Crying Blades

The Crying Blades Houserules is an OSR fantasy roleplaying game, built on the fundation of the tradition and with a few innovations and twists. It was inspired mostly by Lamentations of the Flame Princess and by Swords & Wizardry, but many other games also had a significant influence on the design, from WhiteHack to BlackHack, from Dungeon World to Fate.

What will you find in the game:
- The game introduces a few innovations, such as a random talents system for the various classes that replaces abilities, three different equipment-systems (one based on a die size, one on numbered slots, and a traditional one with weight-per-item).
- It uses regular attributes checks for actions, and Saving Throws linked to attributes, with some class-modifiers.
- Combat is faster than usual: a single d20 roll determines (using the traditional AAC) both if the character hits the monster, and if the monster hits the character. This reduces the number of rounds where both would miss.
- Sorcery and clerical blessings do not require to memorize spells but use a simple count to determine how many can be cast per day.
- The leveling up system is simple and all classes need the same amount of XP per level. Sorcerers and Clerics, though, need to pay XP to improve their power-matrix and to acquire new spells, thus their leveling-up process is slower. Multiclassing is allowed, but severely limited.

This is still a beta version: it is complete but is missing monsters, random tables, advice for the GM and so on, which will be covered in the third manual.

Preview
This is a free sample of the manual plus the character sheets, so that hopefully you can get an idea of how the game works, and decide if to buy the manuals.
Free PDF:
https://www.rpgnow.com/product/192729/Crying-Blades-free-preview-and-character-sheet

The Crying Blades OSR - volume 1, Characters and Rules
WARNING: this is still a beta product!
The Crying Blades is an OSR Houserules manual, with complete rules for character generation, four classic classes (fighter, cleric, sorcerer, rogue), rules for actions and combat, and spells for Level one.

This first manual contains: an Introduction, the Characters creation rules and the four available classes (Fighter, Cleric, Sorcerer, Rogue), the Equipment, all basic and advanced rules and rules for combat, rules for Sorcerers and Clerics and their magic.
The spells and blessings lists are limited in this manual to level one spells only (for character creation). A second manual, Sorcery & Blessings, will contain the full list of spells, with details.

PDF and POD on RpgNow:
https://www.rpgnow.com/product/186667/Crying-Blades-volume-one

Hardcover on Lulu:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/daimon-games/the-crying-blades-osr-volume-1/hardcover/product-23105748.html

The Crying Blades OSR - volume 2, Sorcery and Blessings

WARNING: this is still a beta product!

This manual contains the rules for Sorcerers and Clerics and their magic, full spells and blessings lists for the two classes, and some instructions for generating magic potions, scrolls, and various magic items.

PDF and POD on RpgNow:

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/204427/Crying-Blades-volume-two

Hardcover on Lulu:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/daimon-games/the-crying-blades-osr-volume-2/hardcover/product-23108628.html