) The first tweak I'm doing to Knave is to rename and rethink the classic Abilities in order to make them feel more like those of System Shock 2. "Your flesh is an insult to the perfection of the digital." ~SHODAN Before I begin I will just say that, since Knave has been released...

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OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire (answered)

UPDATE: This piece mentions Zak S and has links to his blog, but since I wrote this post, this happened (CW: sexual and psychological abuse). Because of this, I am no longer promoting his work, but I will keep the post unchanged because it is part of this blog's (and my) history nevertheless.So Zak made a questionnaire to answer about the DIY/OSR movement...

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Insect - a System Shock 2 hack of Knave

Preview of the possible cover I will keep it simple: I love Knave, it's a simple and elegant system, quick to play and easy to master, with a very cool classless concept: you are your equipment. This concept is actually not new in videogames (I'm not sure about tabletop rpgs though), therefore I decided to try my own hand in a hack inspired by...

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Knave e Blood in the Chocolate - Recensione giocata

Ho provato Knave, l'ultima creazione di Ben Milton (Questing Beast Games), già autore di Maze Rats. Gioco molto bello, creazione dei personaggi rapidissima, regolamento davvero semplice e, proprio come dichiara l'autore, assolutamente compatibile con qualsiasi modulo OSR/Old School (al contrario di Maze Rats, che per quanto bello richiedeva un po'...

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Vieja Escuela - la recensione

Oggi vi presento Vieja Escuela, un neoclone OSR gratuito di origine spagnola che è molto semplice e molto bello. È stato da pochissimo tradotto in inglese e pertanto questa versione può essere più papabili a noi italiani rispetto a quella originale, già che pur avendo in media una relazione molto difficile con la lingua d'Albione sicuramente...

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Mars is shining tonight

Mars is shining tonight. It is burning, a flaming torch against the veil of the night that covers these ancient lands. A piercing vision, a hot red hole puncturing the night sky. An omen, the wise men would say. Then they would look the endless sky, burn incense, laudanum, sage, and after inhaling the fumes they would tell you their...

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What's hidden in the permafrost?

The characters should be careful when they go poking around with their sticks and torches in ancient frozen dungeons. Because when the permafrost starts melting away, strange things may be found in the ice... 1. You, but dressed and equipped as one would have one thousand years ago. You, the other you of course, is not dead. He is (you are?) just...

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Thanatos, the Graveyard Planet

Thanatos, the most famous space graveyard, is giant planet ring made by bones, bodies, urns, sarcophagi and coffins that silently float around the dark and foggy planet of the same name. For thousands and thousands of years star vessels left their dead in this place, where their mortal remains got caught by the planet gravity to remain floating...

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Traveller Starter Set: content and mini review

The Traveller Starter Set is finally mine! After a lot of time craving for it, I finally got to put my hands on it during a vacation in London. I've visited Orcs Nest as suggested by many (I've never seen a shop so full of RPG stuff, living in Italy) and found it -it was the last remaining copy! This introductory box includes: The...

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The Finger of the Leveller and The Incarnation of Death

A cursed artefact and a nightmarish creature, both powerful and incredibly dangerous, bound together in an endless circle of death: the first is obtained by defeating the second, the second is created by overusing the first. The Finger of the Leveller A plain skeletal finger, freezing to the touch and with finely carved runes and symbols...

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