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This was posted to my forums and I thought it was an important enough topic to deserve more attention:...

I read 41 of the submissions to the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon game jam[…]. In this post, I discuss my personal favorites. (Contains spoilers).

came across this on masto. the core idea here is a usage die based loyalty for companions, particularly aimed at solo gaming

They tried to be all fancy last night and use a crystal ball to map hexes with a little teleportation....

Special Deck of Cards for Hex Maping...

Had a cool idea for a mountain with hermits on it that get struck by lightning in order to cast it as a spell but I’m not sure how to build a setting around that idea.

In case anyone was interested in Worldographer and hadn’t picked it up, there’s a bundle going on now at Bundle of Holding.

“Good enough” more or less sums up S&W, and though that may sound derogatory I actually finish my readthrough feeling fairly positive and unconflicted about it. “Good enough” is more or less exactly what I want out of a retroclone.

Got a physical copy of Anomalous Subsurface Environment by Patrick Wetmore and it is such a treat. The mega dungeon has so many wacky elements but they all fit an internal logic that feels very cogent. Anyone run this guy before? What did you think?

Yochai & Brad review Holy Mountain Shaker by Luka Rejec, and answer a question from the mailbag.

The problem was not “old school” games. The problem was random, arbitrary, capricious rulings made while running an “old school” game.

Saw this posted on Mastodon. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet but it looks intriguing!

download the word file https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_Tdbi-mCSjYdn73Qw64AAgJXDqyZJFv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116188176803554642399&rtpof=true&sd=true...

Might run this with Esoteric Enterprises or White Lies...

This seems very OSR! https://youtu.be/uj0Gk35kkp0

In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR printed an adventure so scandalous that when newly printed copies reached key TSR management, they ordered the entire print run sent to dumpsters rather than to distributors. According to legend, the art featured a bound, naked woman menaced by leering monsters, and another art page that...

I have been working on this Sword & Cybernetics Game idea for awhile now....

With the success of Mork Borg and Pirate Borg here comes the massive wash of other borg games....

Grab your six gun and horse. It's time to ride off into the Wild Blue Yonder!...

Every 6 months or so this comes up on these OSR Discussion Groups....

From controversial publishers and exiled pundits to belligerent posts in facebook groups somtimes it seems to be impossible to swing a cat in the Old School scene without running into agressive and exclusionary rhetoric. As fan of all the wonderful aspects of OSR style games I am concerned with what I see as a worm in our...

Here I am arguing against the split into the various sub "camps" of current RPG culture. I used to believe in this divide, too, but now I'm convinced the differences are just talked up and don't really exist except as tags, not inherently better or worse than tags such as "solo", "rules lite", "gonzo" and all the other ways of...

One thing I’m starting to dislike running OSR adventures is the insane amount of treasure and magical items that you find. In addition, the more I read the DMG, the more I feel they were just too generous with treasure and had to come up of endless ways of spending it (training, upkeep, research, rust monsters, disenchanters,...

Basically, Napoleon invented the term and it got into the RPG scene because of our napoleonic wargaming origins.