I have recently discovered Brian Mathers' blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain's blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Microlite20 seems to focus on Microlite74 and Microlite5e. Here is a small sample of his Microlite20/74/5e posts: M74 - Ratfolk: A Player Race for Microlite74 M74 - Minotaur: A Player Race for Microlite74 M20: Rogue Talents Microlite5e: Fighter Talents Microlite5e: Warlock The Gnomish Embassy also features well-developed characters and monsters for these (and many other games). It is one of the most interesting and useful blogs I've discovered ..read more

I've been playing and gamemastering tabletop roleplaying games since 1975 and I have dealt with a lot of character deaths, both my own characters and characters of players in the games I'm running. I've even had a few former players die over the years -- long after they had left my game. However, I've never had a player currently in my game die -- until last week that is.   James texted me Monday evening asking if he could drop by on his way home from work Tuesday to drop off a couple of books he had borrowed and grab a couple more. Tuesday afternoon, when he didn't show up, I call ..read more

Interested in the First Edition of the world's most popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game, but put off by its seemingly random mechanics and design elements? Interested in trying some of the best known First Edition adventures with old school play but want to use the "better designed" D20-style mechanics you already know. The second edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite is the game for you. These rules take the First Edition rules and filter them though the D20-based Microlite20 system to produce a conversion of the First Edition rules to a rules-lite D20-based system that encourages ..read more

Labor Day Sale -- 40% Off Celebrate Labor day with 40% off all RetroRoleplaying.com games, including BX Advanced, Microlite81 Expanded Edition, and Microlite74 Ultimate Edition. This sale ends sometime on September 4th. * BX Advanced $9.95 -- Sale Price: $5.97 * Dungeon Delving Undying Light Edition $3.99 -- Sale Price: $2.39 * Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition $7.50 -- Sale Price: $4.50 * Microlite74 Basic Digest/Epub $1.99 -- Sale Price: $1.19 * Microlite74 Extended Digest/Epub $3.99 -- Sale Price: $2.39 * Microlite74 Standard Digest/Epub $2.99 -- Sale Price: $1.79 * Microlite74 Swords &a ..read more

The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition is now available. Microlite20 is a tiny version of 3.x designed to allow use of 3.x supplements and adventures without all of the complex 3.x rules. In its raw form, Microlite20 and its more important optional and supplemental sections are a hodge-podge of short pdfs produced by different people and formatted however the producer of that section wanted. The Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition takes all this material and combines it in one document -- all formatted the same and somewhat reorganized in places to m ..read more

I've finally decided to bite the bullet and move this blog to a self-hosted Wordpress site. Blogger has been great, but I would really like to revive this blog and I think moving to Wordpress where I have more control and more options will help. By revive this blog, I mean talk about games again instead of just the projects I'm working on. Unless you are really into my current projects, this blog has become boring and I need to shake it up a bit. More importantly, I need to shake me up a bit and get out of the rut of only talking about my projects. I think moving to this blog to Wordpress with ..read more

The paid version of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition is now available. The free version will be out early next week. If you buy the paid version of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition you will receive the following: a pdf of the single-column digest-sized version -- 164 pages, with art a pdf of the two-column letter-sized version -- 68 pages, with art a pdf of the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Player's Guide -- 10 pages, no art: has all the player-facing rules (plus equipment and spell lists) and is designed to be printed and given to players. epub and mobi ebook versions of the M ..read more

Coming next week: the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition. As I mentioned about a week ago, I discovered a copy of a game I was working on in 2015 on my drive. I have finished it up and will be releasing it next week. The price for the paid version will probably be $7.50. What is the Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition? In its raw form, Microlite20 and its more important optional and supplemental sections are a hodge-podge of pdfs produced by different people and formated however the producer of that section wanted. The Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition takes all this material and combines it in ..read more

Queue the Twilight Zone theme song. I was cleaning up the projects area of my hard drive this morning. I found a game, Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition, that I apparently worked on and finished in 2015. I somehow forgot about it. All it needs is layout. How could I have forgotten an entire game? I know we were dealing with a lot of doctor visits for my wife that year, but still, how could a complete game have slipped my mind? I vaguely remember putting it together for players in my old Waco group who wanted a version of Microlite20 that incorporated a lot of the early extensions and additions ..read more

It's been about two and a half years since I've had to do a fund-raising drive to help pay for my wife's many medical issues (oral cancer survivor, spine issues, and now multiple sclerosis). This is due to moving to a state that expanded medicaid so my wife has insurance that actually covers most stuff. So we no longer have 20% co-pays on her MRIs, CT Scans, and other expensive procedures she has to have regularly. Unfortunately, there are some things that are not covered. Most are not a large expense. However, the current example, glasses, is a large expense. Glasses are covered -- or they a ..read more