RaC & Ruin - House Rules & Goblins

PLAY THE MONSTERS

Fantasy adventurers have spent decades kicking down doors, stealing treasure and killing everything described as a monster.

RaC & Ruin – House Rules & Goblins lets you play the other side.

This is the foundational supplement for RaC & Ruin, a collection of house rules and character options for old-school fantasy roleplaying games. It combines familiar OSR principles with additional choices and revisions intended to make old-school play more flexible and accessible to modern players.

It also provides rules for playing goblins as a complete race-as-class character option.

RACE AS CLASS

In RaC & Ruin, different fantasy peoples are treated as genuinely different creatures.

A goblin is not simply a smaller human with a few adjusted statistics. Its abilities, limitations and development are defined by its nature as a goblin, with its species and class combined into a single character progression.

The result is closer to the Racial Character Classes of Palladium than the increasingly interchangeable fantasy ancestries found in many modern games.

INSIDE YOU’LL FIND

• The core house rules and options for RaC & Ruin.

• Rules intended for use with old-school fantasy games.

• Additional choices and changes for modern players.

• A playable goblin race-as-class.

• A framework for playing monsters as player characters.

• Rules and ideas that can be adopted individually or used together.

• A deliberately different approach to species, class and character identity.

The design draws inspiration from:

• The Rules Cyclopaedia.

• Old-School Essentials.

• Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

• The Feral & Foe comic strip from 2000 AD.

Use the complete rules as the basis for a monster-centred campaign, introduce goblin characters into an existing OSR game or simply take whichever house rules suit your table.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Digital OSR supplement.

• Foundational rules for the RaC & Ruin series.

• Includes a playable goblin race-as-class.

• Suitable for old-school and broadly compatible fantasy roleplaying games.

• Written by James “Grim” Desborough.

This is a supplement rather than a complete standalone game. A compatible old-school fantasy rules system is required for play.

PRODUCTION NOTE

This product contains some AI-assisted artwork.