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I used to crochet about 20 years ago. I still have some scarves.

I miss gaming. I created the Wayfarers rpg in 2008, and released a second edition in 2012. The second edition was distributed by Mongoose Publishing, who never paid me. In free time I used to work on the third and final edition.

I'll finish it someday, but I don't have that kind of time atm.

I want to start gaming again too. There isn't anything like a good tabletop rpg session.





veen  ·  1498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I created the Wayfarers rpg in 2008, and released a second edition in 2012.

I didn't think I could think any better of you, but here we are. Knowing only 5e and a bit of Call of Chtuhlu: what do you think of 'regular' D&D? Design-wise, what were you going for with yours?

mk  ·  1497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aw shucks. Wayfarers originated from a skill system derivation of 1E and 2E that our group played for about 12 years across several campaigns. Most feedback is that it has the spirit of 2E but the flexibility of a skill system.

The first edition of Wayfarers was a bit too tight in terms of variance, and it’s a total pc killer. It also has a couple oddities that were simplified in the second print.

One of my favorite mechanics is proficiency checks. They are graded I to IV, and You roll 1d20 for each grade you have and keep the highest roll. Non-proficient checks roll 2d20 and keep the lowest. Keeping the 1-20 range reduces target number creep and bonus bloat.

I’ll send you PDFs. If anyone else wants them, let me know.

All that said, this is my magnum opus:

http://www.yeoldegamingcompanye.com/pdfs/TCRPGOE.pdf

http://www.yeoldegamingcompanye.com/pdfs/UCRAP.pdf

Devac  ·  1497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I’ll send you PDFs. If anyone else wants them, let me know.

Count me in.

kingmudsy  ·  1497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A USEFUL TREATISE ON POLEARMS killed me. Sent that to my DM, shared a hearty laugh - thanks mk :)

mike  ·  1496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Unicorns are kind of lame.

mk  ·  1497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Glad you enjoyed. I definitely wasn’t writing for a broad audience. :)

ooli  ·  1498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When I woke up at 5am to prepare my shool work in middle shool, I usually ended up writing a rpg . It was mostly a medieval plagiarism of Bushido a rpg I was loving, but never managed to find players for it.

I'm pretty impress, because I'm sure I read about Wayfarers before

c_hawkthorne  ·  1496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Speaking of gaming, I've taken up Zork thanks to the 404 page on hubski...

mike  ·  1496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I own what I think is the only "in the wild" copy of Wayfarers 1.0... mk was irritated that I bought it just before loads of new artwork was put in.

mk  ·  1496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I forgot about that. Very valuable.