Knave partly leaves it up to the GM, so it's nice to have some more concrete advice here. There's good guidelines for deciding how many slots a non-armour item takes.For 'armour as damage reduction' (Into the Odd) or 'armour as ablative HP' (The Black Hack 1e) you might need to tweak this ratio. This is probably a bit much for 'armour reduces to-hit' systems, I'd make it take 1 slot per +2 bonus to Armour Class. Armour takes up 1 slot per bonus it gives.It borrows Troika's (and Torchbearer, I think?) mechanic of having to roll whenever you want to retrieve items.Penalty to rolls obviously has different effects depending on what players roll for - it's worse in The Black Hack or WoDu than for, say, a B/X magic-user. You *can* carry more stuff than your item slots, with escalating penalties to all rolls.Note that unlike Knave, where the minimum score is 11, B/X or any 3d6-in-order system can produce characters who are very limited in carry capacity. World of Dungeons) I'd say slots = 10 + Str mod. It's impossible to write a concise system that can effortlessly plug into *every* OSR game, but this gives enough ideas that a playgroup can decide how to interpret or tweak various things. Copy-pastes to a text editor without any text flow errors, so screen readers should be fine with it. Easy to read, but a bit wasteful to print.

3 (landscape-oriented) pages, 650 words, simple two-column layout double line spaced. But hopefully this review/comment gives you an idea of whether $2 is worth the inspiration and labour saved.įirst, some notes about format. Could someone write it themself for free? Sure, especially since the text of Troika and Knave are freely available.

Games with slot based inventory