Halberds & Helmets

I think we end up with retro-clones not because we want to inaugurate the next kick-ass RPG but because we’ve spent—or wasted—six months of our life tinkering with rules, adding house rules, doing layout for a target audience of four to five people and by now we might as well publish it...

Download Player Handbook

Download Referee Guide

Download Spellcasters

Halberds and Helmets Podcast

Character Generator

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Also note the German variant, Hellebarden & Helme. And for those of you interested in the sketches that led to all of this, there’s the Halberds and Helmets Wiki.

Hellebarden & Helme

Halberds and Helmets Wiki

The Referee Guide started out as the Swiss Referee Style Manual, a long time ago.

Swiss Referee Style Manual

Jeremy Friesen found Telecanter’s The Priest of Chaos Said… inspiring and mentioned it in his blog post, Rite of Admixture - A Ritual for the Dark Six of Eberron.

Jeremy Friesen

The Priest of Chaos Said…

Rite of Admixture - A Ritual for the Dark Six of Eberron

There’s also a mention of the Mass Combat rules in his short discussion of Daniel Collin’s “Book of War”.

Mass Combat

Daniel Collin’s “Book of War”

John Mettraux mentions the H&H layout in his discussion of Wolves of God, noting that “it has marginalia, much like Halberds and Helmets does, and that helps a lot.”

John Mettraux

his discussion of Wolves of God

2023-09-27 Surviving and succumbing to poison in-game

2023-08-09 Defending a village against raiders

2023-05-10 Magic swords

2023-03-27 House rules for Halberds & Helmets

2023-02-01 Folk D&D

2022-07-15 The Joy of Exploration

2022-07-04 Markdown instead of LaTeX

2022-04-13 Retainers and hirelings

2022-04-10 How to Perl

2020-12-18 New potions

2020-12-17 Halberds and Helmets Saving Throws

2020-12-17 Halberds and Helmets Monster List

2020-01-20 Bugbears are cat people

2020-01-08 Boneless magic

2019-11-02 Whirlwind Attacks

2019-10-13 Theatre of the mind

2019-09-19 Witch magic

2019-03-31 Treasure into the Book

2019-03-28 Mass Combat

2019-03-19 Metal Armour

2019-02-25 Movement Rate

2019-01-25 Podcasting is Review

2019-01-23 Magic Words

2019-01-01 Treasure Type Again

2018-12-28 Treasure Type

2018-06-09 New URLs

2018-01-14 Counterspells

2017-12-14 Casters

2017-09-05 Monster Manual Finished

2016-10-15 Layout

2016-08-10 Swiss Referee Style Guide Integrated into Halberds and Helmets

2016-01-29 No Clerics

2015-09-10 Combat using Two Rows Per Side

2014-11-30 SVG Charactersheet

2013-12-10 Writing Your Own RPG Rules

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