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Stuffed Crocodile<p><strong>ttrpg fortunes</strong></p> <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fortune-fail.webp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>fortune</code></a> </strong>is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”. </p><p>To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fortune cookies</a>. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously. </p><p>You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates <em>were </em>functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task). </p><p>What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well. </p><p>You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured <code>fortune </code>to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>cowsay</code></a> which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out. </p><pre><code> ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady. / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||</code></pre><p>There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find <a href="https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/fortunes/discworld" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discworld quotes</a>, or, I dunno, your favorite <a href="https://github.com/JKirchartz/fortunes/blob/master/chuckfacts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chuck Norris facts</a>.</p><p>Anyway, I was futzing around with our <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/chat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IRC network</a> lately and while playing around with a bot that could use <code>fortune</code>, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).</p><p>So I decided to make one.</p><p>Right now it’s only a small page on <a href="https://campaignwiki.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">campaignwiki.org</a>: <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage</a> but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.</p><p>If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there. </p> <p><strong>Rate this:</strong></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" target="_blank">#dnd</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/fortune/" target="_blank">#fortune</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/osr/" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" target="_blank">#rpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/unix/" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/wargames/" target="_blank">#Wargames</a></p>
💉😷🌿🇺🇦🇺🇳🇪🇺Oiselarius (he/him)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@stjepanlukac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stjepanlukac</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dice.camp/@Xenograg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Xenograg</span></a></span> I backed TotV and for 5e it’s great. Personally I’m with The Arcane Library and Kelsey’s <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Shadowdark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shadowdark</span></a> …it’s 5e’s basics with an <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> sensibility.</p>
martin<p>More <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TheHobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheHobbit</span></a> quotes:</p><p>"It was deep, deep, dark, such as only goblins that have taken to living in the heart of the mountain can see through."</p><p>This resonates with the idea of the mythic underworld (<a href="https://saveversusallwands.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-dungeon-as-mythic-underworld.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">saveversusallwands.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2017/05/the-dungeon-as-mythic-underworld.html</span></a>). It's less about this race can see in the dark and this one can't, but that deep darkness is a thing you become part of, and then it becomes part of you - that creatures are changed by becoming denizens of the underworld.</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hobbit</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tolkien</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/MythicUnderworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MythicUnderworld</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a></p>
Francisco Lemos<p>Playing with colors</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/rpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/fantasyart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasyart</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/bestiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestiary</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpgart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpgart</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dnd</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Day 14
Create a small table of random encounters for the mountains in the west (7,3; 8,2; 8,3; 8,4; 9,3; 9,4) Consider: How many entries should your table have? 1d4, 1d6 …? 
Note that not all encounters need to involve hostile creatures. You can also include other events in your table: weather phenomena, landmarks, encounters with NPCs, wildlife, omens. Determine when the table should be consulted, e.g., "when crossing: 2-in-6 chance." <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldbuilding</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Tag 14: Erstelle eine kleine Tabelle mit Zufallsbegegnungen für die Berg-Hexagone im Westen (7,3; 8,2; 8,3; 8,4; 9,3; 9,4). Wieviele Einträge soll deine Tabelle umfassen? 1W4, 1W6 …? Nicht bei allen Begegnungen muss es sich um feindlich gesonnene Wesen handeln. Du kannst natürlich auch andere Ereignisse in Deine Tabelle einbinden: Wetterphänomene, Landmarken, Begegnungen mit NSCs, Omen. Lege fest, wann die Tabelle konsultiert werden muss, z.B. „bei Querung: 2-in-6 Chance“ <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a></p>
Xenograg<p>An OSR approach to Spotlight</p><p><a href="https://permacrandam.blogspot.com/2023/08/an-osr-approach-to-spotlight.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">permacrandam.blogspot.com/2023</span><span class="invisible">/08/an-osr-approach-to-spotlight.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DnD</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BlogosphereFinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogosphereFinds</span></a></p>
Nathan<p>Any <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Traveller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Traveller</span></a> supplement discuss how a post-capitalism TL, or private ownership divergent society might operate?</p><p>Is there like a "Beyond Capital" article for Traveller?</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a></p><p>Thanks!</p>
Moreau Vazh<p>WHY DOES YOCHAI, THE LARGEST OSR DESIGNER NOT SIMPLY EAT THE SMALLER <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> DESIGNERS?</p>
lumipate<p>Ending the day after the publication of my first adventure and I'm quite surprised with the amount of views and downloads it got! </p><p>I hope those of you who got it are enjoying the read, and I invite you to leave reviews on the page!</p><p>For those who haven't seen it yet, I'll make your search easier and leave this here: <a href="https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-du</span><span class="invisible">st-in-altellas-tea-house</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPG</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Day 13: Write a short description for hexagons 8,4 and 9,4 located in the southwest of the island (mountain symbols).<br><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Tag 13: Verfasse eine Kurzbeschreibung für die Hexagone 8,4 und 9,4 im Südwesten der Insel (Bergsymbole). <br><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dice.camp/@IcarusGames" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IcarusGames</span></a></span> I‘m (just now!) working on an <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> zine, while listening to a postpunk show on mixcloud hosted by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norden.social/@bauhausmensch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bauhausmensch</span></a></span> and having a beer 🙂 No gaming for me this weekend, but might run a session of Warlock! next week at our open table.</p>
