Help! Looking for a old free/fan D&D/LL supplement with new classes...

VacuumJockey · September 08, 2018, 11:15:30 AM

Hey, looking for some help. This time I'm looking for a old free/fan D&D/LL supplement with new classes, based on the design-your-own-D&D-class article in an old issue of Dragon magazine. I can recall that it explicitly mentions and references the Dragon article, and has new racial classes, such as hobbit thieves, elven clerics, and human barbarians; at least 10 new classes, IIRC. It is not any of the extra classes supps available on RPGNow - I have been completely unable to find it, probably because it's old, so all the hits I get are on new class supps on RPGNow and DrivethroughRPG...

Where is the damn thing? Clue me in if you can, please!

Pat · September 08, 2018, 12:19:22 PM

Are you looking for Erin Smale's Building a Perfect Class? (PDF) It's mostly a rehash of that old Dragon article, but does have about 10 sample classes. The classes are mostly harmless, but the class construction rules are terrible because they're based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how variable XP progressions work.

VacuumJockey · September 08, 2018, 02:10:13 PM

I haven't seen that one before! That's not it, but thank you anyway.

Narmer · September 08, 2018, 08:22:18 PM

Is it this series of blog posts?
http://thoulsparadise.blogspot.com/2014/01/customized-classes-part-i.html
http://thoulsparadise.blogspot.com/2014/01/customized-classes-part-ii.html
http://thoulsparadise.blogspot.com/2014/02/customized-classes-part-iii.html

JeremyR · September 09, 2018, 03:24:32 AM

I realize I am one of those crazy race shouldn't be a class heretics (to the OSR at least), but is it really that hard coming up with a hobbit thief or elven cleric? Just use the regular one and give them some elf/hobbit stuff. It won't break B/X

S'mon · September 09, 2018, 03:35:34 AM

Quote from: JeremyR;1055537I realize I am one of those crazy race shouldn't be a class heretics (to the OSR at least)

B/X is not the entirety of the OSR. I would say that these days the B/X OSR (primarily Labyrinth Lord and ACKS) is matched by the OD&D OSR (primarily Swords & Wizardry and all its derivatives).

Although I do notice that some S&W based games like White Star include quasi race-classes like Alien Brute and Alien Mystic - those are just "can't be human" though, not "must be Race X".

VacuumJockey · September 09, 2018, 05:58:56 AM

No, none of the above!

I guess it was lost to the packet storms!

Anyway, I found the Classes Compendium, which will do the job. Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Chris

Joey2k · September 09, 2018, 09:38:20 AM

Are you talking about a supplement that contains a bunch of additional classes? Or a supplement that has rules/guidelines for building your own classes?

If the latter, there was an article in one issue of the free ezine OD&Dities that had something like that (issue 7 I think, but don't hold me to that). The first 12 issues are available on Dragonsfoot.

RPGPundit · September 11, 2018, 03:45:02 AM

I seem to recall that there was once a website that had a random generator for BECMI character or racial classes. But maybe that was in some alternate universe...

VacuumJockey · September 11, 2018, 11:15:39 AM

Joey2k, it contained 10+ classes ready to go, it was a fan-made little publication in A4, and it did make reference to Dragon #109(?) although it did not quote it.