Issue 2 Contents

Issue 2 of Oubliette is due for realease at the end of next week.

Here's an advance look at the contents:

• Tales from Hell - A new cartoon strip 
• Monster Club #3 - Skeletons
• Hornet Hill - 9 page Labyrinth Lord Adventure
• Monster Club #4 - Creeping Statue
• Inheritance Part III - Character Classes
• Firearm Rules for Labyrinth Lord
• Good Shop / Bad Shop
• Reviews
• Mouse Watch - Cartoon strip
• The Song of Sithakk - Our serialized story

Readers' Wives April

A new, openly sexist feature, for the blog to fill the void, whilst I'm busy working on the layout of the next issue.

I'll put up a contents list for issue 2 next week.

Free to Download Advanced Character Sheets

I've put 2 sets of character sheets up on rpgnow as free downloads.  Each set contains 3 blank character sheets designed for use with the Advanced Edition Companion rules for Labyrinth Lord.  There are 2 versions of this product UK English and US English.  The only difference between them is the spelling of the word ARMOUR/ARMOR.  

Each set includes a standard character sheet, a version for spellcasters and a version for thieves.  I created them as the adventure in the next issue of Oubliette will come with optional pregen characters.  I was aiming for an old school home-made look - sort of PDF version - of what I might have done by hand 30 years ago on graph paper but better.

I'm happy for these to be shared, copied and hosted as FREE downloads.

Here are the links to them:

UK English Character Sheets 

US English Character Sheets

Halfling Proof Fence Game Images

As mentioned in the magazine, here's some images of the large-scale map and counters that I used for play-testing Halfling Proof Fence (the adventure in the first issue).

Issue 1 On Sale Now!

The launch issue of Oubliette is now available for download at rpgnow.com for just $2.00

I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing some feedback.

Issue 1 Contents

I'm just finishing off the layout for issue one. It should be on sale before Easter. Here's a list of what will be in it:

• Editorial
• Monster Club #1 
• Halfling Proof Fence: A Labyrinth Lord adventure for 26 nasty characters 
• Inheritance Part 1: A Fantasy Campaign Setting 
• Developing House Rules for Labyrinth Lord 
• Sample House Rules for Labyrinth Lord 
• Alternative Subdual Rules for Labyrinth Lord: Don't just kill things! Knock them out, torture them, then kill them!
• Improvised Traps: Fun trap ideas for characters to try at home 
• Monster Club #2 
• Good Shop / Bad Shop: Meet The Rentalist, mysterious purveyor of powerful artefacts 
• What's in the Oubliette? Reviews of: The Turntracker, Dead Tower Island and Caprica 
• Mouse Watch 
• The Song of Sithakk: Our Epic Dwarven Serial. Part I: The Warrior

Rationale for the magazine

After a 15 year break from gaming two of my old friends met up with me last summer and we decided to start playing again.  One of them told us about a game called Labyrinth Lord and since then we've not looked back.  We meet up around once a month and already have 2 campaigns on the go.

Playing again had me sorting through boxes of old magazines and games from the attic with rediscovered interest.  After flipping through some early back issues of White Dwarf I got thinking how great it would be to have a magazine that would suit gaming's old school renaissance.  When I thought some more, I decided that I could produce one, and two days later I'd had a list of ideas for articles a couple of pages long and the name.

I plan to release the first issue of the magazine in April and it will be a $2 download from www.rpgnow.com  I'm currently working on the layout but expect the magazine to be 30+ pages for the launch.

Next week I'll put up a contents list for the first issue.