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Scarlet Heroes - A Solo Scribe's Review

Scarlet Heroes - Review T his post is going t o be a review of my experiences with the Scarlet Heroes TTRPG written by Kevin Crawford, and published by Sine Nomine Publishing. The aim of the review is to briefly overview the system and what I like and don't like about it, from the point of view specifically as a solo roleplayer. So let's begin by talking a little about the system. The System The system is a classic OSR Sword and Sorcery style game, drawing heavily on the mechanics and themes of old school D&D and similar titles that use hit dice, classes, hit rolls on 1d20 etc. The game actually incorporates the "Red Tide" setting from Labyrinth Lord so is fully compatible with existing material for that game. Monsters, spells and other mechanics from Labyrinth Lord and other OSR titles that meet the aforementioned criteria, can be implemented with little to no conversion. The philosophy of the game is designed around having a single Player Character (PC) and a si...