Beginner Friendly OSR Knave 2E Dungeon Crawl Puzzle

Creating your character

When you join my Discord server I will provide you with a form-fillable PDF to use as a character sheet and a guide that I wrote for character creation. The Knave 2e System supports remarkably fast and easy character creation. It's a very simple 6 step process: At First Level: 1) Choose or roll on a table for 2 professions; each profession comes with flavor and some equipment. 2) Distribute Ability Modifier Points. You have three points total to assign to 1-3 of the six abilities. 3) Determine how many item slots you have and choose your other inventory. 4) Set your Hit Points to max (6) or roll if you prefer. 5) Determine your armor class, motivation, defining traits, and ancestry. 6) Give your character a name. There are no defined classes or ancestries (heritage, species, etc) in Knave 2e. You can flavor these however you wish. But no one has darkvision. No one, except your adversaries! You can buy a PDF of the Knave 2E Rulebook on DriveThruRPG and you can buy a hardcopy on Swordfish Islands. I highly recommend it!

Preparing for the session

You will need: 1) A Discord account. 2) A headset with a microphone and a web cam. I prefer that all players be on camera, but of course we will make exceptions if you have a strong preference otherwise. 3) A web browser. 4) You can roll physical dice at home or use the dice bot in my Discord server. I will roll using the Dice bot.

What GM Old Scratch brings to the table

We will lean into the rule of cool with rulings and not rules and have a good time with it. This game will be casual and beginner-friendly. It's a pretzels and craft beer kind of game. I do not expect you to have a detailed and well-written backstory for your character. Also, I do not expect you to use character voices though you are welcome to! I sometimes do.

Homebrew rules

I use some home brew rules with my Knave games, most of which come from Shadowdark. I will give you a complete list in my "OS Guide to Knavery" when you join my Discord server. 🔹Contested Checks: If multiple creatures are working against each other on a conflicting task, a contested check decides who succeeds. 🔹Damage Dice Damage dice “explode”. (for PCs only) 🔹Shadowdark's 1/2 Hour Real Time Torch Timer 🔹Adversary Morale checks based on CHA DC15 🔹All Shadowdark player movement/distance rules 🔹Shields can be used to completely negate one melee attack (PC's only) 🔹Shadowdark's 2d20 advantage/disadvantage and maneuver on nat 20 That maybe sounds like more than it is - this is a fast and fun game!

How GM Old Scratch creates a safe table

We will discuss Safety tools at the start of the session and I will ask each player to complete a Deck of Player Safety questionnaire before we proceed further. Doing that takes about two minutes and only requires a web browser. If anyone is uncomfortable at any time with the game content all they need to do tell me and we will stop the action, retcon the story, and proceed. No reason needs to be given but we're certainly open to hearing ALL concerns.