Lone Horizons

Wallet Dungeons is a tiny dungeon generator available as pay what you want from AwkwardTurtle. I grabbed it the other day and thought I'd try it out using Scarlet Heroes, my favourite game for solo play. The way Wallet Dungeons works is you roll "a handful" of D6s and push them together on the table so they're all touching. Each one represents a room of a dungeon and the numbers give you more info on those rooms. This is going to be a very quick dungeon crawl as I only own five D6s, so we'll get a classic five room dungeon. First let's make our hero. I don't have a cleric character in my long running Scarlet Heroes campaign so let's try making one. As usual for Scarlet Heroes we'll go down the line of attributes rolling 4D6 and dropping the lowest. Strength:  4 (-2) Dexterity:  8 (-1) Constitution:  12 Intelligence:  12 Wisdom:  12 Charisma:  12 Wow, not a great result. Luckily SH lets us rearrange those stats and says if no roll is 16 or better, ...

Introduction The Riddle of Steel is an RPG by Driftwood Publishing from the early 2000s which apparently became pretty popular on its release, generated a lot of interest and then faded away into obscurity. From what I can find online it seems the designers made some bad choices in terms of expansions for the game and the company went under. It's very gritty and brutal with rare but powerful magic that prematurely ages wizards who fumble their spells, and a very  detailed combat system that reminds me of real life fencing. A bit like what I've heard about Harnmaster. The game is long out of print and very rare, and the company's website has disappeared. Luckily the Quickstart Rules are still online, so let's make a couple of characters and have them fight! Character Creation We're going to make two noblemen from the land of Cyrinthmeir, a rich feudal state ruled over by its king and the Gathering of Lords. The dastardly Count Ofrich has insulted Count Ansert's ...