Today I ran a one-shot for a friend using Eberron and Microlite74. It was a weird blend of conflicting designs that didn't end up running very smoothly.

Microlite74, of course, focuses on tweaking Microlite to resemble old-school brown-box OD&D -- about as old-school as you can get. I would describe it as almost of a gritty feel. Eberron, OTOH, is inspired by movies like Indiana Jones -- several steps beyond high fantasy into a sort of pulp and dark adventure feel.

From the pen of San Kim comes Microlite20 Psionics, a 'litified rendition of the SRD Psionics rules complete with the Psion and Psychic Warrior classes, Powers, Items and Monsters!

Download it here.

UPDATE: San has revised this document further, making it even smaller (in the best Microlite tradition), added additional credits and a shiny updated layout and logo. If you've already downloaded it, grab it again for the update!

UPDATE 2: Now available in handy pocketmod format!

Download the Psionics Pocketmod
Download the Powers Pocketmod

From bal3000 comes Apocrypha containing Cleric Spell Lists from 1st to 8th level in a 6 page (141k) pdf.

Merry Christmas!

Weighing in at 22 pages covering everything from Aboleths to Colossal Zomibes with appendices of Animals, Vermin and Lycanthropes, here's the Expanded Monster List by copycat042.

Enjoy!

Tooth and claw in the streets!

"Could you be just a little more quiet, Barkhead," growled Trom, the rat. "It's not like we're begging to get noticed or anything."

Barkhead snickered, "Sure... like there's anything awake in this alley in the middle of the night. Let's just go in, grab the ham and get out. I don't even know why I'm helping you guys. I don't even eat ham."

"Because, you, you, you're our friend," squeaked the little mouse sneak Keiter. "And, and, we smelled pine nuts. Promise."

Barkhead scrambled up the wall unto the windowsill. "Ok... grab this rope and get up here," he said, concentrating for a moment. "... ... ...," he appeared to scream. "... ... ...

Get the pdf here, by copycat042.

Gonzalo has kindly provided a Spanish translation of the Microlite20 Core Rules and well as a Spanish conversion of Dirk Remmecke's Character Sheet.

Download the Spanish Core Rules here.

Download the Spanish Character Sheet here.

Paul Lessack has kindly contributed a beautifully laid-out version of Microlite20. Weighing in at 17 pages, it's a 1.4Mb pdf that's as close to my vision of a complete professional Edition of Microlite20 as I've seen to date. It includes Character Generation, Combat, Advancement, Monsters, Equipment, Spells and the full Expert rules and GM Guide too!

Download it here.

.... and that's not all. Microlite20 has had a make-over under the hood (a make-under?) too, upgrading to the latest and greatest version of Drupal along the way. What this means, along with tighter internal security, is access to Yet More addons, modules, themes and other cool stuff I'll be introducing over the next few weeks.

First on the list is the ability to customize the look and feel, not only of this site, but your individual blogspace on it. Just go to your user profile to change your blog's theme and the overall look-and-feel on the site. If there's any themes you particularly like, or any you find for Drupal that you'd like adding into the mix, just let me know in the comments below.

Don't have a blog here on Microlite20 but want one? Make a donation in support of Microlite20 (at least a dollar makes me smile), mail me (greywulf (at) gmail.com) your preferred username and password and all this and more, dear boy, will be yours.

As with everything techie, there might well be some hiccoughs following the upgrade. If you spot any bugs or problems, please let me know asap. Thanks!

In the meantime, to coin a phrase, Make Mine Microlite!

Despite the definite lack of love for Vancian magicks in the game that we love to play, it remains a part of the lore and history of D&D and the SRD/D20 system that microlite20 and microlite74 are based from.

Greywulf's original vision of using an abstraction of HP to represent "life force" and using that life force to control and project the mystical forces for spells is an excellent mechanic. I did miss the concept of Vancian magic, though, and decided to incorporate Vancian magic into my own house rules for microlite74. I think this is easily extended to microlite20 as well, as it doesn't involve anything specific beyond magic being part of the setting.