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Update (19 Jun 23):

As I mentioned many weeks ago, maintaining the seldom used Wordpress side of this site became too much of a bother, especially as parts of Wordpress are constantly updating and some those updates break things -- like access to this forum. I'm finally had time to remove it. The forum should stop disappearing from view now.

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by randalls
Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:57 am
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: What is your favorite Microlite20-based game?
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Re: What is your favorite Microlite20-based game?

My own kitbashed fantasy and space opera variants, respectively, of course. That's what I really love about Microlite20, it's so easy to modify that it simply begs GMs to modify it to better fit their campaign and/or their group's style of play. Next thing I knew I had a fantasy and a space opera v...
by randalls
Tue Sep 10, 2019 6:09 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
Replies: 40
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Re: Microlite2020?

Oh wow! Thank you. Did they playtest well? I haven't had a chance to playtest them yet, but they look workable enough to run with. That is, I created a few characters and had them make skill rolls, fight, etc. and nothing was obviously broke. My current campaign is reaching a pause point -- probabl...
by randalls
Tue Sep 10, 2019 1:48 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
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Re: Microlite2020?

Here is the second extremely early draft of Microlite2020. Changes from Draft 1: [MAJOR CHANGE] Sycarion's ideas for Racial backgrounds/Class Stat bonuses replace former rules, Optional Rules section added, Appendixes for Equipment, Monsters, and standard spell lists added, other minor changes.

by randalls
Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:05 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
Replies: 40
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Re: Microlite2020?

Sounds like a great update - I've always been a fan of the mass combat and whilst I appreciate the abstraction (using the scaling factor), I'm wondering if it would be possible to add any additional examples or templates pls? If complexity around body parts are going to be added, wondering if an eq...
by randalls
Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:03 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
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Re: Microlite2020?

My question is, "Do we need the four skills now that we have backgrounds?". Although it feels redundant to me, I may be missing something. They will be gone (at least in initial playtest versions, if not having them breaks things they will probably have to return in some form). I just hav...
by randalls
Fri Sep 06, 2019 2:47 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
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Re: Microlite2020?

Here is an extremely early draft of Microlite2020. Backgrounds and HP/BP added. Minor changes to combat rules to adjust for HP/BP. Minor change to Advancement rules for Backgrounds.

by randalls
Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:52 am
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
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Re: Microlite2020?

I also like using a character creation system like this that doesn't give bonuses for Race, but for class. https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/563-reimagining-racial-ability-scores I read the entire article, but it lost me with respect to Microlite, in the first paragraph: There are over 1,000 unique r...
by randalls
Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:12 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Retroclone Dragonlance Fifth Age
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Re: Retroclone Dragonlance Fifth Age

Has anyone done this before? My google-fu revealed talk of it, and I even found an 8 page summary, but that's about it. I will take any thoughts/advice from folks that played Fifth Age. I don't believe I've seen any retroclones of DL5A. Which is a shame because it is any interesting game -- actuall...
by randalls
Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:13 am
Forum: Site and Community
Topic: The Forum @ RLR Discussions Rules
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The Forum @ RLR Discussions Rules

The Forum @ Rules Light RPGs is a community for the discussion, creation and play of rules light tabletop RPGs. The rules are simple and are basically the same as for the web site as a whole: Don’t be a rude jackass, a troll, a spammer, or a bull in the china shop. No personal attacks or hate speech...
by randalls
Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:57 am
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Microlite2020?
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Microlite2020?

It's been about 10 years since the original Microlite20 was released. I'm thinking that it might be time to revise the base game a bit -- a Microlite20 2.0 (or Microlite2020 because I wanted to be cute for this post). Seth spent several years working on his new version of Microlite20. He generally r...