The Hobgoblin Bride Review — 5 Hobgoblin Brides for 17 Hobgoblin Brothers

I like adventures and I like short, cheap adventures, since they tend to be easier to use. Aegis Studios has put out a line of those for their Basic Fantasy RPG based Odysseys and Overlords, but for the most part, they have been unspiring and formulaic.  Get a Dyson Logos map (a tiny one at that), slap down a few encounters with standard low level monsters, pad the page count with a long cut and paste intro about the setting and the system licenses and boom, you have a module.

The Hobgoblins Bride by Megan Irving sticks to that formula, but manages to transcend it, at least somewhat, it's still limited in scope. The premise is that a bunch of hobgoblin women have been kidnapped by an all male hobgoblin band. One of the lady hobgoblins manages to escape and seeks help to rescue the remaining ones. Which the party is asked to do. Here it's somewhat assumed the PCs will do it because they are good and a church asks them to. I'm not sure that's a good enough motivation for typical old school players.

Robots: A New Character Class Review — Not Enough Distinctive Mechanics For Mechanical Men

 Robots! Although arguably the heyday for them in fiction was the 1950s, I discovered Isaac Asmiov as a teenager in the early 80s, a man who probably put more thought into his robot stories than anyone. I also later discovered the works of Clifford Simak, who although lacking the scientific background of Asimov and typically writing stories in a pastoral setting, absolutely loved robots. Not as props, but heavily developed characters. 

Robots from Sharp Mountain Games is not the first attempt to bring a robot character class to the OSR.  The first was perhaps the Automaton class from Barrel Rider Games (flavorful, but like the UA Barbarian, saddled with huge XP costs), and a couple years ago, I came up with the OSR Android. This though is more like the more traditional SF robot, the sort favored by Simak. At least in flavor.

Basic Fantasy RPG 3rd Edition now in print at Lulu

The Basic Fantasy RPG recently got upgraded to 3rd Edition, and now it's available in print at Lulu for $9.35, which I think it at cost.

Not sure what is new. I got my copy from Amazon last year when my power company gave me a gift card for answering a survey, and I think that version was solid.

Basic Fantasy RPG 3rd Edition almost finished

I don't imagine it's much different rules wise than previous editions, but the 3rd edition of it is available to download and they are looking for feedback before it goes to print.

Free Module—The Last Princess

The Last Princess is a module from the Gagmen, who I think have a podcast or something. It's for 8-10 level characters and written for the Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game, so pretty much compatible with everything OSR, except it uses ascending AC

Deep in the jungle lies the ruins of the ancient civilization of the Ditani, now overrun with arachno-apes and other jungle savages. Our heroes are hired by the great explorer Raeyon, the lady Ipeneth and their team to help them find and capture the legendary Gyanki’don, a massive arachno-ape rumored to protect the natives from harm. When the group stumbles upon the village of the Coleco tribe, they find themselves at the whim of a crazy witch doctor and his half- baked ideas, which may lead the entire tribe to a grizzly and badly planned demise. When the Witch Doctor decides to sacrifice the Lady Ipeneth to Gyanki’don, the party must chase the giant arachno-ape and his new hostage to the pyramid of Li’kani. Can the party survive the horrors of the Pyramid and recue the beautiful damsel? Will the video game references contained within overpower the rest of the adventure? Will the witch Doctor succeed in accidently killing off his entire tribe? Discover the answers and the punchlines as you and your party search through jungles and temples for “The Last Ditani Princess.”