I would love to see his take on a megadungeon. It would be absolutely bananas.
OSR The Monster Overhaul
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Whizbang Dustyboots
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Have you seen Tomb of the Serpent Kings? Even for what's intended as being an introductory "teaching" dungeon, it goes off the rails pretty quickly, with the big showcase encounters on the bottom level all very memorable.
Oh yes I have, and a I love it for exactly that reason!
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Skerples' work on the Treasure Overhaul has reached the magic-items-containing-spells stage, which means he's tackling a generic/universal OSR spell list, starting with the illusionist.
As a longtime fan of the illusionist across game systems, this is a pretty good one, with some characteristic Skerples good ideas tossed in.
Other than removing Darkvision and capping Unlight at one hour, this makes a pretty good Shadowdark illusionist class, just swapping in the spell list for the rest of the wizard spell list.
Looking forward to this hitting Kickstarter in 2025 (he says, hoping).
As a longtime fan of the illusionist across game systems, this is a pretty good one, with some characteristic Skerples good ideas tossed in.
Other than removing Darkvision and capping Unlight at one hour, this makes a pretty good Shadowdark illusionist class, just swapping in the spell list for the rest of the wizard spell list.
Looking forward to this hitting Kickstarter in 2025 (he says, hoping).
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Quickleaf
Legend
Exxxxcellent.
I chuckled at their Glitterblast spell with duration "[caster level] days." Skerples clearly knows the evils of glitter sticking long after its welcome wears out.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
After months of radio silence, more Treasure Overhaul info, including its alchemist tables.
The tone of this really works for me. It feels a bit more low-fi than 5E (for one thing, it doesn't want you to have on-demand healing potions), but also a little more punk in its NPCs.
Not that he needs more stuff on his plate, but I'd love to see Skerples do another setting at some point.
But, per his blog, it seems like he runs his campaigns in Magical Industrial Revolution, which doesn't have quite the tone I want. (The book is basically the wizards of Ankh-Morpork + Bridgerton, which is a very funny combo, but it doesn't really have a place for the grotty adventurers that are in so many of my campaigns. I think I need something like Swyvers' The Smoke, but with places for standard D&D races.)
The tone of this really works for me. It feels a bit more low-fi than 5E (for one thing, it doesn't want you to have on-demand healing potions), but also a little more punk in its NPCs.
Not that he needs more stuff on his plate, but I'd love to see Skerples do another setting at some point.
But, per his blog, it seems like he runs his campaigns in Magical Industrial Revolution, which doesn't have quite the tone I want. (The book is basically the wizards of Ankh-Morpork + Bridgerton, which is a very funny combo, but it doesn't really have a place for the grotty adventurers that are in so many of my campaigns. I think I need something like Swyvers' The Smoke, but with places for standard D&D races.)
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Yeah, this is a day one pledge for me, for sure.
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