GFDP

GFDP is currently on Kickstarter, where you can back the zine for physical copies, as well as pre-order the PDF. Payments made to itch will be honored based on the Kickstarter timeline.  For more information: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfdp/gfdp GFDP  is an independent production by Rory Voie and is not affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.

GFDP is a zine about living in sea caves, escaping social confines, and slaying the shit out of monsters! Join oyster cults, smoke various cave flora, wrestle boneless sea pigs, or completely fuck off straight down to the center of the world. GFDP, made using the incredibly robust and lightweight toolkit from the brilliant Troika, includes plenty of system-neutral goodies for taking the shit kickers, grease weasels, and glue sniffers from the GFDP mud-hole to your favorite adventures or RPGs.

Unlike   Troika, GFDP uses 3 stats not just the 1 and is slightly more familiar   (to the RPG oeuvre) which should make it more playable with your   favorite modules and supplements. One of the most magical part of the   OSR is all the disparate cores, settings, adventures, bestiaries etc. -   as well as all the work of current material being made - and I wanted  to  keep it something that works well with the other great work  happening  in the scene. GFDP, mechanically, is a bridge between Troika  and the OSR  at large, adapting material for/to either should be  manageable without  much re-tooling of stat blocks or matrices.

The   zine gives you all the rules needed to run a campaign for GFDP,   spelunkers and troublemakers, in  surviving (or not) the cold, wet,   dark, dungeons. A primer on what the dungeon punk is to me and while I   will never play "adventurers" again. You're also going to have OSR   compatible rules for running campaigns in the freezing darkness, a   system neutral adventure(ish, Troika is a very different engine than   you may be used to, but you'll find under the hood its still doing all   the things you expect an old school RPG to do). You may find the   classes, equipment, RANDOM TABLES, monsters, or adventure works in your   games, and are encouraged to scrap GFDP for parts if you're not into   playing pierced, patched, scarred, angry dungeon punks.

 Something  I love and admire from  Troika (itself a hack of an 80s game called  Fighting Fantasy) is how  limber and lightweight the rules are, to make  room for some really  heavy, clunky, crunchy ideas without being  overwhelming. Troika  brilliantly chooses where to zig and where to zag  and I love what they  came up with. rolling 2d6 instead of a d20 creates a  bell curve rather  than a flat percent chance; combat is chaotic and  unpredictable,  initiative is randomized and damage is rolled on a  matrix, allowing  more nuanced spreads from weapons than just the SIZE of  the dice they  get to roll. Everything else should feel familiar to your  lightweight  OSR-likes like Black Hack or Knave.