Monday, August 3, 2020

Labyrinth Lured or Not?

I might have posted about this before, but one of my many unfinished projects is a Labyrinth Lord resource book that compiles all my unpublished, forgotten, lost, and neglected LL ephemera such as classes, monsters, and spells. The silly working title is "Labyrinth Lured".

In recent times I have considered shifting gears on this and making it Old School Essentials compatible. In this guise it would be a setting book, not just a collection of resources.

The jury is still out on what I will eventually do.

Here's a list of the classes I know of that are slated for this collection. Some will be stricken from the list because I've already done a version, probably in Black Pudding. I italicized the ones that are probably going to be cut from the list.

Arcane Savant
Barbarian
Botten
Drow
Dwarven War Priest
Elf Warrior
Elf Arcanist
Gnome
Hunter
Keeper
Medusa
Mentalist
Neanderthal
Neanderthal Shaman
Ranger
Sarik
Summoner
Witch

Of course making this a Labyrinth Lord resource book instead of an OSE setting book has a very strong appeal for two important reasons. First, it would be easier. And I need to practice biting off things I can chew. Second, given that OSE makes LL a bit obsolete, it would be a nice send-off to my favorite game of the OSR movement. It is entirely possible I'll never do anything specifically for Labyrinth Lord again. No shade at Dan Proctor... he did a major solid for the entire RPG world by publishing his retroclone. It's just that the benefits of OSE outweigh my already powerful nostalgia for LL. I feel a great need to give LL some love.


6 comments:

  1. I will be happy to read and use Labyrinth Lured. OSE is good for the layout but LL stays on top

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  2. Another option is to make it a stand-alone game complete with setting based on the LL ruleset. Whatever you decide I'll be buying.

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    1. Hmm. That's the MOST work! What are you trying to do to me?? lol

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