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Old-School Armory

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Old-School Armory, the character creation quick start equipment guide. For old-school play. Compatible with both the original and basic version of the game. Broadly compatible with most OSR games.

Contains everything needed to start playing fast.

Includes over seventy gear sets for equipping new characters, with multiple methods for generating starting equipment quickly.

Introduces kits, which are equipment packages ready to go. More than twenty kits are provided.

Gear sets and kits for hirelings.

Rules for equipping higher-level characters, with magic items.

A copy of the basic equipment section.

Over fifty pages of new equipment.

New sentient sword character class and standalone race.

The Clockwork Armory, a full-length adventure for starting characters.

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Kevin M February 08, 2024 6:07 am UTC
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QQ - I think I may have got a misprint of the book, the headings at the top of the book are all cut off (sometimes half the word, other times the top quarter of it), looks like the print is off centered. The adventure in the back seems to be printed fine.

https://imgur.com/a/h4yWLdw

Is this the norm for this one or ?
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Miles H February 08, 2024 2:19 pm UTC
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No, that isn't how that's supposed to be. If you look in the PDF, you can see that there are complete words at the tops of those pages. I would consider requesting a refund or a new copy.
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Eric C M June 30, 2023 3:47 am UTC
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THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLE!
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Miles H June 30, 2023 7:49 am UTC
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Thank you!
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Brian S April 14, 2023 8:33 pm UTC
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Content is pretty nice. POD isn't the greatest - the headings across the top of pages (white on black text) are all cut off, as if the pages were shifted up about half an inch.
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Miles H April 22, 2023 10:31 pm UTC
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That's a shame. Quality can vary in printing. I imagine they would be willing to offer a refund or a replacement.
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Christopher W January 28, 2023 6:20 am UTC
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Just got my physical copy. My table is going to LOVE having this book available! Absolutely fantastic and the adventure looks like a lot of fun!
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Miles H January 28, 2023 10:56 am UTC
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Awesome!
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Rachael S March 10, 2023 1:41 pm UTC
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Is this 8½x11 or 5½x8½?
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Christopher W March 10, 2023 6:07 pm UTC
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It is in standard A5 Digest format, 5.83x8.27
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Eduardo Fernando Rainha Alves C August 24, 2022 3:25 pm UTC
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We just recibe the permission of PDFs
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Andrea Tupac M August 08, 2022 7:39 am UTC
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Hi, guys! Sorry to bother you here. I still haven't received my physical copy of the Armory. It's been shipped in June 30, more than a month has passed. Can you please check and fix? Thank you so much. By the way, the Armory is wonderful!!!
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Miles H August 11, 2022 10:54 pm UTC
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I think you should email the DriveThru people.
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Kerry H July 30, 2022 2:22 am UTC
Is this available as a PDF?
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Miles H July 30, 2022 3:17 am UTC
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It is. I've recently updated the digital files, and they're not available until DriveThruRPG approves them.

The PDF will be available again soon.
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Daniel Enoch T July 25, 2022 11:53 pm UTC
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I have noticed that on the pre-filled sheets some items have a little square with a number in the left bottom corner. Generally a single digit number. What does this mean/represent?

Also, just as another noted the Strength of 5 seems to be missing from the inventory sheet. Might I politely suggest fixing this and then uploading a copy of JUST the sheet corrected and perhaps as both a PDF and inDesign or some other manner that would allow for editing digitally?

Thx!
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Miles H July 26, 2022 3:20 pm UTC
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Those little numbers are how many of the item you receive. You can see that the Pious Pilgrim has two Iron Rations. This is to allow for using the little bubbles for tracking the number you have during play. To make this possible, the starting number had to be separate from the current number used during play.

For the other things, I'm working on updating them now.
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Ronald H July 10, 2022 7:33 pm UTC
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Any chance you could make this available in hardback?
Also 5 stars on this man well done!
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Miles H July 11, 2022 4:18 am UTC
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Maybe at some point down the line. I don't see that being in the cards right now.
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Wesley M July 09, 2022 5:41 am UTC
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In the encumbrance system it seems that the Strength score of 5 slipped through the cracks. What was the author’s intent here?
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Miles H July 10, 2022 8:50 am UTC
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I assume it should be Strength 3-5 in that first row. I'll double check and update the PDF and the Inventory Sheets when I get a few minutes.
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Ryan N June 29, 2022 2:57 am UTC
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Does it contain armor that is uncommon in RPGs, but historically accurate like brigandine and gambeson?
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Miles H June 29, 2022 5:24 am UTC
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It includes the armor from Basic as well as those added later in the BECMI rules (scale, banded, and suit).

For the sake of maintaining existing game balance, only the combat equipment which had been printed in official sources was included (with one exception: the maul).

In the basic version of the game, there isn't a whole lot to work with to represent these different armors (it's just a single number: the armor class value). And the way armor functions to start with isn't very realistic. For a gambeson, you could use leather armor. Brigandine would probably be the same armor class value as what the game refers to as scale mail. But that would be left up to the referee. It's not addressed in the book.

Since retaining compatibility with the (very non-realistic) existing game was the highest priority, it wasn't feasible to try to veer toward realism (and since there is an armor at each armor class value, adding additional armors at those same values seemed superfluous). I've seen...See more
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