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I did a couple based on the journeys of Al-Musadi and Ibn Battuta and the like, and they are largely a set of terrain/weather based...

I tend to think of conquistadores in the New World as perhaps the closest to D&D style adventurers we've come to in real life. Just what...

Playing as servants of Saruman sounds really cool, honestly.

Plus you get to try to have an awesome voice when you GM as Saruman

Thank god. I've been having to tone it down all this time.

Playing AS Saruman too. 🖤

The One Ring: a Middle Earth RPG Two Rings: a romance RPG about getting married Three Rings: a circus RPG Legend of the Five Rings: a...

I dont think that it at all. The OSR community (whatever broad definition that entails) goes the opposite way: "here's a situation, lets...

Re: Questing Beast's review When you think of the mini-adventures less as an "adventure" and more "fleshed out random encounter"...

Not really. They’re very small, simple adventures, I think they’d work best quest board style. They do look very easy to use, but they...

His point isn't that they can't be made to work, just that they're extremely mediocre compared to similar one page modern OSR...

Yeah, it does a decent job. But I had to re-explain to almost all of my players, every fight, how to do the initiative in Roll 20. <sigh>

For my own answer (1:3) this only includes "immediate" prep i.e. what I do maybe a couple days prior to an hour before everyone arrives...

There's some good advice in these resources on how to limit/maximize the effectiveness of your prep time. Been over a years since I...

One reason I love modules is that while I love using maps, monsters, and NPCs im not fond of actually making them. Things like the NPC...