https://www.brwgames.com/news/
This is a game I am rooting for.
I covered Adventures Dark & Deep, and I was lucky enough to have the hardcovers and PDFs before it was pulled due to the OGL mess. According to the last news, the games are being updated to remove the OGL, though it appears to be slow going. BRW Games does have a PDF and Drive-Thru store where several non-ADAD OSR books and adventures are sold, and they are all excellent works, researched and written in a first-edition style.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/3728/BRW-Games
Please support this publisher and show some love for this alternate first-edition game. Nobody should have to pull their dream off the market because of Wizards and the OGL.
The game is an "OSRIC plus" version of a first-edition game system, with many innovations and exciting additions. You get many base races, including dark elves, bards, jesters as character classes, and many other "what if" innovations in a first-edition set of rules. There is a system for "purchasing" skills by spending earned XP, which is just a fascinating and exciting take on the subject.
The game revels in its charts more than OSRIC, giving me a throwback feeling. This game loves its reference and complexity, and it reminds me a little of Rolemaster with all that game's charts. It is the ultimate "first edition goes overboard on everything" game style. What other game can you have a half-human/half-drow bard-assassin?
The game is a first-edition game with "too many mods," and I love it.
My books are in the garage, and I must go on an "adventure" to find them and dig them out. I have the PDFs, which I will cherish forever since this game is no longer in print or sold. Besides OSRIC, this is one of the other massive first-edition retro-clones, and I want to see it unchained from the OGL and finally free.
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