Here's my shot. I tried to keep the elements of dark elves, dark, elves, and drow...but mix them up and change emPHAsis. "Night Elves" Far underground lives a race of cooly beautiful elves with alabaster skin and hair like skeins of silk. There, away from the despotic sun which sunders the...

Sol, have you soken to any of the other OSR designers out there? On social media I see a hundred different creators making a hundred different OGL-free games. I saw a creator asking for a synonym of Wisdom! Is it possible or desireable to create an OSR “SRD” (if you will) under a Creative Commons Sh...

As in any game, a law may be just words in a book until a court makes a ruling carried out by humans. Does “in perpetuity” differ from “irrevocable”? Someone will have to rule on that. “Rulings over rules” isn’t just for games on a tabletop. The big initial impact will be that what is posted on Driv...

deadPan c, The way initiative works in the game which inspired BFRPG is this: GM silently decides what the foes will do. Then the players announce what each character will do. (The GM should not change the foes plans based on the plans the players announced.) Then, each side rolls initiative. The wi...

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Hi Chris, Why did you choose not to emulate the “morale, movement, missile, magic, melee” initiative system? I have no experience with it as I have only played 2nd Ed. and later of the world’s most popular roleplaying game, but it seems exciting to me and solves the question of when a caster or rang...

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I wonder if I missed some explanation about the combination classes available to elves. Please let me know if I've got it right: 1. A level 1/1 elf fighter/magic-user has 1d6 HP. 2. He needs 4500 XP to level up. Once gained, the elf is now a 2/2 level fighter/magic-user. 2. Attack bonuses, spells, a...