Rovers & Riches
A downloadable game
Compatible. Classic. Simple. Sandbox.
Rovers & Riches is a fantasy adventure game about bold adventurers with big goals who risk it all to make their mark on the world. These characters are expected to explore perilous places, conquer their challenges through scheme, skill, and serendipity, and use the resulting treasure to shape the game world to their designs. Rovers & Riches is intended to be:
Compatible with OSR content without conversion.
Classic like the famous adventure games of the 70s and 80s.
Simple with minimal rules, trusting the GM and players to refine their campaign world as they play.
Sandbox focused with an expectation that players will honor their characters’ big goals and monkey with the campaign world independently.
This game includes:
- The four classic character classes (fighter, magic-user, cleric, thief)
- New spells
- Spellcrafting rules
- Faction rules
- Tables of languages, books, wilderness features, dungeon themes, treasures, magic/cursed items, puzzles, and traps
- 26 monsters with unique spark tables
- A GM aid to allow you to run the game without flipping pages or looking up rules.
Be sure to check out my free hexcrawl for Rovers & Riches, Field Trip to Zu.
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Development log
- POD Released!Apr 10, 2022
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Your game seems cool, I downloaded it to study it, because that is what I am into, Game Design. Keep up the great work! As of, right after typing this up, am checking to see how much your donations are, to see if is approachable from my wallet. Note: I am not the type of person to make friends online, so, that is all. Hope you can relate.
I got converted to level-less magic (and class-less characters) in my fantasy rpg’ing awhile ago. But then I was craving it exactly that but dreading reading through the various OD&D and B/X clones, but remembered I had a gifted, beautifully done, LFOSR copy of Rovers & Riches, and boy does it have exactly what I want. A bit of class, some classic magic, while still being lightweight. The tables are great too, and I’m excited to try some of the puzzles and traps. And those cursed items are great too! I hope I can rope some people into playing a few sessions in this.
I was wondering if you’ll be offering the illustrated character sheet that is included in the deluxe LF OSR as a PDF? I like that the included one here on Itch has a cheatsheet on it, but I’d still love to be able to use the illustrated sheets. Thanks!
Hey, thank you for the kind words! I will check in the next few days but I believe I should be able to add the illustrated character sheet here! I'll double check the license on the LFOSR version (which I agree is awesome) and post back here in a couple days. Good luck with your game!
Added the illustrated character sheet.
Yesssss! thank you so much! Excited to play!
Love the game and can't wait to get my LFOSR copy in the mail! Great job! One thing I think I'd have to house rule though is armour and weapon restrictions, since M-U with armour and 2 sleep casts pales everything else in comparison..
Thank you for the kind words! I really think Leo at LFOSR did a great job with the premium version. Let me know how the MU rule hack works out!
Praise is well deserved! Plan is to do Tower of the Stargazer with LFOSR's the Keep Chest inside it, so R&R style fits perfectly!
I just downloaded this after submitting my own OSR June Jam. I love this for the tables alone. Nice creativity!
I bought this over at drivethru, but I came here because I wanted to say how charming this compact little game is! I've read over it a few times now, and I really would like to play it with my nieces. It has more complexity than something like Maze Rats, but enough mechanical depth to have what seems like a few months of campaign. Really digging it.
Thank you! It means a lot to hear that.
Outstanding work, thanks for putting this together. Can't wait to get this on the game table!
LF OSR print when? ;)
I really like this product, well structured and organized!
Looks pretty good. Blends two games I really enjoy. I'd grab a POD version when available.
Sweets, thanks.
I'm comparing different POD services now. Waiting for some samples to come back. Hopefully it won't take more than a month.