Stuff That Might See a Review

• Macchiato Monsters Zero** by Eric Nieudan: an OSR-3rd-generation-style mix of The Black Hack (TBH) and Whitehack
• Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells (aff, PWYW): Sword & Sorcery with TBH and Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC)
• Hubris** by Mike Evans (aff): a weird fucked-up fantasy world for DCC - I’m mostly interested in using the system-neutral territories for adventure prep

More Things That Are Interesting

• Troika!** by Daniel Sells: “a response to decrepit UK RPGs […], rebuilt without sentimentality, corpses of darlings litter the streets”
• Black Pudding #1** by J.V. West (aff, PWYW): a light-hearted, cartoonish OSR zine with simple, adaptable rules
• Maze Rats** by Ben Milton (aff, PWYW): a minimalist OSR dungeon-crawler, uses 2d6 and comes with lots of random tables
• Low Fantasy Gaming** by S. J. Grodzicki (free PDF): a d20 OSR game on 184 pages
• How I Run Into the Odd** by Chris McDowall (blog post): I’m still searching for a good low-friction way to prep a game. Chris has some good advice.
• In Darkest Warrens** by Scott Malthouse (aff, PWYW): minimalist fantasy game on 2 pages
• Sorcerers & Sellswords** by Ray Otus (free): this rules-lite one-pager will get a German translation by Thorsten, Norbert and me

Going Solo

I wrote a minimalist solo RPG framework called Miso RPG. It is a work in progress but I plan to share it in the next few days. Keywords: rules-lite, freeform

And What About This Blog

The site got a fresh coat of paint. The new theme loads faster. The menu is easier to navigate. Server and database have been struggling the last few days. My admin is looking into it. I will write more. This blog lay dormant for a while because I was concentrating on family life and other matters. But I realize I miss role-playing games too much.