I recently planned to run some Stonehell at a local mini-con called OerliCon. I ended up forgetting my notes (shame on me!!) and improvised an adventure based some maps by Tim Hartin. The players didn’t get far, etc. Doesn’t matter – what I wanted to show was my flyer:
German Stonehell Flyer
Open Office Source
So, what did I do?
1. I used one of the pages from the Dungeon & Dragons Coloring Book found on Monster Brains ¹ via Grognardia ² as a very light background
2. added my own picture so that people can find me if they’re interested
3. added a link to Michael Curtis’ Stonehell ;)
4. added my own name
5. and, most importantly of all, I provided some statements about old-school play, mostly gleaned from the Old School Primer by Matt Finch
The statements, translated:
+--------------------------------+------------------------------+ | High death rate probable | Easy character creation | +--------------------------------+------------------------------+ | Combat is quick and easy | No skills, no feats | | Survival depends on strategy | Challenging players | | Heroes not superheroes | Malevolent underworld | | Gameplay is unbalanced | Finding treasure is the goal | | Hire spearmen and torch | Gain levels finding gold | | bearers | | +--------------------------------+------------------------------+
Maybe that’ll help you create your own flyers? Specially considering the recent TARGA discussion rekindled by Michael Shorten. ³ ⁴ I could convert the Open Office document to a Word document, but I’m not sure whether it’d still look the same.
Feel free to suggest improvements and to make it your own. I don’t own the copyright to the image from the coloring book, so you might want to consider swapping it out. If you do, please let me know what you used. I’d love to use something without copyright risk. (Free Culture, I miss you.)
#RPG #Old School #OerliCon
