BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules

[Admin Pete]

Hey Vile Traveller, I am not clear on the difference between the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules and the BLUEHOLME™ Journeymanne Rules, no hurry, but what is the difference between the two?

[Vile Traveller]

Heh, working titles and a slow pace of publication are the bane of my life. The Compleat Rules were going to be the much-expanded, well, complete rules based on Holmes Basic and the Prentice Rules. 20 player character levels, lots of monsters taken from mentions in the Holmes Basic book, from JEH's other writings, from his reading (particularly the Pellucidar books by ERB), etc.

The stumbling block were the additional sub-classes - monks, paladins, assassins, druids, witches, and so forth. They were simply slowing down the project too much, and at some point I simply decided if I was going to get this thing out I would have to cut back. And so the Journeymanne Rules were born. Just the four basic classes, but with rules to combine them in any manner you might wish, be it the traditional fighting magic-user, or maybe a clerical thief, or even a fighting clerical magic-user. Together with the rules to allow you to play any species in the "Creatures" chapter (ever fancied a gelatinous cube as a PC?), this still gives players plenty of options.

I might still publish the sub-classes as time allows, probably as a series of stand-alone PDFs entitled the Maester Classes. See what I did there? Prentice - Journeymanne - Maester? 

The Compleat Rules are dead. Long live the Journeymanne Rules!