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https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/an-ordinate-list-of-christian-rpgs.7475/

The Beowulf poet is oddly silent on the leg issue. The dragon is specified as having wings. Which rather brings us back to Tolkien’s point; if one of the greatest poets in world history failed to mention something, it was probably because they regarded it as insignificant not because they lacked...

Plenty of good suggestions already. However, there’s no need to use Sanity at all for Harn. It’s sandwiched between “war engines” and “vessels” in the rules, and is probably less useful than either. Monster stat blocks have it as their last line and it can be ignored.

The simplest BRP version to adapt to Harn would be Cthulhu Dark Ages, which has the medievalism baked in. The default setting for OpenQuest is a pseudo-Carolingian empire which would also work. The generic BRP rules have just been published in a tidied up edition under the ORC licence. Other...

Sorry @Homicidal_Squirrel that was meant as a general response.

Tolkien wrote extensively about dragons and dragon-kind in his scholarly work. He argued that there were only three “true” dragons in European literature: the dragon that slew Beowulf; the world serpent of Norse myth; and Fafnir of the Siegfried cycle. Number of legs was an irrelevance. Tolkien...

There’s an ACKS scenario called the Sinister Stone of Sakkara set in the Borderlands of the Auran Empire (cough Roman). The first part of the scenario is placed in a beleaguered Imperial fort with floor plans, etc. provided.

Useful graphic.

1. Cthulhu Eternal already exists. 2. Chaosium have pulled the CoC SAN rules out of BRP (and thus ORC).

Where did he bury the body of “Greg Gorgonmilk” (the co-author of Dolmenwood IIRC)?

There's an obscure OSR system called "Adventures Dark and Deep" which took some guesses where EGG's 2e would have gone and put them into book form. It’s still going by the look of it, with a completed Kickstarter supported by c. 600 people in 2021...

Joe Nuttall crunched the numbers on the 1970s a little while ago. The “few adventures” might not be a sound assumption. There were 200+ with exponential growth, output doubling every year, making each year of the late 1970s a new era. As Nuttall noted the key would be find out when the...

Seven pages of great discussion mainly recommending D&D as the replacement for D&D! The obvious non-D&D alternatives have already been mentioned. DFRPG, TFT - or In the Labyrinth - which suggests its purpose, Dungeons with hexes. Melee is free from SJG. Runequest. Runequest Classic is probably...

Yes, especially Howard, and before I discovered D&D. I’ve been writing a blog series about how D&D looked when viewed through a Howardian prism. It’s called ‘Game Like Conan’. https://the180fantasyproject.wordpress.com/

Amend away! I was thinking of the socio-economic in the context of porting Homeric Greece into Beowulf. That game is based around the heroes sailing from quest to quest. It struck me that what works for Baltic/Irish Sea/North Atlantic could be re-skinned for Aegean/Mediterranean.

Quite the contrary in my view! I’m pretty sure that Michael Moorcock was influenced by Robert Graves’s tendentious masterpiece The Greek Myths. That in turn was based on a century of scholarship that wrestled with the problem of evil in the classics. It’s still a very live debate with the...

Hear me out on this one: The key Homeric elements are: 1. Heroic warrior culture. 2. Civilisation based on city states (points of light). 3. Society based on maritime interchange, including violent plundering. 4. Immanent deity. If one is willing to do some reskinning then Handiwork Games’s...

Blood & Treasure Complete. John Stater’s retroclone is free. It runs off the SRD but identifies the edition from which each element, e.g. spells derives. Thus it’s possible to turn the wick up or down: if you want AD&D just avoid the stuff from later editions. The Monster Tome and NOD Companion...

1. Too much like the day job. 2. Group has outstanding GMs.