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Strange Brew
An uber-lite rules hack for Old School Roleplaying Games. No preamble. WIP. Hacked and Smashed and Inspired By: Knave by Ben MiltonDie Trying by the Slight Adjustments blog Into the Odd by Chris McDowallMedieval Occupations and Careers blogpost by the Iron-Bound TomeDungeon Crawl Classics Art Generated in Midjourney AI and theoretically to be painted over by Yours Truly The PDF is A4 sized and pretty print-friendly if you don't print the cover/title page. Any feedback is much appreciated. The game has so far been fairly extensively playtested by a dozen very loud third graders and a couple parties of adult adventurers.
Price:
$0.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 3 reviews)
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