Month / July 2025

Cover image of Boot Hill RPG module "Lost Conquistador Mine"
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Lost Conquistador Mine – for Index Card RPG

I’ve been converting quite a few ‘classic’ adventure modules for more modern systems recently (check out these Star Wars Outgunnned! adaptations), so for the CRIT online convention I thought I’d run this Boot Hill classic tournament module for Index Card RPG.

The Original Module

Let’s start by talking about the original module. There’s a frontier town, Dead Mule, and a hook to an ancient mine full of gold. There’s then 9 town encounters, 9 wilderness encounters on the lengthy and involved hexcrawl to the mine, and a short ‘dungeon’ for the mine itself. The town’s got a map to it and description of locations, which obviously are triggered in the encounters, and there’s the aforementioned enormous hexcrawl to the mine when the PCs eventually find the map to it.

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Mayhem in Miquera – a One-Shot for Daggerheart

An Introductory One-Shot for Daggerheart in the Colossus of the Drylands campaign frame

Credit for the structure of this has to go to the wonderful Teos Abadia, who on his Alphastream blog (and linked youtube channel) talks about adapting the 5-Room Dungeon as a learn-to-play one-shot – using it to highlight different parts of gameplay. This is a great way to structure your one-shots to give a showcase of the system (check out my co-host Gaz doing it expertly for The One Ring on Unconventional GMs), and with a Daggerheart session to prep, it got me thinking until I came up with this, for Daggerheart’s Colossus of the Drylands campaign frame:

The Training 5-Room Dungeon for Daggerheart

  1. Arrive at isolated settlement. Assist in evacuation / repair / healing (SKILLS)
  2. Fight heralds (EASY FUN FIGHT)
  3. Resolve to fight the colossus (RP or NEGOTIATION)
  4. Showcase additional gameplay (PREPARATIONS and RESEARCH)
  5. Fight the colossus (THRILLING FINAL BATTLE)

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First Look: Warhammer the Old World RPG

As many readers know, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) will always hold a special place in my heart; and for any American readers, it’s hard to overstate the impact it had on the UK scene in the 1990s, and the shadows it still casts over Britain, let alone Bogenhafen. For many of us over here, the slightly satirical grimdark middle European vibe was what fantasy roleplay was –  D&D was just its brasher, more gonzo cousin from across the Atlantic. 

And now, Cubicle 7 has another Warhammer RPG. Along with WFRP 4th edition and Soulbound, both still continuing product lines, and Imperium Maledictum and Wrath and Glory, we’ve now got five Warhammer RPGs in print. Do we need that many? And do we need 2 of them to be fantasy, in the same world?

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