Old School Revival

Should be here in like 3 weeks? I'm excited. Anyone have any experience with this one?

Dungeon Synth is a compilation album made up of the results from a chiptune competition over on battleofthebits.com. It's mostly ambient and slow burning tunes designed for background music at a tabletop session. The perfect sound track for an OSR evening. Available for 3$

https://battleofthebits.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-synth

Basic Fantasy RPG 4th Edition has been released in print on Amazon and Lulu.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87R4QH2 Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/basicfantasy

"Jim Wampler, author of Mutant Crawl Classics, Scientific Barbarian, and more, as well as a well-known artist, has designed and made free for use a "This product is free of AI" badge. It's free to use by everyone, and is a nice-looking design. I've noticed an uptick in AI-generated art and text in the past six or so months, and I think it's a great thing for the indie and small press community to have this. Let's see what's new in the gaming front!"

Taken from the OSR News Roundup Post

Is it Old School Renaissance or Old School Revival?

I only think of it as 'Revival' because thats how I was introduced to it. I honestly don't know which is the right answer.

When I founded this community, there was no OSR board. Now this is one of four. This board will continue, but in the spirit of embracing choice, here are links to the other communities:

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/tutorials-help/ has a couple of these images along with links to youtube

It's still worth 7.17 easy, but I wonder why the price hike?

I asked about it on the official BFRPG forums. We'll see what they say

https://www.basicfantasy.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4848

Edit: This is from the BFRPG Site admin:

"Amazon has bumped all KDP print books up. And they did it exactly on the day I released the game. I did NOT plan it that way, I promise you."

Looks like the increase is related to Amazon printing policy and not with the new version of BFRPG.

Continuing with the concept of using this community to produce a free zine, I have been working on a campaign setting to add. Here is my working skeleton. Please feel free to contribute ideas and I'll continue to update it.

Garginhosit - Village of the dead

This mountain village contains a garden of bones - a town square which doubles as a cemetery. There are seances nightly where friendly spirits of the dead come and talk with the living. (This can include dead PC’s who died in Garginhosit related adventures.)

Locations

Tavern and Inn "The Old Clove" - The keeper doesn't trust the Clerics and fears the dead. A circle of garlic is placed around the door to the tavern which protects it from the spirits of the dead. The attached inn does not have the same protection. People who stay at the inn will have constant nightmares.

Garden of Bones Local Grave and town square. Rituals performed here nightly. Ghosts appear at night. Friendly. This includes dead pcs. The garden of bones is never ever empty. Someone is always there from the cleric’s guild maintaining it.

Blacksmith Madly in love with the mystic.

Mystic Does not like the Clerics guild.
Is researching new spells.

Clerics Guild Maintains the garden of bones. If the clerics die or stop maintaining the garden of bones,, the ghosts stop coming back. In their place is a constant stream of ghouls.

Adventure Hooks.

-A ghost at the garden has been recently murdered and wants you to help get revenge.

-A family’s two children have turned up missing. One of the two children shows up as a ghost in the garden and tries to give the party clues on how to find the other sibling.

-The mystic needs additional exotic plants as ingredients for a new spell.

Optional Rules for Solo Play When having a session during an IRL full moon, The ghosts have the ability to walk through the entire town and touch people.

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Since we have an OSR community up and running, I say we should get to work immediately to give back. This thread will serve as the monster creation workshop. I'll compile everything after a time and release a free zine of everything we can create as a group.

(Similar threads for adventure creation + more to follow)

I've started running DCC recently, and I am honestly having the time of my life with it. All the issues I had with 5e have vanished up in smoke.

While I do enjoy running premade adventures, I also like creating my own structured one shots that follow a more structured narrative. However, not being an artist, I primarily rely on dungeondraft and maybe even AI art to create my adventures. Is there any interest in this sort of aesthetic if I were to share my adventures? Most of the time, it feels like a big part of the OSR draw is that it keeps to its roots not only in terms of mechanics but also the way it presents itself visually?

Looking to hear some opinions. :)

I posted that I've been working on my own system (as probably a lot of OSR fans have), but this post isn't really about that so much. As I've been working, there's a nagging voice in my head that keeps asking "does the world really need another system?"

And that got me thinking, with the massive breadth of options from hardcore retroclones to modernized reinterpretations, does the world need another system? Is there a more useful or needed thing I could be spending my writing time on?

So I guess my question to the group is whether you're tired of seeing new systems. If you are, what would you rather see? Dungeon anthologies? Old school modules? Micro-settings? Something else?

Personally, I like new systems that either add something fresh, or just rearrange a bunch of existing systems into something that takes aspects of all of them (more what mine is), but I could also do to see more collections of small hexcrawls, zines full of one-page dungeons to drop into a game, or even things like Vermis I, just fun lore books or micro fictions that I can draw inspiration from.

So how about you?

I picked this up off of Amazon for 5 bucks. I was actually really pleased. Offers a good adventure hub/location, thier own iteration of an optional barbarian class for b/x and some nice maps.

Any other zines worth checking out?

This was my favorite thread on the old r/OSR. So is your favorite system/systems?

I'll start:

Basic Fantasy - BF gets overlooked a lot because the print books are sold at cost so I think it ends up being a lot of peoples introduction to OSR, but I keep coming back to it. The modules are really well written.

Old School Essentials - Just got the Rules Tome and I love it, though I haven't had the change to dig into a game with it yet.

I migrated from Reddit after the API changes, like a lot of folks. My favorite thing to do on Reddit was to discuss tabletop roleplaying outside of D&D.

I wanted to go ahead and get the ball rolling in building an OSR community here in lemmy.world.

I'm going to post something on this sub everyday from now on. See you tomorrow.