Matt Finch and Suzy discuss the evolution of OSRIC 3, the success of the Tome of Adventure Design, and the reality of running a DIY roleplaying games publisher.
White Box Cyclopedia: Five decades of dungeon crawling fund on Kickstarter
The pitch is that the White Box Cyclopedia is that it’s not the original Swords & Wizardry White Box with extra content (some 200 pages) but a ‘what if…’ of D&D’s Dave and Gary remaining friends.
Tome of Adventure Design: System-neutral RPG ideas book takes in tens of thousands
Mythmere Games was founded by a graphic designer, Suzy Moseby, who works with companies like Dwarven Forge, Chessex and Alliance, and Matt Finch, who created OSRIC and is an ENnie-winning Swords & Wizardry game designer.
Free to Download: OSRIC 1e (400+ pages of AD&D retro-clone)
OSRIC, Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a recreation of AD&D 1e published in 2006. It’s one of the first and most successful D&D retro-clones.
Necromancer Games Kickstarts D&D 5e range before agreeing license with WotC
Dungeons & Dragons 5e is barely out; you can download D&D Basic or buy the Starter Set. You would think that without the licensing rules for the game that third party publishers can’t yet write products either. Necromancer Games, though, is back from a torpor to produce D&D 5e books and have raised nearly all […]
