RPG Horizon

Horizon Digital Toolkit

The Digital Toolkit is a set of tools for character, campaign, session, and live-play management. It sits at an intersection of traditional virtual table tops and campaign managers, but is designed to provide bespoke tools for each adventure game it supports—instead of taking a more general 'any game' approach.

The Digital Toolkit is being developed initially with support for Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy. As this system exists in an entirely open-license format through the OGL. Other games and support for supplements of OSE are planned to be developed after the tool for OSE launches.

Development of the Digital Toolkit is on hold. See this article for an explanation.

News, Reviews, and Discussion

RPG Horizon aims to support a wide range of tabletop adventure games with news, reviews, and discussion. Not all the games discussed are ones with support in the digital toolkit, but instead showcase the much broader scale of the adventure gaming hobby!

If you'd like to join the discussion, or suggest content for review and showcasing, then the best place to do it is on the community discord. If you want to see video content with similar topics and themes as the website, then check out the @Horizon-RPG on Youtube.

Support RPG Horizon

If you enjoy the content on this website, and want to support the creation of more of it, then consider supporting on Patreon. The funding and support enables the website to be hosted, as well as the purchasing of equipment and development of the digital toolkit.

Top Articles

Guide To Old-School Saving Throws

Old-School Essentials

Saving throws in Old-School D&D can be difficult for modern audiences to understand because of their origins in wargames and dungeon crawling. This article helps you choose the appropriate saving throw when you think a save is needed, but are unsure which one to use.

Guide To Old-School Skills

Old-School Essentials

Underneath its layers of confusing 80s RPG writing conventions, an elegant skill system is hidden in 1981s Basic D&D. This system is made more clear in Old-School Essentials, but written out transparently in this article!

Guide To The Thief

Old-School Essentials

The Thief is usually one of the most asked about classes in all of D&D, with from controversy about its inclusion at all, to confusion about the different ways to interpret and apply thief skills. This article aims to explain the mechanics of the most debated class, and how to use them in your game.

Guide To (Not Using) Ability Checks

Old-School Essentials

Ability Checks have become the core of D&D in its later editions, and while the older editions have a system for making them, it is often best not to! This article delves into the alternatives, and serves as a guide for those coming from later editions.

Recent Articles

Announcing Horizon for OSE

Industry News

The long awaited announcement of the Horizon Digital Toolkit for Old-School Essentials. This article discusses what the Digital Toolkit is, as well as the rest of the horizon ecosystem.

OGL 1.2 Survey Response Guideline

Industry News

A comprehensive guide on how to respond to Wizards of the Coasts OGL 1.2 Survey.

Wizards of the Coast, Deception Check Failed

Industry News

Wizards of the Coast have responded to the OGL controversy with lies, deception, and gaslighting. This article breaks it down, and the current status of the Horizon toolkit project.

Announcing Horizon. Horizon is dead.

Industry news

The planned announcement of RPG Horizon takes a significant setback in the light of recent legal developments. This article explains the situation, what my hopes were, and where things will go from here.

Continual Light, Read Magic, Turn Undead

Old-School Essentials

Two spells and one spell-like game mechanic come up constantly in discussion of Basic D&D. This article aims to demistify them and explain how one can interpret them based on the original wording of the rules, examples given in older rulebooks, and modern understanding.

Guide To (Not Using) Ability Checks

Old-School Essentials

Guide To The Thief

Old-School Essentials

Guide To Old-School Skills

Old-School Essentials

YOU DIED. Would You Rather Not?

Old-School Essentials

This article suggests an alternative method for handling damage in D&D that involves players engaging with the process of taking damage and recognizing that each attack is not equal. This helps convey the idea that damage is abstract in the game, and helps mitigate ludonarrative dissonance.

Guide To Old-School Saving Throws

Old-School Essentials