The Evils of Illmire is Complete!
All stretch goals are complete! Also, check out the new fully-illustrated pregen characters by DC Stow!
Read more...Spellsword Studios
I'm Zack Wolf. I make digital and analog entertainment with a focus on innovative design and a classic style.
The Evils of Illmire is now available! Get it now here!
All stretch goals are complete! Also, check out the new fully-illustrated pregen characters by DC Stow!
Read more...Introducing Pitfalls & Pathways, a fantasy adventure game attempting to balance OSR with PbtA in a useable and nostalgic way.
Read more...This is a quick overview the inventory system for the upcoming OSR+PbtA game Pitfalls & Pathways. It hopefully strikes a pleasant balance between simplicity, fictional detail, and gamey-ness.
Read more...Illmire is creeping towards an old-school table near you! It's crazy to see something you made out there in the wild.
Read more...The Evils of Illmire is now available on ExaltedFuneral.com!
Read more...An actual play report from 2012 posted on Story-Games.com. Re-posting it here for posterity (and because it's a good RPG memory for me).
Read more...The Evils of Illmire: A Mini-Mega Hexcrawl Adventure Zine is a 68-page dark fantasy adventure for 4-6 player characters level 1-3. Built for OSR Systems including Old School Essentials, Labyrinth Lord, and 0D&D. Crowdfunding now!
Read more...A blend of the hex crawl and the point crawl: the zone crawl is an alternative method for GMs to track player positioning and travel time during overland journeys.
Read more...Get a free hex map to make your own maps with, or download the source files so you can create your own hex map.
Read more...A variety of unfinished projects, half-baked experimental rules, and neat little mini-games. There's more where this came from; it'll show up over time.
Read more...‍Regale me with chronicles unheard and stories undreamt, of an age before time when the mountains were still young and the skies yet glittered with the vast tapestry of a cosmos now adrift to the farthest aeons.
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