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This just launched on Kickstarter yesterday. Paul has been working on this for a while, gradually evolving his preferred rules for running horror games for friends and at conventions over the years from Call of Cthulu to a modified cut-down version of Savage Worlds with his own bespoke Insanity...

Daniel's got a new vid and I think it's a great intro and answer to a lot of folks' questions about how to make traps interesting and fun, especially (not not exclusively) at low levels when PCs have few HP and dying to a random concealed pit is anticlimactic and too easy.

Gary would have been 84 today. Besides reading/posting on here, are you doing anything else to celebrate? I believe my 5E group will be playing Rime of the Frostmaiden tonight, and if so I'll call for a toast.

In the last year or so, Dan "Delta" Collins has done a bunch of analysis on his somewhat math-heavy OD&D blog, about the old OD&D/AD&D rule that Fighters get to make one attack per level against regular men/orcs. In OD&D it was against man-sized / 1HD or less monsters. In AD&D they scaled that...

Forking this tangent over from the Full and Glorious History NuTSR thread for possible further discussion, and to share the series of blog articles about the history and evolution of the OSR movement and the term OSR, from last year. There are five of them, the first coming out almost a year...

I've just run my first pick-up session of Old School Essentials (basically just 1981 B/X, but better organized) online, and this got me thinking about house rules and how to express them succinctly and clearly. This is my first whack at a brief set of them. What do you think? Do you have any...