Halberts

Halberts started out as the English translation of Helmbarten, a short 2d6 based RPG, a kind of Fantasy Traveller.

Helmbarten

RPG

The key difference between Halberts and Knives is that Halberts has semi-random character creation and no advancement, like Traveller, whereas Knives has "one skill point per in-game year" advancement and more advice about running the game.

Knives

A short introduction to Halberts

Halberts PDF

Halberts HTML

Altenstein PDF

Altenstein HTML

Lake Land: a point-crawl generator

Myrkheim PDF

Myrkheim HTML

Myrkheim: an underworld point-crawl generator

Source files

Blog posts:

2025-09-28 Situations

2023-12-08 Ultraviolet Grasslands with Fantasy Traveller

2023-05-11 The logic of accumulation

2023-04-27 Myrkheim people

2023-04-16 Myrkheim

2022-02-07 Singing & Helmbarten

2023-01-22 Advice for running a long campaign

2022-01-14 Wondering about Fantasy Traveller adventure generation

2023-01-07 Halberts and Knives

2022-03-20 A mini-setting to start your Halberts campaign

2022-02-20 Pike vs. Lance

2022-02-19 Death during character creation

2022-02-11 Magic Word Magic

2022-02-10 No armour in Helmbarten!

2022-02-10 English edition of Helmbarten: Halberts

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