Old School Essentials
HERETICAL! ~ Expanded + HOUSE Rules EXTENSIONS
Some new and classic house rules for OSE ~ For a more advanced, detailed, and modern play experience
Some new and classic house rules for OSE ~ For a more advanced, detailed, and modern play experience
3 New Attributes (Beauty, Luck, Fate) - Luck Points, Fate Points, and attribute damage rules
Hewn Helmets & Shattered Shields rules
Training ~ Level Advancement Enhancements
Character Backgrounds
Skill System (blend of 2E + 3E, attribute-based)
Talents (aka Feats), tailored specifically for OSE
0-Level Spells ~ Cantrips & Orisons
Expanded Armor, Equipment, and Weapons lists
Equipment Quality rules
Special Materials (for armor, weapons, equipment, etc.)
Dragon-crafted items
New Heritage ~ Drayg (dragonborn-like)
New Class ~ Sorcerer + Hex Magic
War Wands
Pulled directly from the house rules document above, this heretical! expanded equipment supplement for OSE has more adventurer's gear, armor, weapons, equipment quality rules, special materials, dragon-crafted equipment and foul, sorcerous soulwands!
Herbs + herbal remedies, edible fungi, minerals, potion ingredients, and other natural concoctions for your Old School Essentials games. Also included are detailed crafting rules for these substances ~ skill concepts that can be found in the heretical! OSE House Rules + Mechanical Extensions document above.
Over 500 new magic items and clarified magic item rules for your OSE games. These magical objects are based on the treasures found in the True Dungeon LIVE D&D Experience, found at GenCon and GameHole Con. Many of these types of magic items enhance the attributes and mechanical effects/statistics of the characters potentially making characters very powerful. These items also use many of the concepts and mechanical extensions found within the heretical! OSE House Rules document above.
GMs ~ USE WITH CAUTION
0-level divine orisons pulled directly from the house rules document above, plus an additional selection of 50 new divine cleric spells (of spell circles 1-7) to add to your OSE games. Heretical!
Heretical AF! 0-level arcane cantrips pulled directly from the house rules document above, plus 56 new and updated arcane spells (10 each of spell circles 1-4, and 8 more for spell circles 5 and 6) to add to your OSE games for a more advanced selection.
A specialized character sheet for the many heretical! expanded and extended rules found on this site. [Version 1.4 ~ November 2023]
OSE Generators ~ Online! <CLICK HERE!>
Do you like Castles & Crusades? It's an OSR-like D&D game from Troll Lord Games.
The Omote has advanced those rules with the same kind of HERETICAL STYLE as well!