Rovers & Riches

Operant Game Lab
Compatible. Classic. Simple. Sandbox. Rovers & Riches is a fantasy adventure game about bold adventurers with big goals who risk it all to make their mark on the world. These characters are expected to explore perilous places, conquer their challenges through scheme, skill, and serendipity, and use the resulting treasure to shape the game world to their designs. Rovers & Riches is intended to be: Compatible with OSR content without conversion. Classic like the famous adventure games of the 70s and 80s. Simple with minimal rules, trusting the GM and players to refine their campaign world as they play. Sandbox focused with an expectation that players will honor their characters’ big goals and monkey with the campaign world independently. This game includes: - The four classic character classes (fighter, magic-user, cleric, thief). - New spells. - Spellcrafting rules. - Faction rules. - Tables of languages, books, wilderness features, dungeon themes, treasures, magic/cursed items, puzzles, and traps. - 26 monsters with unique spark tables. - A GM aid to allow you to run the game without flipping pages or looking up rules. POD Available at Lulu for $10
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Rovers & Riches
Compatible. Classic. Simple. Sandbox. Rovers & Riches is a fantasy adventure game about bold adventurers with big goals who risk it all to make their mark on the world. These characters are expected to explore perilous places, conquer their challenges through scheme, skill, and serendipity, and use the resulting treasure to shape the game world to their designs. Rovers & Riches is intended to be: Compatible with OSR content without conversion. Classic like the famous adventure games of the 70s and 80s. Simple with minimal rules, trusting the GM and players to refine their campaign world as they play. Sandbox focused with an expectation that players will honor their characters’ big goals and monkey with the campaign world independently. This game includes: - The four classic character classes (fighter, magic-user, cleric, thief). - New spells. - Spellcrafting rules. - Faction rules. - Tables of languages, books, wilderness features, dungeon themes, treasures, magic/cursed items, puzzles, and traps. - 26 monsters with unique spark tables. - A GM aid to allow you to run the game without flipping pages or looking up rules. POD Available at Lulu for $10

Release date - 09/13/2022

Author(s) - Operant Game Lab

Category(s) - OSR

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  • 5  Stars
    Reviewed by madlants

    A nice, barebones classic fantasy game that hearkens back to the early days of fantasy roleplaying. It’s simplicity makes it a good introduction to TTRPG’s for beginners. It’s also a great resource for the tables section, which has a very nice assortment of treasure and location tables for any GM to add some character to their loot or dungeons/wildernesses if they’re lacking inspiration. These can easily be used for any classic fantasy game you’re running, not just Rovers and Riches!
    My only gripe is that presentation is a bit lacking. The cover art is a great retro homage, but the only inside art is what looks like older AI art in. the bestiary section, which hasn’t aged well and lacks both the appeal of newer, more advanced AI art and the charm of older hand drawn images. This is minor though, considering that the book is free. Can’t expect the author to break the bank on commissioning art.

  • 5  Stars
    Reviewed by txintegrityrpg

    basically a mix of Knave and Basic DnD with the classic classes and more advancement. and it’s free

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  • 5  Stars
    Reviewed by madlants

    A nice, barebones classic fantasy game that hearkens back to the early days of fantasy roleplaying. It’s simplicity makes it a good introduction to TTRPG’s for beginners. It’s also a great resource for the tables section, which has a very nice assortment of treasure and location tables for any GM to add some character to their loot or dungeons/wildernesses if they’re lacking inspiration. These can easily be used for any classic fantasy game you’re running, not just Rovers and Riches!
    My only gripe is that presentation is a bit lacking. The cover art is a great retro homage, but the only inside art is what looks like older AI art in. the bestiary section, which hasn’t aged well and lacks both the appeal of newer, more advanced AI art and the charm of older hand drawn images. This is minor though, considering that the book is free. Can’t expect the author to break the bank on commissioning art.

  • 5  Stars
    Reviewed by txintegrityrpg

    basically a mix of Knave and Basic DnD with the classic classes and more advancement. and it’s free

    • 2 reviews for Rovers & Riches

    1. 5  Stars
      Reviewed by txintegrityrpg

      basically a mix of Knave and Basic DnD with the classic classes and more advancement. and it’s free

    2. 5  Stars
      Reviewed by madlants

      A nice, barebones classic fantasy game that hearkens back to the early days of fantasy roleplaying. It’s simplicity makes it a good introduction to TTRPG’s for beginners. It’s also a great resource for the tables section, which has a very nice assortment of treasure and location tables for any GM to add some character to their loot or dungeons/wildernesses if they’re lacking inspiration. These can easily be used for any classic fantasy game you’re running, not just Rovers and Riches!
      My only gripe is that presentation is a bit lacking. The cover art is a great retro homage, but the only inside art is what looks like older AI art in. the bestiary section, which hasn’t aged well and lacks both the appeal of newer, more advanced AI art and the charm of older hand drawn images. This is minor though, considering that the book is free. Can’t expect the author to break the bank on commissioning art.

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