What is a supported OSR game?

[Weiley31]

Old School Essentials (OSE) and Labyrinth Lord are B/X retroclones with options to throw in AD&D classes and monsters and races and such with a metric ton of adventures by numerous publishers

So OSE, Lamentation of the Flame Princess, and Labyrinth Lord can pretty much be used interchangerbly?

 

[Voadam]

So OSE, Lamentation of the Flame Princess, and Labyrinth Lord can pretty much be used interchangerbly?

Yes, LotF will have its own quirks such as magic and the earth setting and the harsh horror stuff but it is also basically a B/X core of rules, you should be able to use modules interchangeably among the three.

I have not checked how compatible the OSE and LL advanced class and monster conversions are but they have the same goal of converting AD&D specific stuff to B/X.

 

[teitan]

So OSE, Lamentation of the Flame Princess, and Labyrinth Lord can pretty much be used interchangerbly?

LOTFP has the quirk that only fighters improve in combat ability and uses D6 for thieves with their single skill, thievery. One of the best things about LOTFP is actually their supplemental material. Zak S. is a dirty word but he did a few products for them that have been pulled that are excellent for OSE, LL and not just LOTFP like Vornheim, A Red & Pleasant Land. Veins of the Earth is a great toolkit for "underdark" without being, ya know, underdark.

There is also a Carcosa supplement that is very cool but like LOTFP is not for everybody. It is more 0e.

 

[Mannahnin]

LOTFP has the quirk that only fighters improve in combat ability and uses D6 for thieves with their single skill, thievery.

It's not a single skill exactly. LotFP extracts the "skill-like" checks everyone can do and certain classes can do better (like search for secret doors, search for room traps, open doors, hear noises) and makes them x in 6 skills, as well as supplementing them with a couple more, including Thief skills. Specialists (the Thief replacement class) get extra pips to add to distribute among the various skills (and backstab) each level.

 

[rbingham2000]

So OSE, Lamentation of the Flame Princess, and Labyrinth Lord can pretty much be used interchangerbly?

I have OSE and Labyrinth Lord, but not LOTFP. Armor and armor pricing in OSE tends more toward the BECMI/RC model, while Labyrinth Lord (which I am currently playing on PbP on another site) tends toward a more AD&Dish armor scheme -- in addition to leather, chain and plate, LL has stuff like padded armor, studded leather, scale mail, banded mail and splint mail. The last two are the most expensive armor you can get on a 3d8-gold budget, by the way.

 

[Calithena]

I mean, TSR, Judges Guild, Role Aids, and many others published a huge number of OSR compatible modules, and, while there are some clunkers, there are some really brilliant top tier dungeons and settings in there too.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, TSR, Judges Guild, Role Aids, and many others published a huge number of OSR compatible modules, and, while there are some clunkers, there are some really brilliant top tier dungeons and settings in there too.

And the entire output of those companies is dwarfed by what's produced for each of these systems/compatible games annually today. (Look at what Expeditious Retreat Press alone produces for 1E!)

Honestly, the best time to be a 1E player in history is right now.

 

[Simon Miles]

And the entire output of those companies is dwarfed by what's produced for each of these systems/compatible games annually today. (Look at what Expeditious Retreat Press alone produces for 1E!)

Honestly, the best time to be a 1E player in history is right now.

Absolutely! there are so many resources out there you hardly have to write anything yourself. I've not read any of the Expeditious Retreat stuff - it looks cool but I can't afford their prices.

 

[CellarHeroes]

And the entire output of those companies is dwarfed by what's produced for each of these systems/compatible games annually today. (Look at what Expeditious Retreat Press alone produces for 1E!)

Honestly, the best time to be a 1E player in history is right now.

I was aware of Arden Vul, but mainly as something I wasn't interested in. But I wasn't aware of the vast amount of material from Expeditious Retreat Press.

I give you a very angry, yet sincere, "THANK YOU" because I will be scouring this collection and filling up my shopping cart on Saturday.

 

[Retros_x]

Have you looked at the Cursed Scrolls for Shadowdark? They have hex crawls and I remember at least one dungeon with 20+ rooms. Labyrinth of the Minotaur or what is called that came with the free rules is also bigger. There are also good 3rd party ones for Shadowdark. Or I just run adventures from some other OSR game, most of them are easy to convert. Just use SD monsters instead, divide gold treasure by 10. Saving throws must be improvised based on circumstances, but that comes easy to me.