If OBS printed locally like Lulu does, I'd buy from OBS. Living in Canada, shipping and possible extra fees for customs (at least 12%) sucks balls.

Quote from: Necrozius;838344If OBS printed locally like Lulu does, I'd buy from OBS. Living in Canada, shipping and possible extra fees for customs (at least 12%) sucks balls.

The book will be shortly thereafter also available on Amazon (the softcover only however, as they don't do hardcover POD). Maybe that will make things easier for you were taxes and shipping costs are concerned?

Quote from: Necrozius;838344If OBS printed locally like Lulu does, I'd buy from OBS. Living in Canada, shipping and possible extra fees for customs (at least 12%) sucks balls.

OBS shipments to Canada get printed in England, so they get treated as intra-Commonwealth packages. It's substantially cheaper than getting a book shipped from America.

Quote from: RPGPundit;838211So the book itself is largely system-neutral but aimed at the OSR.

Didn't you run your campaign with this using LotFP?

It's very pretty. Not sure of how much use it would be to me, but if I've got some disposable income I'll be keeping it in mind. Still don't really see any parallels to Warhammer, but I'm down for any well done historically-inspired game.

Quote from: Scutter;838332I'm constantly tinkering with a low magic system I've made, and I'm seriously thinking of unleashing it on Dark Albion.

The setting is looks brilliant, and is my favourite style of gaming (dark, gritty, grim etc). Could be interesting

The book has guidelines for how to keep your D&D magic level relatively low; but what were you thinking of for your thing?

Not sure what your question is asking, so I'll go ahead and presume you are asking about my system.

It operates on a 2d10 + attribute + skill (divided by 2) get equal to or greater than a 12 with possible dice roll modifiers dependent on the difficulty of the task being attempted. It has grades of success and failure (like that found in FU rpg ((Free Universal)). So from best to worst results you have Success: 'yes and...', 'yes', 'yes but...', and Failure: 'no but...', 'no', and finally 'no and...'. FU rpg: found here. This is newly implemented and we are play testing it to see if the numbers work ok.

It has 8 attributes (strength, stamina, agility*, dexterity*, intellect, perception, willpower, and charisma.

* Agility/Dexterity: I split these into two because I dislike it when games have just the one stat for movement (i.e. 'Agility' or 'Dexterity'). With the one stat it means your 'gymnast' is also a brilliant watchmaker because she has high 'Agility', or you Gnome watchmaker with her high Dexterity who is brilliant on the gymnastic parallel bars . Doesn't make sense and having feats/traits/special abilities that link with your 'Agility' or 'Dexterity' attribute, doesn't really solve the issue. No reason why a brilliant gymnast character with a high 'Agility' should also be naturally brilliant at picking locks too.

It has 8 broad skills which I believe cover 99.99% of all actions you might wish to partake of during a game (melee, ranged, thrown, covert, survival, social, lore, craft). You can specialise within those 8 broad skills too.

For example Melee: 2 handed blade, 1 handed blunt, parry, Ranged: Bow, Crossbow, Thrown: Dagger, Spear, Covert: Sneak, Shadow, Hide Survival: Track, Forage Social: Persuade, Intimidate. You can also specialise (in fact, you must) in Lore and Craft , but they're a bit more involved due to all the academic subjects out there. Specialisation lets you roll 3d10 but you discard the lowest d10 result and keep the other two.

It's also got hit locations - because I love hit locations (head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg). Each location has its own number of health points based off your character's Strength + Stamina cross referenced on a chart. In that respect it's very similar to Runequest hit locations. I've also got rules for wound infection as well.

Then I've made a list of Proficiencies which are similar to feats (but nowhere near as flashy).

Magic is not my own creation (for the most part). I wanted something low in feel, but powerful (if that makes sense). So I copied the magical effects from the 'Chronicles of the Drenai' rpg by Dariel Quiogue (found here: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/chronicles-of-the-drenai), added a few, changed others, and overall meshed them with my game. Although I basically lifted them from Chronicles of the Drenai, they are used solely for our rpg table and not for money making purposes.

EDIT: I should clarify that in my earlier post I said I've made a magic system. That's not strictly true; I've take an existing magic system and changed it to fit my low magic setting/rules (as detailed in the above paragraph).

Oh, and I also took the Pendragon personality traits rules and implemented them, because I think they are a great way to aid a player in 'role playing' their character, without being too heavy handed.

There are also no classes or levels and I've got the vaguest of rules in place for demi-human races (not that we're using them in our game).

We've had one play test session and the rules are being continually tweaked changed dropped and morphed, but they are very serviceable and that's what counts.

If you weren't asking me about my game system when you asked what I was thinking of for my 'thing', then I apologise for answering incorrectly. It was nice to talk about my homebrew though, so thanks for the opportunity regardless.

EDIT 2: That said, I'll probably end up using GURPS, Runequest 6 or Harnmaster 3ed with Dark Albion.

Quote from: TristramEvans;838380It's very pretty. Not sure of how much use it would be to me, but if I've got some disposable income I'll be keeping it in mind. Still don't really see any parallels to Warhammer, but I'm down for any well done historically-inspired game.

It's only like WH in the sense that it makes use of real-world nations and adds a touch of fantasy. But its way way less fantasy than WH does, and it's also more serious than warhammer.

Quote from: Lynn;838364Didn't you run your campaign with this using LotFP?

Do run. The campaign is still going.  But the book itself is not an LotFP book in any way, it has specifically been made to be able to be run with just about any OSR ruleset (or indeed, could fairly easily be used with other fantasy rule-sets too, since a significant part of the book is mechanics-free).