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Some reflections and thoughts on Black Blade Publishing, after 16 years: Black Blade Publishing and the OSR Community Allan.
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The big news is that for this issue White Dwarf expands to add an extra four pages, although there is a price increase to a whopping 75p...
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So giant mega dungeons need a large amount of variety and factions. While ancient may tower of the mad elder god wizards is certainly a...
May 25, 2025
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Basic Fantasy - Anybody here regularly play it? Why yes, why not?
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I mean BFRPG is fine as far as I know. It's a BECMI or B/X clone from the first wave of OSR retro-clones like Labyrinth Lord, Swords &...
May 25, 2025
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Well, finding these reprinted snippets by Gary Gygax from A&E has been extremely fun to read through. I think it also sheds a good bit...
May 23, 2025
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My own impression is that as the OSR recedes into memory (or ages into senility - whichever descriptor one prefers) it becomes harder to...
May 22, 2025
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I'll disagree with you slightly there. Retroclones were born from the OSR, but it didn't come into being for them. It was originally...
May 22, 2025
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I agree. Which is one reason that I'd prefer not to try to exclude or gatekeep other old school games from the OSR, though that...
May 22, 2025
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Is he? He's grumpy as hell, for sure, but I haven't seen him try to gatekeep. I don't chase down everything he writes (I own Beyond the...
May 22, 2025
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That has been my experience as well. My suspicion is that Yochai, like myself and many others in the Post-OSR, doesn't like a small...
May 22, 2025
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To your point, Gary Gygax himself wrote in The Strategic Review, that even in the longest running games in either Blackmoor or Greyhawk...
May 21, 2025
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I don't disagree, I think the possibility of this kind of play and some mechanics to support it exist within OD&D, but they are...
May 21, 2025
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The problem with this is it really only worked if you were playing the game for really long or really frequent periods. I've mentioned...
May 21, 2025
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My own reading is that both Lake Geneva and the West Coast D&D scene missed part of the point of OD&D, because I do suspect that it was...
May 20, 2025
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I listened to the Ben and Jon interview last night, and it seems like it really only touches on any of this tangentially, insofar as Ben...
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