Black Pudding 5 Print Edition Out Now!

Printed editions of Black Pudding 5 are now available to order from the Squarehex site using the following links:

https://squarehex.myshopify.com/products/black-pudding-issue-5

Black Pudding Issue 5

FOSSIL Booklets and new Mapping Pads

Hot on the heels of Black Pudding Issue 4, which landed last week. I now have the print copies of the FOSSIL B/X Character Generation booklets. They cost £1 each, or you can buy 3 for £2, or 10 for £5. This makes them cheap enough to buy in bulk and give one to each player to keep.

You may find them here:
https://squarehex.myshopify.com/search?q=fossil

Also new to the site are 3 new DL sized (210mm x 99mm) paper pads:

Double Grid Pad
https://squarehex.myshopify.com/collections/square-hex-pads/products/dl-double-grid-pad

Dot Grid Pad
https://squarehex.myshopify.com/collections/square-hex-pads/products/dl-dot-grid-pad

Tri List Pad
https://squarehex.myshopify.com/collections/square-hex-pads/products/dl-tri-list-pad

Black Pudding 4 Print Edition Out Now!

Printed editions of Black Pudding 4 are now available to order.

Black Pudding Issue 4

Copies may also be ordered from the Squarehex site using the following link:

https://squarehex.myshopify.com/products/black-pudding-issue-4

FOSSIL B/X Character Generation Booklet

FOSSIL (Fantasy Old School System Index Lite) is a bare bones OSR system that is roughly compatible with B/X rules and retroclones (the rules have parity with Labyrinth Lord). This first booklet covers character generation and advancement.

The booklet is just 12 small pages (landscape DL 210x105mm) yet includes everything needed to generate and equip a B/X character. It also includes advancement rules to tenth level, combat and damage tables, full descriptions for first level cleric and magic-user spells, and a blank character sheet.

There are two versions of the PDF. The first one gives clerics a spell at first level. Whereas the second one gives clerics their first spell at second level and follows strict B/X spell progression for clerics thereafter. Otherwise they are identical.

Professionally printed copies of this booklet will be available from Squarehex.co.uk in April 2018. I hope to include a sticker with each printed copy that will allow the alternate cleric spell advancement to added as an option. My aim with the printed edition is to make it very low cost so that a GM can give out a copy to each player at the table for minimum outlay.

Work on the second booklet with Game Mastering rules is underway. Following that there will be a Spells booklet and possibly a Monsters booklet. In addition there is also my B/X Monster Reference Index which is already available in print and PDF.

The PDF cost $1 from RPGNOW.com: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/237131/FOSSIL-B-X-Character-Generation

More B/X Booklet Pages

Here's two more pages from my B/X Character Generation booklet. I should have Magic-User and Thief pages done by tomorrow. The blank spaces will get filled with some artwork, but I'll leave that until I've finished all the layout in case things move around a bit.

B/X Character Generation Booklet

I hoped to have got a lot further with FOSSIL (fantasy old school system index lite) ideas by now. However, things are moving again with it, and I thought I'd share the first page of a little booklet I'm working on.

The finished booklet will be 12 or 16 pages and should include most of what is needed to generate and run characters from levels 1-10. Spell descriptions will only be included for 1st level, but full spell descriptions might go in a future booklet. The content is all written and some of the layout is complete. I hope to have it out in PDF and print before Christmas. The booklet will be DL sized (210mm x 105mm) and in landscape format.

The back page of the booklet will be a Character sheet based on my recent mug design.