This is a great title for adding some flavour to a Labyrinth Lord campaign. I was particularly impressed with the Monster Bestiary, which pulls together an eyebrow-raising number of beasties from H.P. Lovecraft's core stories, his 'Dreamlands' work, and the extended Mythos universe, like the 'serpent people' courtesy of Robert E. Howard.

Another section that really made me sit up was the Random Eldritch Artifacts section, with 99 different weird, un-knowable gew-gaws, 99 different objects they can be, and then 99 side effects. And that was an addendum on the back of the 'proper' named Eldritch Artifact section..!

As ever, it's going to take a good GM to get this stuff to really sing in a campaign, but if you've got the wherewithal to be dealing with Labyrinth Lord in the first place, then you're probably fine on that score.

Personally, I'd love to take this, some Call of Cthulhu material and a few other bits and bobs and construct some kind of fantasy romp through the vaults of Lovecraft's bonkers 'Dreamlands' setting. Ah, one day...

It's free, so it must be good! This is a simple BRP (Runequest / Chaosium's 'Basic Role Playing' ) system, complete with BRP-Lite version of the system covered as well. Fantastic if you want to throw down a game in a setting that isn't really covered by what else you have available. It's a universal system, so fantasy / medieval times through to the gun-toting present-day is covered (and particularly well in the weapon and gear lists). There's some nice tables of injuries and other lite-crunchy fun, there's a great magic and spells section, and even a radiation exposure table. You could grab this lil' PDF and embark on a entire campaign with it if you really wanted, and that's a great thing. I do have one criticism though - through the gushing admiration for the Open-Source loveliness - and that's that for all the Cthulhu beasties visible on the cover and in the illustrations throughout the book and the general horror theme that seems to be being reached for, there's no Sanity system in this PDF, and as a big fan of Call of Cthulhu, and I think that's a shame.