Showing posts with label Horde Wars Advanced D12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horde Wars Advanced D12. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2025

OSR Review & Commentary On Horde Wars Advanced D12 RPG By Nathan Lindy, & Todd Ritzema

 
"Horde War Advanced  is a fast paced Medieval Fantasy D12 RPG!Ă‚ Horde Wars AdvancedĂ‚ covers all levels of play and over 200 Beasts, Monsters and NPCs to battle. Character creation rules, a starting adventure, sample town, and treasure generation tables are included. There are also chapters on sailing, domain play, and the setting."

Horde Wars Advanced is a whole cloth D12 inspired system that takes the Horde Wars rpg & advances it in the old school tradition. There's a ton of inspired new systems from character generation systems, campaign generation rules, sample towns, and new treasure generation tables. What does this means? It means that you as a player or DM get a whole cloth systems that are crunchy and well thought out. 



 Horde Wars Advanced is an rpg with tons of optional adventuring options like  castle building, dungeon exploration or adventuring,  Dragons,plus  loads of classes to play. All of this centers around the D12 mechanic which is similar to the D20 rpg systems that we're all familiar with. It's an rpg that centers around old school style adventures and situations that have everything from sailing rules to full on domain style play. This is a three hundred page role playing game with tons of monsters, options, and more. The rules are handled within the first 13 pages and then your ready to go as a player or dungeon master. Everything within Horde War Advanced D12 is then an add on too bring your own campaigns to life. 
Horde War Advanced brings the D12 mechanic to life for doing your own old school rpg adventures. This isn't a joke but a fact because of the nature of the D12 mechanic the rules are very clear. And you get everything you need within this book. 
The world of Valentia are brought to life in the later sections of this rpg. This is a world brought to life in violence and blood. The world is simple and straight forward but nuanced and very deadly. 



Is Horde Wars Advanced D12 RPG By Nathan Lindy, & Todd Ritzema  worth playing? In a word, yes! There's tons of quality material within this game perfectly suited too what it sets out to do and that's offer a quality rpg that's based around the D20 mechanic and all that it brings to the table! 


Monday, March 10, 2025

OSR Review & Commentary On Horde Wars Advanced D12 By Black Wall Games For the Horde Wars Rpg

 

"Horde Wars is a fast paced Medieval Fantasy D12 RPG! Horde Wars Advanced  covers all levels of play and over 200 Beasts, Monsters and NPCs to battle. Character creation rules, a starting adventure, sample town, and treasure generation tables are included. There are also chapters on sailing, domain play, and the setting" Horde Wars Advanced D12 By Black Wall takes everything you love about the Horde Wars rpg and notches into 'eleven' in many ways all based around the D12 mechanic! Play is fast, furious, and works very well with lots of brand new monsters and lots of familiar faces. Play here is modeled upon the familiar tropes of play of the world's most popular fantasy rpg but taken with it's own twists and turns. These make play very well designed and written so that Horde War Advanced D12 stands on it's own merits around the original Horde War rpg engine.
















Horde Wars Advanced D12 By Black Wall Games takes the basic Horde War rpg & adds lots of new bells and whistle systems with character creation rules, a starting adventure, sample town, and treasure generation tables. This gets a HWA game going very quickly and highly responsibly allowing solid play in a compact set of rules that covers domain level play, sea battles, land warfare and set advanced dungeon crawling all around the D12 mechanic. This allows the game to take itself to the advanced point of play for OSR and old school gamers who are looking for an alternative rpg to the world's most popular fantasy rpg. Horde Wars Advanced works in a way that allows play to be steady, reliable, and with minimum fuss. Character creation is familiar and allows character customization while giving a completely playable character for advanced dungeon crawling. But is Horde Wars Advanced worth the price of admission?! In a word, yes! There's been a niche within the old school and OSR hobby for an alternative that allows a DM to take their Horde Wars rpg game to the advanced level of play.