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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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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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c/OSR Zine Thread (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TigerClawTV to c/osr

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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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[–] TigerClawTV 2 points 1 year ago

During a pbp game of BFRPG, I had an arena that was having an amateur night. The players ended up having some good fun with it. I even made an amateur championship title. That's my next seed for a campaign setting. A filled out arena with established fighters.