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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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  2. Everyone is welcome.

  3. 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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I've never played any ttrpg online before and I'm wondering how to set it up. It's not the tech I dont get, it's the people. It seems the scene for online OSR play is pretty dead.

How to I join or start a solid online group?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I ran a game online for a few months, and my most successful way to recruit by far was OSR Discord servers. I think this is the one I had the best luck in: https://discord.gg/6vqF25E

There's another for Necrotic Gnome's games, OSE and Dolmenwood, that you can find here: https://discord.gg/necrotic-gnome-fan-community-589023021856063497

There's one more OSR Discord I know of, and I don't know that they have a public LFG section, but there are some games run on the server that people seem able to join. If you'd rather run one, maybe they'd be open to you running something there. I'm not familiar with this one, so you'll have to check it out yourself. https://discord.gg/B6wU8TPTEa