Old School Revival
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Old School Revival - Classic Rules Table Top Role-playing and the OSR Hobby
Rules- The community is to tiny, we can be really rules light at this point.
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Don't be a jerk.
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Everyone is welcome.
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Try to stay kind of on topic.
New to OSR?
Here are three widely tested systems which offer free PDF rulebooks.
Basic Fantasy Created to be compatible with 3/3.5e, this is fully fleshed out OSE goodness written to be more approachable. Uses ascending armor class. Print options are sold at near cost and are very very inexpensive.
Old School Essentials Basic OSE is the most popular reproduction of the original B/X set. Uses descending armor class. With several different iterations at several different prices, this PDF is free and covers the basics. Enough to get a game going.
White Box : Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game A spiritual successor to Swords & Sorcery White Box. This is the complete OSR experience. Uses descending armor class, but contains alternate status for ascending. Like Basic Fantasy, the print version is under five bucks on amazon.
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Since we have this community running, I want to open a project which will allow us to give something back. I'm opening a few threads for content to be created for a free zine which will consolidate our discussions to be released early next year. My goal is to have a POD version available 100% at cost.
Associated Threads: Create a Monster: https://lemmy.world/post/164957 Garden of Bones: https://lemmy.world/post/345605
How to contribute? To borrow a page from osrgcontent.blogspot.com,
Roll 1d10 and create the following:
- Make a spell
- Make a monster
- Make a dungeon setpiece
- Make a wilderness setpiece
- Make a city setpiece
- Make a magic item
- Make a class, race, or race-as-class
- Make a 4-10 room dungeon
- Make a trap.
- Roll 2d10 and combine
Thanks!
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5/11/2024: The Labyrinth Lord full draft (revised/second edition) can be downloaded now!
(www.goblinoidgames.com)
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ZINEQUEST - Active Time Event!!! a d66 of Science Fantasy TTJRPG Backgrounds for Troika!
(ttrpg.network)
Active Time Event!!! is a 60ish? page zine chock full of a d66 of Science Fantasy JRPG backgrounds designed for use with Troika! by Melsonian Arts Council. It has a mixed media feel, and will tickle the fancy of any OSR loving weaboo. Our Science Fantasy Expert Nerds have spent the better part of a year yelling at each other about Time Travel shenanigans referencing the likes of Chrono Trigger, Futurama, Space Dandy, Deltron 3030, Signalis, Yugimonz, The Butterfly Effect (yes– the one with Ashton Kutcher), & Many Many More! Please back this product to validate the Nerds' myriad efforts.
The crowdfunder for a run of zines starts 2/10/24, this Saturday. The goal is a measly dang $600!
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"AFTERWORD
It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. Never hold to the letter written, nor allow some barracks room lawyer to force quotations from the rule book upon you, if it goes against the obvious intent of the game. As you hew the line with respect to conformity to major systems and uniformity of play in general, also be certain the game is mastered by you and not by your players. Within the broad parameters given in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons volumes, you are creator and final arbiter. By ordering things as they should be, the game as a whole first, your campaign next, and your participants thereafter, You will be playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as it was meant to be. May you find as much pleasure in so doing as the rest of us do!"
Dungeon Master's Guide, First Edition, p. 230
Related: this video is a reaction to an X post by Jeffro Johnson.
"These People are Accusing Gygax of Being a Lying Grifter" Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPundit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7uPip720Fo
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Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs, or, A New OSR Primer
(lithyscaphe.blogspot.com)
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Rando: Sparks for TTRPGs (random generator for NPC, situation, loot, weather, etc.)
(qualityshepherd.github.io)
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