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You're absolutely welcome! :) Matt

Lots of town and city stuff there - if you need encounters for them, email me at mythmere AT yahoo dot com and I'll send you the City Encounters pdf, if you don't already have it.

Thanks for bringing that up - I view Swords & Wizardry not just as a set of the 0e game rules, but also as a project to enable two things; free-form open ended gaming on one hand, and super-tinkering with the rules on the other. Both of those are characteristic of the 0e mindset "back in the...

There are two versions. The WhiteBox is pure, first three books 0e. The Core Rules adds the "power creep" of the First Supplement (GH), which involved the d8 hit die for monsters, increased damage for monsters, higher spell levels for magic-users and clerics, and various other material...

Well, it's a niche within a niche, but Knockspell Magazine is a magazine covering the OGL fantasy retro-clones, mainly Swords & Wizardry, OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and BFRPG. The link is to the pdf, but it's also in print-on-demand. It's probably awfully old-school for the type of list you're...

Originally Posted by Treebore Supplement III: Eldritch Wizardry -- I'd likely get the PDF version Other than from a gaming history aspect, not worth getting. There is a much better written version available on line, in the same way OSRIC is a good way to get the 1E rules. I think Mythmere...

Aha! Thanks, I didn't go to the "pre-made address labels" because the product was a pdf. I didn't expect to find the pdf instructions there. Thanks!

I've checked the ENnies site at The ENnie Awards Home Page and I'm not finding enough information - how to submit a pdf, how to send anything to the judges (ie, their addresses) ... is there another site with this information, or does more information get provided once the entry form is filled...

Swords & Wizardry (link to free download page) is a free retro-clone of 0e. Link is to the Core Rules, which use some material from the later 0e supplements. The pure first-three-books version, called Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox, can be downloaded HERE. Both are also available in .doc format...

Swords & Wizardry probably has the biggest jump from modern-type gaming of all the retro-clones, just because it goes all the way back to 0e. There's one version, Whitebox, for pure no-supplement 0e, and the Core Rules use some material from the supplements, most importantly the variable weapon...

There is definitely, definitely, definitely a distinction between the "old school" game-setting (e.g., megadungeon, focus on the player's pure skill without much focus on roleplaying, high mortality, etc) and the concept of "free-form" rules like Swords & Wizardry's. The free form nature of...

Mythmere Games, publisher and coordinator of the Swords & Wizardry 0e project, is pleased to announce: Knockspell Magazine, the magazine of the Swords & Wizardry 0e Project, old-style OGL gaming, and retro-clone fantasy gaming is now available in print as well as pdf. For the pdf, go HERE For...

Mythmere Games, publisher of Swords & Wizardry, is pleased to announce the release of Knockspell #1 (Winter, 2009). Knockspell magazine is the magazine of fantasy retro-clone gaming, and the content is all compatible with OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, 0e, 1e, and of course with Swords & Wizardry! The...

You guys talk. I'm busy drivin' my Chevy. :)

It's not nostalgia if it's what you actually play. Are all the 3e players out there suddenly doing so out of nostalgia? Is it about a mystical ideal? Of course not. Neither is it so with the 1e players. If you mean people who post about 1e but don't play it, then perhaps the question makes...

Look forward to seeing you there! A couple of interesting projects just started percolating on the boards within the last hour; a samurai interpretation of 0e ala Mazes & Minotaurs was to Greek myths - and I'm really pushing a SE Asian version, too... /threadjack, sorry, all!

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool oldschooler, and I wouldn't run TOH using anything but pre-gen characters. It's got to be approached with the attitude of: "this is the ultimate death-trap module, it's incredibly well designed as such, and it's really fun to play ... as long as you don't give a darn...

Made that switch in 2004, away from 3e into first C&C, then to 1e, then to 0e. I've played 4e, but it didn't grab me as an alternative to 0e. Whoever mentioned that he was looking for the 1e rules, they're for sale in pdf form, and if you want them free, download OSRIC as a starter kit before...

This is true or not true, depending on whether you're talking about your definition of old school (which is based on how the world interacts with the players) or whether you're looking at the way the rules operate. More on this to follow. I'd agree with this, and also agree that this part of...

I clicked 0e, although I'd use Swords & Wizardry (0e clone).