Here's The First Chapter of O.L.D.!

Elven musketeers line up in the rain to defend against an oncoming goblin horde. Weathered watchmen investigate a murder in a scummy tavern. Diabolists meddle with things that they shouldn't as they summon the most evil of beings from the depths of Hell. Pirates and swashbucklers battle for supremacy on the high seas. A heroic adventurer adds a moat to his ever-expanding castle. Download the first 12 pages of O.L.D. for free. This introduction section introduces the game, provides a short play example, a brief glossary, and a discussion of fantasy genres ranging from the gritty to high fantasy. Rather than including a setting itself, O.L.D. is very much pitched as a toolkit full of rules and guidelines which help you create your own setting or model your favourite TV, movie, or book setting. To that end, a full quarter of the book is devoted to worldbuilding. Simply click on the image below!

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[TarionzCousin]

Congratulations, Morrus. I would say this is a milestone achievement.

 

[dwayne]

I like it can not wait to have all three books in my hands.

 

[GMMichael]

Curses! I thought I was done buying RPG books...until I saw this...

Can any playtesters compare the rules depth to D&D 5e for me?

 

[JohnLynch]

Congratulations. The layout and graphics have been completed to a quality finish that would belong in any top tier company's product line. I'll be interested to see how this compares with Pathfinder and D&D and what type of stories it might enable that would differentiate it.

 

[Morrus]

Congratulations. The layout and graphics have been completed to a quality finish that would belong in any top tier company's product line. I'll be interested to see how this compares with Pathfinder and D&D and what type of stories it might enable that would differentiate it.

I'd say the biggest thing you'd notice is that it's a lot flatter in terms of advancement. D&D and Pathfinder are very much in the vein of heroic fantasy. While you do advance, of course, and you gain or improve skills and attributes, and learn new exploits, you don't have that steep rise in power level to superheroic action. You won't ever be able to brush off 20 crossbow bolts, or a 200-ft fall. I wouldn't say it's gritty, but combat is fairly tactical and you'd be thinking about cover and positioning and such.

It also lends itself to much longer stories. Character age is a factor (not in a "here's a bunch of penalties for being old!" kind of way) and time is a currency for advancement alongside XP. Adventures can be months or years apart, and players can spend that downtime advancing. In a sense, you can revisit the same character at different periods of his or her life. You don't have to, but you can.

And finally - it's super toolkity. It's designed from the start to say "build your own setting using these tools" and it's easy to hack, bash, tweak, houserule, and homebrew. A full quarter of the book is devoted to worldbuilding, with guidelines on creating monsters, careers, the whole works.

 

[CaptainGemini]

I can't wait to see the ultimate outcome of this. These books are permanently on my shopping list.

 

[JohnLynch]

I''d say the biggest thing you'd notice is that it's a lot flatter in terms of advancement...you don't have that steep rise in power level to superheroic action. You won't ever be able to brush off 20 crossbow bolts, or a 200-ft fall....

Character age is a factor....players can spend that downtime advancing.

Nice. I'll definitely be checking this out

 

[JohnLynch]

Apologies for the double post but I've read through the first chapter and I'm definitely interested in it. It looks like it will handle Dark Sun and Forgotten Realms equally well. I like the idea of flatter progression as there is less "your character has stopped advancing at this point." It seems very GURPSish (in that it's classless) with a touch of Traveller (careers/traditions that can grant you ability score boosts or skill boosts, etc) with a bit of D&D (if I understand correctly there are character levels in this game unlike GURPS). Definitely worth a look at I do like the idea of "more dice" over dice modifiers (although that is by it's nature less granular). I'll have to wait and see what the finished product looks like