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.
Don't be a jerk.
Everyone is welcome.
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.
Other Recommended Boards:
I made this program for Pico8 a while back. If you arent familiar, the code is embedded in the image. Just grab a pico8 player and load the image.
Contains a dice roller, simple oracle, hex crawl terrain generator. (One hex at a time for solo crawling), dungeon room generator, pc stat generator, and a Norse rune picker for story telling purposes.
very nice!!! Nice to see something like this done for Pico8 especially
Thanks so much! I got to say. I badly want to work on some new rpg tools for pico 8. Specifically a program that runs tables to talk with npcs.
Pico-8 or TIC-80 would be such a good platform for that since their so multiplatform and easy to work with.