Barbarians of Lemuria: Sword & Sorcery Role-playing Game, Legendary Edition

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Still, depending on the kind of game you are after, that might not matter. Careers don't have much direct effect on combat, if I recall. Maybe JoT works in BoL? I don't know the game well enough.

Phu’ghaq’ug, called The Singer from Beyond, is a demon capable of living in – manipulating the arcane energies of – Nogoloth. Its normal appearance when summoned is of an attractive human man – typically in exceptionally fine clothing – with an effete affect. What marks Phu’ghaq’ug as otherworldly is the extra length of its otherwise human-like head, which accommodates the creature’s two additional mouths. Each mouth speaks with the same voice in a different register (bass, baritone, and tenor). The mouths typically speak in unison, though it is possible for them to communicate independently. Phu’ghaq’ug prefers not to do this, however, because it is deeply in love with the sound of its own voices

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I thought you wouldn't care for how magic, arcane power, is treated, but you didn't find much wrong with it. It's a very role-play focused way of doing it. I have a friend that doesn't normally like spell research rules that liked this sort of in session spell creation. So, perhaps an option for referees that have players that want that in a game, but the ref doesn't usually like that sort of thing. Instead of skills, the game has 'careers'. Characters will start with a number of ranks in four different careers. Careers can be things like 'thief', 'mercenary', 'alchemist', etc. The basic rule is you have a target number of 9 on 2d6. There are a couple modifiers (some boons act like advantage, roll 3d6 and keep the highest 2) but that is the main mechanic of the game. In the Mythic Edition, at the start of combat each player rolls 2d6 + Mind + Initiative - the highest Initiative among the NPCs. My thanks to Simon Washbourne for creating this modern rules light design classic. If there was any one thing I’d say is for version 2 (if there is one) go crazy on the art budget and get some classic Jeff Easley style cover and internal art.

Greyl wood - precious, rare and prized by the nobility of Satarla. The catch? Greyl grows only in a coastal forest near the Festrel Swamp, haunted by nocturnal horrors. Naturally the player (or GM) applies modifiers for the character’s abilities, their opponent’s defenses, and miscellaneous circumstances. A player applying a career to a given situation should sound like this: " I was a fisherman; so I would know how to tie a really good knot for this..." Wherein your humble scribe presents a monster and an artifact (in Barbarians of Lemuria format) that he whipped up for his nascent Lovecraftian Fantasy setting, Nogoloth, as he continues to dither on which system to use for such things. You might note that this makes two BoL-based Nogoloth entries in a row. Make of that what you will. The Bronze Kettle Of Mithathu is a damnable relic of an ancient time. Some two feet in diameter and perpetually cold to the touch, the metal that comprises its form is stamped and carven with obscure runes which are a variant on the Star Tongue of the Elds – hard to decipher but clearly full of dire warnings and other such language designed to dissuade casual use of the item.Rolls to hit use the generic Task Resolution mechanic: 2d6 plus Agility 2 and either Melee or Ranged, subtracting the target’s Defense. Flee? From the greatest challenge a man could hope to face? Where else are we to fight a Boorm Cat? There are no more in the wilds. The damnable Vanth have seen to that.”

Travel-stained and weary the heroes arrive before the gates of the bustling city. However the usual routine of the metropolis has been shattered by the arrival of a floating castle, hovering like a storm cloud over the palace. At night, "winged demons" swoop down from caves located on the underside of the castle and snatch unwary nobles away for ransom. The rules don’t care whether a one-handed melee weapon is an axe, mace, gladius, or cutlass. Observations Earlier editions expressed weapon damage as d6 +/- some constant, which means smaller weapons might do 0 damage and larger weapons might always do a minimum damage.The rules for magic fit the genre: instead of a fixed spell list, sorcerers define the effects of their spell. BoL has enough structure for new players to grasp it immediately, and simple mechanics that allow GMs to improvise in novel situations. Careers are cheaper... new level, minimum cost 1, to max of career level 5. A new career costs 1, remember? Say that Volgar decides that between adventures he wants to find mercenary work. He looks up the Mercenary table and it looks something like this: You sing well… for having only one voice,” the demon mused. “But the rite is not complete until you reach the highest note, fleshling.”

My patient, Abigail Plume, suffers from an advanced case of Jakarta Plague,” Doctor Shaw replied. “Her father, the newspaper baron Arthur Prescott Plume, has funded this expedition because my research has uncovered evidence that there is a variety of Neomarica gracilis that grows only here on Boruna Kal that contains a compound that I might be able to use to save Miss…”I played the earlier version of BoL once, and I enjoyed it. I liked being able to play an actual hero, so it suits my gaming style. In other places of the world one might expect that such a structure would attract the attention of curious children or, perhaps, the interest of a criminal element that might seek to take advantage of such a blighted place, to engage in their unlawful activities out of the watchful eye of the constabulary. But in Pnikigystros, one finds nothing of the sort. My own efforts to recruit urchins or footpads to investigate the church further on my behalf – a system which has proven useful in other areas of Nogoloth, as you’ll recall – have fallen upon willfully deaf ears. Once word reached the broader communities of these sources of inexpensive explorers I found that I was unable even to complete a friendly exchange with such citizens. The youngest daughter of a minor noble family in Liria, Meloria has dedicated herself as a priestess of Estiel, the Lirian goddess of the moon. Where it only served to aggravate her entirely unpleasant sisters, her natural charm has made her a favorite of the temple’s elders, whom she now sees as her real family. Out of combat, tests add one of the four Attributes and a career that’s relevant to the action being performed: Thief for sneaky stuff, Merchant for haggling or appraising goods, and so forth. Attribute raises cost current level + new level... Same for combat abilities. Note that 3 is maximum starting, but 5's are reasonably attainable, for both, without supernatural explanations.