Knave RPG: Steal These 6 Rules 

Saw your short and came back to rewatch - successful hooked me

heck yes! This is fantastic! I like using the Linux analogy for games like Knave. On its own, it's fairly simple and straightforward, but it gets the job done. Spend some time with it and figure out what you like or don't and then customize the heck out of it. For me, Knave is the ultimate OSR toolbox. Knave, ICRPG, and Olde Swords Reign are my favorite games to Frankenstein.

totally going to have my party find a brittle weapon in the next dungeon that breaks after 3 nat 1s. Also I'm totally going to have a temporary curse that they change character sheets during the dungeon. Great ideas! keep em coming

We've been tinkering with balancing ability scores since 1e. The problem has always been with us. And the answers have always been uneven, like in 1e, where Wis gave Clerics and Druids bonus spells each day, but Magic-Users had to roll to learn new spells based on Int. And Charisma could be useful in some situations, but really the only ones who ever had high Cha were Druids and Paladins, because they had to. The other abilities were too important. And even tho they're tied to skills now, there's still some imbalance. I like his solution. It's on the right track.

I use dynamic initiative. I kept it when I switched from 2e to 3e. There's nothing more video gamey than knowing you'll be fine because the cleric will heal you before the monsters go again. The swingy nature of it is awesome for making combats super intense. I use a super complex initiative system and still roll every round. It does slow things down for the duration but no one even notices because they are so engaged in the battle, sitting on the edge of their seating waiting for me to roll intiative.

Like most of these rules, but I didn't get them from Knave. Battle Master Maneuvers are things anyone can do, but battle masters get to do them better by applying superiority dice.

Great review! I had a great idea for what happens after a TPK. Everyone rolls up new characters, and then the adventure starts with them witnessing the TPK event from a distance. Do they loot the bodies and get their cherished gear back? What jf whatever TPK'd the party is still there? Do they fight the supposedly weakened foe? This could go a lot of ways, but it's a neat link, IMHO.

We’ve been doing degradation with Use Dice - normal weapons start with a d4, master work with a d6 - roll when you fumble or get crit and downgrade on a 1

To be honest, my martial characters usually dump wisdom. My wizards almost never dump strength, actually had one that had strength as his highest score followed by intelligence. He was a glass cannon in nearly all respects but he was really fun to play. Now my bards on the other hand, I usually hard dump strength with them. Well, that's my bit. Have fun. =^_^=

Great video! My only word of concern is that the image in the beginning is from Knave 2e, while some of the rules you picked out were changed between 1e and 2e.

Your suggestion about vices doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just not understanding what you meant. 'Greedy' is literally an abstract, contextless trait, whereas 'I usually do X when Y happens' isn't abstract at all. It's a literal description of what choices are made. How is it more abstract than greedy?

1-no 2-no 3-nice 4-yes 5-yep

For my home game I do this for dual weapons combat. It’s a more of an osr 10th lvl max 1st lvl- Two attacks- two disadvantage rolls 3rd- two attacks- one disadvantage/ one normal roll 6th- two attacks to normal rolls 9th- two attacks one has advantage/ one is normal.

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Or… just try something other than 5e.

Shame on you for supporting Ben Milton and Knave 2e. Ben lied to us Kickstarter backers and sold advanced copies of what was supposed to be a Kickstarter exclusive cover at a convention before ANY of the backers got their books. I still don't have mine as of this post. Then he treated us like we were the bad guys for complaining when the exclusive cover was renamed "premium edition." Don't support ANY content creator that lies and then disrespects their backers. Shame on you both!