An Abominable Fancy

I came back from vacation, and look what was waiting for me! John Stater's Blood & Treasure and the first ten issues of NOD , received in exchange for some doodles I did for Mr. Stater's forthcoming Tome of Monsters. I encountered Stater's work my first week of noodling into the OSR. The concept of the hexcrawl was kinda new to me (my formative D&D edition was Holmes Basic), and Stater has produced troves of hexcrawl resources. He stuck out particularly to my art-school eyes because of his visual sophistication ( NOD #7 has the best cover in the entire OSR). It's a massive stack of material, and I haven't had a chance to do more than skim, but man-o-pete, it is good. B&T is a wonderful system, drawing from across games and editions, and designed to be modified for your comfort, with lots of clever new considerations. I might graft race-as-class onto it and use it as my new system, or harvest huge bloody chunks of it for either B/X or Microli