The Littlest Brown Book
Pocket-sized Rules for Fabulous Premodern Wargaming Campaigns Playable with Paper & Pencil & Miniature Figures
ByThomas E
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This is a small-format (108x175mm) retroclone of the famous 1974 rules for fantastic medieval campaigns (playable with paper & pencils & miniature figures). It attempts to faithfully present the original rules with greater brevity & logical organization.
I originally compiled this to make running my own campaign easier. It omits a lot, and is intended as a portable, quick-reference supplement to the original material rather than a replacement.
A free PDF download is available under the same name on itch.io.
Features:
-Packs (almost) all the LBB rules into 101 pocket-sized pages.
-Organized for easy use at the table, with rules of play gathered in Part I, lists of game entities (spells, monsters, treasure) in Part II, and campaign stocking tables in Part III.
-Refactors many nested tables to require fewer die rolls while having identical (or near-identical) probabilities.
-Condenses monster information to just that needed to run combat, with a separate section covering lairs.
-Decorated with terrible/"charmingly amateurish" illustrations by the compiler (and very much non-amateur cover art by Chaoclypse).
-Emojis(?) 🧙♂️
Updated to the latest version on 10/05/2025.
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 27, 2024
- Language
- English
- Category
- Games
- Copyright
- Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
- Contributors
- Compiled by: Thomas E
Specifications
- Pages
- 101
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in / 108 x 175 mm)