Saturday Night Gaming Freebies

A few gaming goodies today, including "the Ghord" which supplies today's illustration and highlighted freebie "Oubliette #6" plus some other cool items from great sites.

More stuff either tonight or tomorrow (likely tomorrow).










@DriveThruRPG: Oubliette Issue 6.

Free for a limited time. "47 jam-packed pages! Written for Labyrinth Lord, but also ideal for use with any Basic/Expert/Advanced original or clone, with little or no adjustment required."

@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Spells] "Arcane Attractor," "Alter Allegiance," and "Tied to the Grave."
@And the Sky Full of Dust: "Secret Crypts of Titch" Mini-Adventure [via A Character for Every Game]
@And the Sky Full of Dust: [rules] "Plague!"
@DriveThruRPG: GROMM: Western Wastes, Faction Book
@A Field Guide to Doomsday: [Monster] "Craniac" - Mutant Future.
@The Land of NOD: "Mu-Pan Eastern Encounter IX"
@Netherwerks: "Geomorphs: Set Zero (Bonus)"
@RPG Creatures: [Monster] "Ghord"
@Sea of Stars: [Magic Item] "Mage Killer Rod"

Android Free App Review.
DnD Dice Free: Rating B. This is a useful little app for those times when you don't want to carry a bunch of dice or wish to roll up characters quietly. It has all the standard dice sizes represented (4, 6, 8, 10, 12, & 20 sided dice) and will roll other sizes, but they are displayed as six sided dice. It sounds reasonably like dice rolling on a wood table, the results seem random, and it saves time by adding the total at the bottom.

The only weaknesses are no background choices, it probably should have a few odd dice sizes (30 and 100 sided come to mind), and the total shouldn't come up until the last die is displayed. Overall, it's a pretty nice program, but one that will likely be used only rarely.

QuasarDragon Presents "Dragon Lady" By Evelyn E. Smith

"Dragon Lady" By Evelyn E. Smith, from Beyond #10 (1955)

"BACK in the Eleventh Century, I was the only daughter of a rich and powerful king in the North, as well as being the most beautiful woman in the known world, though I say it as shouldn't. Naturally a combination of such talents as my looks and my dowry would make princes come from far and near to seek my hand in marriage."

Continue HERE.

Classic SF and New Fantasy

A couple of classic SF short stories from golden age greats and a very recent fantasy story. I'm even more fond of Project Gutenberg since getting a cheap ebook reader that reads the epub with images option there.


At Project Gutenberg, "Sense of Obligation" by Harry Harrison (originally published in Analog, 1961).

"It took a very special type of man for the job—and the job was onerous, dangerous, and the only really probable reward was disaster. But when a man who says he knows it's going to kill him asks you to join.... "

Available for your favorite ebook reader or computer HERE.





At Mars & la Science Fiction, "Lost Treasure of Mars" by Edmond Hamilton (Aug 1940).

"Garth Crane faced death because of one treasure cache. Was it a good idea to gamble his life on the chance of finding a greater one?"


Available via Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars HERE.






At Tor.com, "The Go-Slow" by Nnedi Okorafor. This story was "first published in the mixed original-and-reprint anthology The Way of the Wizard (Prime, 2010), edited by John Joseph Adams."

"It was Nigerian style gridlock. The worst kind of traffic. It was a carnival of vehicles from cars to supersize trucks, nose to ass for miles, oozing, spewing, dribbling exhaust into the weighted heat under the hot penetrating African sun."

Online HERE.