Aketon, Rules for Medieval RPGs

Devlog

• 1/25/2026 - Psionic Powers and Feature Complete
  January 25, 2026 by Ward Against Evil

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  Long Live Psionic Powers Psionic Powers is out now, adding 50 new psionic spells and the new Psion class to your Aketon games . This is the last of the supplements for Aketon. The game is totally feat... Continue reading

  
• 1/14/2026 - Wild Wodistry, Blessings, Bars, and Modifiers
  January 14, 2026 by Ward Against Evil

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  Long Live Wild Wodistry Wild Wodistry is the eighth supplement for Aketon, covering 50 new wild spells and a revamped class, the Woder, a druid-analogue . This supplement is also for Wardens, so they... Continue reading

  
• 1/7/2025 - Sinister Sorceries and 2025 in Review
  January 08, 2026 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #Chainmail, #D&D, #Dnd, #Esoteric Enterprises, #OSR, #RPG, #Role-Playing, #Tabletop, #War game, #spellbook, #spells, #Wargame, #dungeon, #dungeon-crawler

  Long Live Sinister Sorceries! The seventh supplement is now released, this one covers 50 chaotic spells, allowing for evil-feeling spells to be cast by dark cultists, necromancers, and orcish sorcerer... Continue reading

  
• 1/5/2026 - Quick Fix
  January 05, 2026 by Ward Against Evil

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  Oops The previous update had the wrong files uploaded with it . That has now been fixed. Thank you all for letting me know! Thanks for Reading! until next time… Good Luck on your Adventures!... Continue reading

  
• 1/4/2026 - The Great Revision
  January 05, 2026 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #Chainmail, #D&D, #Dnd, #OSR, #RPG, #Role-Playing, #Tabletop, #War game, #Wargame, #dungeon, #dungeon-crawler, #spellbook, #spells, #Esoteric Enterprises

  The Great Revision All the Aketon supplements are getting updated to match one another and work with the release of the final three supplements . These range from minor updates to match the updates to... Continue reading

  
• 9/24/2025 - Monstrous Bestiary, Chainmail, and Housekeeping
  September 25, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Long Live the Monstrous Bestiary! The sixth supplement is now released, this one covers monster stat-blocks, relieving you of the burden of having to convert all of the monsters you’ve been running... Continue reading

  
• 8/10/2025 - Thief Update, Sanctioned Sorceries, and the End Game
  August 11, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #Chainmail, #D&D, #Dnd, #OSR, #RPG, #Role-Playing, #Tabletop, #War game, #Wargame, #dungeon, #dungeon-crawler, #spells, #spellbook

  Thief Update The Thief’s ability to get +1 to-hit if they were the first one to act in a round led to some edge cases and confusion . It also meant there was no reason for them to NOT wear full plat... Continue reading

  
• 6/24/2025 - Exorcists and Prayers Update
  June 24, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #Chainmail, #D&D, #Dnd, #OSR, #RPG, #Role-Playing, #Tabletop, #War game, #Wargame

  Exorcists, Crusaders, Troubadours, and More! It started as a renaming of just the Priest class, but it quickly spread to all of them . There should not be any remaining classes that have the same name... Continue reading

  
• 5/22/2025 - Wonderous and Cursed Artifacts, Part I
  May 23, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #Chainmail, #D&D, #RPG, #OSR, #Role-Playing, #Dnd, #War game, #Tabletop, #Wargame

  There is Community-Made Content! Rats Nest Games just released an awesome piece of Aketon compatible content for all the masses to enjoy! This seems to be the first part in a series of Artifact Zines,... Continue reading

  
• 5/11/2025 - Hot Fix
  May 11, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR

  WHOOPS I accidentally left in a playtesting line that said that Adventurers have two HP to start with. Just adjusted that. Feel free to just mark it out and write one. That is all. Don’t forget to c... Continue reading
• 5/9/2025 - The Great HP Boost
  May 09, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Aketon, #OSR, #Wargame

  HP is Too Low at Low Levels There, I said it, I concede, you were right. At level 0, all characters (except Dwarves) still only have 1 HP, so if you’d like to play a funnel you totally still can. Ho... Continue reading

  
• 3/28/2025 - Weapon Rebalance and Treasure Hoards
  March 28, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Treasure Hoards Released Another Aketon supplement is out in the open air! For free of course. It has: A system for selling high value treasure to collectors Insight on how much loot to put in a lair... Continue reading

  
• 3/21/2025 - Gamemaster Cyclopedia and Affinity
  March 21, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Gamemaster Cyclopedia Released This is the Arcane Grimoire I was talking about last update! It got a new name but it’s the same principle! It’s free and has: d66 random quest generator table Rando... Continue reading
• 3/7/2025 - The Adventurer Options Supplement!
  March 07, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Long Live Adventurer Options! As soon as the game was released a week or so ago people wanted more. They wanted more classes, more races, more everything, so here’s more! In this free supplement you... Continue reading
• 3/3/2025 - Character Scrolls and Supplements
  March 03, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Chainmail, #War game, #RPG, #OSR, #D&D, #Dnd, #Role-Playing, #Tabletop

  Updates to the Main Game Mostly its a series of minor tweaks. A few of the numbers here, a little bit of the spacing there. The biggest one is that there are only three levels of will for spells now,... Continue reading

  
• 2/27/2025 - Magic, Costs, and Fonts
  February 27, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Magic and Turn Unholy The will categories have been renamed to make more sense in the setting. The natural approving at spellcasting happens much slower, Seers gain their +1 to spell every 5th level i... Continue reading
• 2/26/2025 - A4 Scale
  February 26, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Quick Layout Update foletto_ on reddit asked if I could make an A4 version. After some slight tweaks I did! It looks slightly different, that’s because I had to cut off the headings to make it fit... Continue reading

  
• 2/26/2025 - Long Live Aketon!
  February 26, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Long Live Aketon! Aketon is a tri-fold RPG side project I put together in two days while taking a break working on Crowns 2e . Aketon is based on CHAINMAIL and OD&D, taking almost everything it has fr... Continue reading