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I have added another Free League cloth map to the walls!

Some say normal is the setting on a washing machine. Personally I like the characters to be ordinary people in extraordinary...

I think you may miss an important point of your own question. Chesterson was talking about psychological novels - which, in his...

Spider-Man vs. Batman is an excellent comparison, and IMO characters like Spider-Man area big reason behind Marvel's early popularity. I...

Whereas I want my fiction to resemble reality unless there's an in-setting reason it doesn't.

It depends on the game and the players. My personal preference is definitely for a more grounded game, where the PCs may be "special" by...

And we’re nearly finished! Things are in the right sections now. Everything is on a shelf. Some of the novels etc may need a little...

I'm increasingly drawn to that idea. It matches much of the history. The New World explorers were bankrolled by governments. There's...

As part of my research into the system I've been looking into Lewis & Clark. They're a recent enough expedition to have good notes and...

I'm glad you made this thread, because I've been working on a OSR system that is exactly this. It's been on my mind for a while. I don't...

Columbus's original plan would probably pass muster. His first voyage was an attempt to find an alternative trade route to China as a...

Yeah, the Without Numbers games are superficially "OSR" ish, but I do think they count as very different from D&D-likes.

Worlds Without Number (very different system than D&D IMO), or The One Ring if that's too close for you. Maybe GURPS.

Which is why I looked to non-western exploration models, which tended to be more diplomatic and scholarly. Al-Masudi was a Scholar who...

@Upper_Krust how far and wide are you going with the earthen deities? I really love the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Philippine, Chinese...