The back cover of the first edition of the Labyrinth Lord retro-clone contains this passage: Back to the Basics of Fantasy Role Playing. Enter a world filled with labyrinths, magic, and monsters! You can take the role of a cleric, dwarf, elf, fighter, halfling, magic-user, or thief on your quest for glory, treasure, and adventure! This is a complete role playing game. All you need are a few sheets of paper and some dice. Welcome back to the simpler old-school gaming experience. The Labyrinth Lord awaits your arrival. Can you survive the dangers of the labyrinth? With that glorious introduction in mind, I have begun working on a fantasy hexcrawl experiment, using the generic "Known Lands" map contained at the end of the Labyrinth Lord game book. The idea is to use the published material as a starting point and move on from there. A quick look at the map shows that there is a perfectly placed frontier community named "Larm." Not much i...
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