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    OSR Modules with the best layout & presentation

    I just checked out the previews for your adventures The Warren and The Pit of Panzar. Those are nicely layed out and look to be good adventures. I can see what you mean by the boxed text - looks like you're using it for 2 purpose; as a means to highlight dialog/spoken text; as a way to provide...
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    OSR Modules with the best layout & presentation

    I haven't bought a lot of prewritten adventure modules, but I bought Necrotic Gnomes's Incadescent Grottoes and Hole in the Oak, after having the pleasure of playing through them. I'd ditto the praise already given to them as a publisher that designs a good adventure, lays it out well and...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    You and MNblockhead are giving good advice and I appreciate it. I've decided to hold off on WHFRP. Instead I'm going to go with the WH40k W&G boxset, as the group I'm lining up are more familiar with that WH verse. If they like playing it, I've explained the high cost of buying a CRB direct and...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    Yep, based on what was stated in the bullet points in the OP, if you already own the Advanced edition of the Player's tomes you already have most of what will be in the new Player's tome. Changes to 4 classes, a new B/X appendix and some rules fixes will be the difference. The new optional rules...
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    AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?

    AD&D 1e It was my 1st TTRPG experience in the early 1980s and I played it frequently for about 5 years. For a good part of that time, I played it at tables hosted by my College's wargamers club and those sessions were enjoyable. We used the 1977 PHB and being my 1st TTRPG I accepted the rules as...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    Yes well, talk about a product missing from retail. I don't doubt it's a quality product, because it quickly disappeared from store shelves here. I know of only 1 store in my county that has the WHFRP starter set and they charge about double for it. Not to mention there 500 miles away as the...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    . I wonder if they realize that's much less a bonus than it is by modern D&D conventions/standards. There's no Monster Types for monsters in the Advanced Referees Tome, nor is there in Monster Manual 1e, or the B/X Advanced Bestiary. So taking a favored enemy was literally taking a single named...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    Fun adventure and setting. I have fond memories of it. :love:
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    As Overgeek said, there's a number of additions. Races are most significant, as the Advanced Players Tome supports the combination of race+class for PC builds. The core rules are simple and coherent and much better than the AD&D1e PHB, so if those in the know are saying it's B/X, I believe it...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    Which edition of the rules contain that? I ask, because that's not stated in the Advanced Player's Tome. If you're referring to the "glory in single combat" clause under Chivalric Code, that's a pointer to the "Single Combat" feature -what you're calling Suicide Geas- that's listed under Combat...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026

    Don't we already have this if you own the Advanced edition of the Player's and Referee's tomes? Of all those bullet points, these are the only 2 I'm really inteteseted in... Although, if you own 3rd Kingdoms quality hex crawl companions, you already have a fair amount of additional content for...
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    Pulp RPGs General Thread [+]

    That's a good list. I'd add to it Pulp Cthulhu and 2 of Triple Ace's Daring Tales of... series for Savage Worlds; Daring Tales of Adventure and Daring Tales of the Space Lanes. They also publish a Daring Tales of the Sprawl, but it's more cyberpunk than pulp. I'm a big fan of using SWADE for...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    That's good feedback. I checked and those 2 publications alone in PDF format would cost me more than the core book - yikes. I'm going to hold off. The W&G starter set can be found at online retailers in my country for cheap. So, I'm probably going to push the [Buy] button on it and see if the...
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    Ken Burnside on how screwed Asmodee is

    The moment I read that Asmodee acquired FFG, I had a gut feeling it was going to end in a cluster-f%$@. It was mostly their FFG and Days of Wonder games that I own. I'm not surprised by the news they witheld the republishing of some TTRPGs and board games. I'd noticed for a while that some of...
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    I made a terrible life decision…

    "Alphabetize or die!" That was the motto stapled to the shelves of our shared vinyl record and cassette tapes, when I was in college. :LOL: I typically alphabetize, but I'm down to only 4-1/2 ft of shelf space for tabletop books. Which includes my TT miniature books, but they only occupy half...
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