Xenograg<p>Inverted Target 20: Trained/Untrained</p><p><a href="https://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/2024/05/inverted-target-20-traineduntrained.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/</span><span class="invisible">2024/05/inverted-target-20-traineduntrained.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DnD</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BlogosphereFinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogosphereFinds</span></a></p>
lumipate<p>Fairy Dust in Altella's Tea House is out!</p><p>This is a FREE OSR adventure, with a cosy vibe, that you can easily slot into your ongoing fantasy campaign! </p><p>Get it at <a href="https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-du</span><span class="invisible">st-in-altellas-tea-house</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPG</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/selfpromo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfpromo</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Day 12: Write a short description for hexagons 7,3; 8,2; 8,3, and 9,3 located in the northwest of the island (mountain symbols).<br><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a></p>
Bodo Heye<p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/HexIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HexIsland</span></a> Tag 12: Verfasse eine Kurzbeschreibung für die Hexagone 7,3; 8,2; 8,3 und 9,3 im Nordwesten der Insel (Bergsymbole).<br><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osr</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a></p>
Xenograg<p>Active Not Passive</p><p><a href="https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2021/10/active-not-passive.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2021/10/a</span><span class="invisible">ctive-not-passive.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DnD</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BlogosphereFinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogosphereFinds</span></a></p>
Stuffed Crocodile<p><strong>[Star Wars] Deathstars &amp; Droids (was: Star Wars – Galactic&nbsp;Adventures)</strong></p><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/swga.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p>Ages ago (2011?) I found a Star Wars OSR retroclone called Star Wars – Galactic Adventures on the venerable wizardawn.com page, now lost to the wages of net history.</p><p>(…that was before there was an actual Star Wars product, <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Galactic_Adventures_(2015)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a kids’ book</a>, using the same title…)</p><p>For some reason it never really caught on in the glut of B/X rules variations at the time, and when people were thinking about doing an old school DnD kind of flavor of Star Wars they seem to mostly do their own thing afterwards, trying to clone it into <a href="https://wastedlandsfantasy.blogspot.com/2019/01/star-wars-with-od.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">White Box DnD for example,</a> or things like that.</p><p>And of course there’s the whole point that the whole structure of old school Dungeons and Dragons does not really fit with most people’s idea about the Star Wars universe. And believe me, people have tried. They even tried it officially, there were after all multiple editions of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Roleplaying_Game_(Wizards_of_the_Coast)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">licensed Star Wars roleplaying game from Wizards of the Coast</a> to cash in on the prequels and the concurrent release of 3e.</p><p>And yet when you ask people about Star Wars as a tabletop roleplaying game most people will go back to the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Roleplaying_Game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">West End Games D6 Star Wars game</a>. That one seems to have captured the sheer cinematic feel of the setting and the hearts of Star Wars fans.</p><p>In fact, they did so more than you might even realize: at a time when there was not much more Star Wars stuff coming after the first three movies it was the D6 Star Wars system that came up with new information about the whole setting. When Timothy Zahn started writing his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Heirs to the Empire trilogy</a>, which kickstarted the whole expanded universe started coming together, he was given a setting guide of the West End Games RPG as a guide. Arguably the Roleplaying Game shaped the whole of Star Wars afterwards. Even things like Coruscant were introduced first in the game, then the novels, and only showed up in the actual movies very belatedly.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2nn_q1xAXI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2nn_q1xAXI</a></p><p>(Specifically Coruscant first appeared on screen in the 1997 Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, and no, younglings, that small snippet wasn’t even there in the first release. In fact the current version on Disney+ is an even more altered version that shows Naboo as well).</p><p>Which of course goes to say that… yeah, I don’t actually want to play the D6 system. It’s fine. It’s a fine system. I appreciate it. But I kinda want to do a Star Wars DnD game. And not the D20 system either. The whole trend of putting the D20 system EVERYWHERE was a cancer on the hobby in the early 2000s.</p><p>I want to play Star Wars as if it was a DnD ripoff from the early 80s. Like what Starships and Spacemen basically did for Star Trek (before there was a proper Star Trek RPG). </p><p>Anyway, D20 Star Wars was not bad as D20 variants go…</p><p>…but I really enjoyed this little retroclone when I found it. You see, D20 Star Wars did an interesting thing where they put much more emphasis onto saving rolls than normal D20 DnD had. And this was something done here as well. In a way it feels like the author took D20 SW and retro-fitted it into a B/X framework, which is way more work than I would have done but also kind of cool.</p><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ralph-mcquarrie-stormtrooper-designs-2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p>By this point I am on my second house-ruled version of it. I took the original document and condensed it down into a variation I called Darths and Droids (after the the <a href="https://www.darthsanddroids.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eponymous webcomic </a>which imagines the movies as a science-fiction DnD campaign), while using all kinds of Ralphy McQuarry concept art for it. Lately I did that again, condensed my previous version even further, and replaced all the art with black and white art I found on the net (also because we only have a black and white printer at home), and called it Deathstars and Droids. </p><a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/classic-allen-nunis-star-wars-art-v0-e0qestvvgidd1.webp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p>I think I need a better name for that.</p><p>Anyway, the actual reason I was doing that was because my kids are really into Star Wars lately, both the movies, the animated series, and playing the last LEGO game, and I was hoping that it would be a good way to introduce them to roleplaying. </p><p>My older son already decided he wants to play a <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B1-series_battle_droid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B1 battle droid</a>, which kinda killed my ideas for the first few scenarios I had. Oh well.</p><p>I also have to adapt the rather freeform droid rules into something that gives him the satisfaction of playing a B1 droid instead.</p><p>Which goes to explain why there might be some Star Wars content coming up on the blog which doesn’t actually concern any game you might have heard of. </p> <p><strong>Rate this:</strong></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/osr/" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" target="_blank">#rpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/starwars/" target="_blank">#starwars</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/starwarsrpg/" target="_blank">#starwarsrpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a></p>
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