By B/X compatible I just mean not so dependent on a particular system’s ruleset that it would be a significant undertaking to drop it into a typical OSR game.
I found this old post regarding Alternative Magic Systems, which has lots great options listed. There’s also glog’s dice pool which is one of my favorites (at least theoretically as I haven’t actually put it to use).
Anyone know of anything that has been put out in the the last several years that is either new or a novel take on an existing system (or just really obscure and to often discussed)?
just learned about Swyvers which also uses a deck of cards and from my understanding incorporates some form of Blackjack into the mechanic. Going to delve into it and your Wormy suggestion tomorrow. Thanks!
We experimented with one I wrote up here awhile back Alternative Spell Casting that utilizes one of my favorite things: The Turning Undead Table. It was pretty fun for the Players to have to contend with those gambles for more castings and being able to overcast a little bit right out of the gate
I’m looking at pressing the Turn Undead Table for illusions. I’m thinking that the table would affect creatures by HD, instead of looking at spell level. Thus, an Enchanter (Illusionist) would roll to find out how many HD worth of creatures the illusion affects. I haven’t done any more testing that simply some idle rolling on the table to see how it feels, so it may change drastically before I’m done.
