For anyone interested in exploring the make -up of SII further, I have a post on the authorship of various sections HERE.
For anyone interested in exploring the make -up of SII further, I have a post on the authorship of various sections HERE.
is now available here http://sites.fastspring.com/apriorcrs/product/thebookofeldermagic
and in print on Lulu.
So, what's this thing Boggs? Well, it started as a fairly obvious idea: convert all the spells from Dragons at Dawn and Supplement into use for OD&D and then collect them (the non redundant ones anyway) together with all the OD&D spells prepared for Champions of ZED. Create a nice little booklet for use at the table. This was something I wanted for my games. So that's what I started to do. Then I thought, "Hey, the Dave Arneson Blackmoor books have OGL spells and some of them are kinda cool, why not convert them to OD&D so they get some use in the OSR?" So I went through the Blackmoor books and started picking cherries.
Then I thought "Hmm, what about Dave's players creations - Fred Funks Freds World, Richard Sniders Powers and Perils, and Dave Megarry's Pentantastar? And there's still a bit left to mine out of Adventures in Fantasy too...." For Freds World I got permission to use a few spells; the others, being very different systems and being non OGL material could not be direct sources, but could serve as sources of inspiration in a few instances.
I ended up with a whoping lot of spells. There's some 57 pages worth.
For good measure, I also threw in some of D@D supplement I magic notes, adapted to OD&D play; the reworked and expanded section on Spell Books from Holmes to Level 12, and the Dragons at Dawn spell magic redone as an Alchemist class, matching Arneson's brief notes on the class.
It's good stuff, and directly portable into any of the Classic or OD&D retroclones. I'll be getting a lot of use out of this one, and maybe some of you will too.
P.S.
I's in standard (US) 8.5 * 11 paper size, because that seemed the most practical. I'll be converting my pdf to booklet when I print, so I left the font big enough (11 point) so as to still be legible, for those who may wish to do the same.
HE - Spaceship Combat
Author: DHBoggs / Labels: Humanspace EmpiresApply any + or – attack modifiers, such as that for magic weapons, to the Marksmanship of the attacker. Further, it is recommended that a +3(Point Blank), +2(Short), +1(Medium), 0(Long) and -3(Extreme) be applied to the attackers Marksmanship. Subtract any defensive bonus from the number of damage dice to be rolled, meaning, for example, a shot fired against a +1 shield would require 1 six sided die be removed from the number of dice thrown for damage.
Armor Class 9 | Armor Class 8-5 | Armor Class 4-2 | ||||||
Marksmanship | 1-3 | 4-6 | 1-3 | 4-6 | Marksmanship | 1-3 | 4-6 | |
1-2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | |
3-4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4-8 | 0 | 1 | |
5-6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9-12 | 2 | 3 | |
7-8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17-20 | 3 | 3 | |
9-10+ | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
About Me

- DHBoggs
- Rural American father of three. Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, craftsman, and a licensed Real Estate agent.


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