Showing posts with label finch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finch. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh Yeah!


As I mentioned previously, The Crypts & Things monster section is quite evocative, but is not comprehensive when it comes to ordinary creatures and the like. A terrific resource for such things is the Swords & Wizardry Monster Book by Matthew Finch. It includes hundreds of monsters - both fantastic and mundane- some may not be a good fit for Zarth, but I could see using many of them in a C&T/S&S game. What it does have that I really appreciate are listings for things like wild animals (both giant and normal) as well as mounts (horses).The stats jibe nicely with C&T monsters (just remove the Save stat) and the book is available on Lulu in pdf or print on demand. 

I highly recommend taking a look.



Tuesday, October 11, 2016

An Exercise for the Reader

This is reaching back a bit into the OSR's past, but I highly recommend the following short read for potential Crypt Keepers. It's written by Matt Finch (Swords &Wizardry's creator) and is a handy way to wrap your head around how to approach games like C&T.

A Quick Primer to Old School Gaming