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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 7263220" data-attributes="member: 694">So, way back in 2007 or so, when the OSR was first gaining steam, I tried to inject a little steam-punkery into the proceedings with some little modules and booklets that eventually became a campaign setting, the Engines & Empires Campaign Compendium.In the intervening years, I learned a lot more about old-school play, I gamed a hell of a lot, and I saw other creative publishers put out some amazing innovations.Eventually, it came to the point where it felt like Engines & Empires needed more than just a new edition; it needed to be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tML85kQfy0c" target="_blank">its own thing</a>—its own game.  And so I did that.Now E&E is a standalone OSR game that focuses on the basics: mega dungeons, hex crawls, ten levels of gameplay, fairy tale races and magic, folkloric monsters and items, and of course gadgets and inventions.The Core Rules is a 264 page rule-book.  The Gaia setting from the old Campaign Compendium is now its own 72 page booklet.  Both remain free to download (so, hey, no reason not to take a look, right?); the Core Rules are available in print as a hardcover, the World of Gaia setting as a paperback.<a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jack_daniel_327" target="_blank">Check it out!</a></blockquote>