The print-on-demand book version of my Bold Against Monsters (BAM) is now available on DriveThruRPG. I found that it isn’t easy to charge for the printed version but make the PDF free (pay what you want). As a result, I no longer offer the PDF for free on DriveThruRPG.
SO I AM POSTING IT HERE!
For the foreseeable future, everything that I post for sale on DriveThruRPG, I will also post for free here.

I am providing these free here as a thank you to my loyal followers on this blog.

Download your free PDF files below. These are the exact same files that I am selling on DriveThruRPG, and are a major update to the rules I previously posted on this blog. They are all 8.5″ x 11″. The Rule book is full color, and the others are all black and white.

BAM Rules [80 page PDF 6,870 KB]
BAM Character Sheet [1 page form-fillable PDF 1,015KB] You can select Ancestry, Class, Weapons, Equipment, and more from drop-down lists and many calculstions are done for you.
BAM Class Reference Sheets [6 page PDF 112KB] Intend to be used along with the Character Sheet.
BAM Weapons [4 page PDF 159KB] A list of every weapon type with information regarding their special features – useful when players are selecting their weapons.
BAM Weapon Cards [22 page PDF 2,479KB] You can print these 2 sided and cut them out for cards, one for each weapon type. Perfect for each player to have a card for each of their character’s weapons, with that weapon’s properties and special features to use during game play. There is also space on the card to calculate the weapon’s bonuses to hit and damage. On the back is a drawing of the weapon along with its name and cost.

Bold against Monsters (or BAM) is a 5E compatible rules-light fantasy Role Playing Game (RPG). Everything needed to play or run a game is in this book. It is compatible with any published 5E adventure for characters up to level 10. It can serve as an introduction to 5E role playing for new players or anyone looking for a game with familiar characters you can easily create and quickly play. Character creation, level advancement, weapons, inventory tracking, proficiencies, spellcasting, combat, and more have been simplified.

BAM includes:
➛ Information on how BAM compares to D&D and how to convert 5E Adventures to BAM.
➛ Five ancestries (called “Race” in 5E, “Species” in 5.5): Beastkin (a bipedal humanoid with some beast features), Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Human, and Half-Orc.
➛ Eighteen backgrounds: Acolyte, Chirurgeon, Cult Initiate, Farmer / Rancher, Herbalist, Jeweler, Mercenary, Minstrel, Noble, Ranger, Sailor, Scholar, Scout, Sheriff or Watchman, Soldier, Thief, Urchin,and Wizard’s Apprentice.
➛ Six classes: Barbarian, Cleric, Fighter, Paladin, Rogue, and Wizard. All the class features gained through all levels are presented on a single page. There are no subclasses and no multiclassing.
Character Levels. Characters only advance to level 10.
Gaining Feats: Every character gets a feat at level 1, 4, and 8. Humans get one additional feat at level 1.
➛ Twenty-five Feats: Ability Enhancement, Alert, Arcanist, Archer, Armor Expert, Armor Training, Athlete, Brawler, Careful Observer, Charger, Combat Caster, Elemental Savant, Fighting Styles, Medic, Polyglot, Quick, Savage Attacker, Scout, Shield Mastery, Spell Duelist, Strength of Mind, Tough, Trap Specialist, Vanguard, Weapon Expert, and Weapon training.
➛ Gear Slots: Each item you carry fills a number of gear slots that represents its approximate weight and/or its carrying difficulty. The number of filled gear slots you can carry is equal to 10 + twice your STR modifier (minimum of 10 slots total).
➛ Weapon Types: Weapons fall into 3 broad categories; Melee, Thrown, and Ranged.
Each of those are further divided into Light, Medium, or Heavy.
➛ Weapon special features: Most of the weapons have a feature that is unique to that weapon. For example, for the Javalin; “On a critical hit: Rather than doing damage, you can choose to pin a humanoid target to an adjacent wall or surface. Its speed becomes 0 until the start of your next turn, unless the target, or another creature, uses its action to release the target.”
➛ Deities: Clerics and Paladins are required to specify which deity they worship. The BAM pantheon is provided should you choose to use it.
➛ Combat: On your turn you can move up to your speed and perform one action, Or you can move twice if you don’t perform any action.
➛ Spellcasting: There are no Spell Slots. You can cast any spell you know. To cast a spell, you must roll a spellcheck. If it succeeds the spell takes effect, otherwise it fails. A natural 20 is a critical success, you double one of the spell’s numerical effects. A natural 1 is a critical failure, the spell is removed from your list of know spells. There are no Spell Components, no Spellbooks, no Casting at Higher Levels, and no Rituals.
➛ Monsters: BAM includes a few monsters based on ones from Tales of the Valiant. You must get your other monster stats from other sources. Any monster that you would pit against a party of 5E PCs will provide an encounter of similar difficulty using BAM against a party with the same number of PCs at the same level.

If you would like to purchase BAM rules as a soft cover book, or to support me by paying for the PDFs, go to DriveThruRPG.