The RPG Tinkerage

Dragonbane from Free League is a branch of the RuneQuest/Basic Roleplaying mechanics, where the d20 and not the d100 is used to resolve ac...

The 2008 edition of Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying (BRP), a solid book with a bright yellow cover and distinctive cover design, is often ...

Here’s a thing that can sometimes happen when someone is interested in starting out with play the world or FKR gaming: New Referee: I want t...

So for about a year, the Tinkerage has been playing various editions, mainly the 5th, of the game with the ampersand in the title. This has ...

One of the intriguing sections of the old Iron Crown Enterprises modules for Middle-earth using MERP or Rolemaster (MERP/RM) was the sectio...

If you find yourself flicking through one RPG system, like Imperium Maledictum , and thinking to yourself that it could be played with XD20 ...

Mostly, all you need is a d6. Here are a couple of compact six-sided die tools developed for inspiration and guidance when either playing so...

There's no doubt here that Basic Roleplaying is an excellent system that's surprisingly easy for beginners, adaptable, and can suppo...

 It's been a while: some random notes and impressions. Roll a d6: 1. Warhammer FRP 4E The Old World is still as cool, dark, and evocativ...

The scenario is the bridge between the characters and the world. But how do your characters find themselves gathered at the Many Ways Inn? R...

The OSR movement (the Old School Rules/Revival/Renaissance, etc.) has, over the years, brought to light a lot of interesting rules and ideas...

 In the first Play all the Books post , I tinkered with solo play and roll-and-read rules in the "play the world" style, mixing in...

Fighting Fantasy (the minimal gamebook rules ) could be enough of a framework for rule-light, freeform gaming, with a little judgement and t...

Under pandemic restrictions, the Tinkerage is confined to home and taking the opportunity to play Green Dragon style scenarios with two novi...

The Tinkerage has been experimenting with solo roleplaying as a way to test some of the freeform, light and Play the World concepts with h...

As outlined in the last post on playing the world with freeform, light rules, creating a character becomes a process of developing a descr...

After reading The Black Hack , reviews of Whitehack , and Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells (yet another "Hack" system hack)... ...

Excursion : a short journey or trip, especially one engaged in as a leisure activity. This contains nothing really new in terms of optio...

The Tinkerage is all for adapting and combining the best of different systems, hence BRP Middle-earth and other rules hacks, but here are s...

A while back, the Tinkerage attempted an XD20-style hack of the minimalist d20 RPG Sword and Backpack. The Sword Peddler has, without a...