Whitebox Fantasy Medieval Adventure Game

In one of my itinerant late night ramblings about the web I came across Charlie Mason’s revision of Swords & Wizardry’s Whitebox.  If you ever get to know me, you’ll find out that I LOVE Swords & Wizardry whether it be WB, Core, or Complete.  But I was like, hey wait, we already have a Whitebox. So what’s the deal?  

Seems Charlie was hoping for years that there might be a revision to the rules, a better more streamlined layout.  And more art.  Gosh, we loves more art!  But the years went by and alas, no such creature was ever created.  As the game was a gift from Matt Finch to us fans, Charlie decided to do a revision himself and Whitebox: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game, or FMAG for those who just love giving everything an acronym, was born.

According to his own blog, Charlie states what sets his revision apart from the original game.

I added some various OSR stuff to change it up a bit. I included the much needed "essential adventuring rules" by Douglas Maxwell. Jousting by John Stater. Overland transportation rates from Delving Deeper. The Thief and some monsters from James Spahn.

Not bad.  Not bad at all.  He’s not reinventing the wheel but I like what he’s done. You can actually get the rules in PDF for free and I’ve already browsed the it. There’s actually some content that I will be adding to my own campaign, so I feel like Charlie has done a good job by the original and “to the fans” for providing a seamless revision of Whitebox.

Also, the game is offered in softcover format.  But that’s not all!  There are two variant covers to pick from, Red and Blue.  The Red cover is art from Eric Logfren, the Blue is from Stefan Poag.  Both are available from Amazon!  This link is for Poag’s cover.

I’ve been debating which softcover version to get, but when I cash in my ‘nickles and pennies’ coffee can, I know I’ll probably wind up buying both.