Thursday, 13 August 2026

Alrightreads: Gamesmaster VIII

Nich Angell, Colostle: A Solo RPG Adventure

2021 / Ebook / 60 pages

***

A nice setting to dream in, but I can't be arsed to play a game in it.


Chris Gonnerman, Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game

2021 edition / Paperback / 170 pages

****

The slightly intimidating rules that go with the adventure books if we decide to graduate from our junior pony RPG system to old-school dungeon crawling, with lots of ideas for spells and creatures even if we don't.


Chris Gonnerman, Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game: Morgansfort – The Western Lands Campaign

2013 / Ebook / 74 pages

**

Paradoxically too detailed and too basic, I can't see us ever bothering with a premade campaign when we can customise one by stringing together the more appealing one-shots.


Various, Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game: Adventure Anthology 3

2023 / Paperback / 152 pages

****

More handy non-profit templates to adapt so I don't have to come up with scenarios from scratch.


Jeff Ashworth and Tim Baker, The Game Master's Book of More Random Encounters

2024 / Ebook / 272 pages

****

I've found a few fun and silly activities amid the gloom so far, like tattoo tables, food carts and a boring storyteller endurance test, so these are always handy resources for our games.