Recent content by Simon Miles

We agree on that. Deffo. But if the aim is to make it more efficient but it's not a product... What's the end result?

Wow! So, could you have written it yourself? Yes. And you have explained yourself quite clearly, I understand the benefits that AI is giving you, so how does that play out for you? Get your questions so well-tailored that you need to intervene less and less? When does it stop being YOUR...

This bothers me a lot - "Written with ChatGPT" ? There are a LOT of games designers out there creating games without AI help and making them available free or for a charge within the OSR community. I do realise that people who are not able writers can still have cool ideas and ChatGPT is a tool...

More info here: The Fabulous City of Dunromin - The Ultimate Fantasy City play setting for Fantasy Role Playing

I put the logos of the two main OSR versions that I work with, plus our company logo, obv.

That's a pity, I like that one. But this is going to be the problem with whatever logo we prefer - if it's not licensed then silly and/or malign people will use it to their own ends. In fact, even if it's licensed people will ignore any copyrights unless the owner is prepared to litigate. I...

not a review but another world with lots of ideas at incredibly good value... The Fabulous City of Dunromin - The Ultimate Fantasy City play setting for Fantasy Role Playing

I wrote a Blog Post about this a while ago. Our fave is OSRIC because it's stripped down but not soulless. The changes they have made are sensible (some were changes we had already made ourselves) and it improves on the original by having an index that works. Blog - What is OSR? - 01 Sep, 2024 -...

Surely the DM needs to know the setting but the players have to discover it? Although I suppose the characters would know something of their setting. Something for session zero I suppose..

The majority here seem to be fans of the Tropes and I would tend to agree. There is always space for something different though. I think a good setting needs to have some loose ends, some gaps where something odd could manifest itself.

Yes. I didn't get into the whole alignment thing but you are quite correct, the d&d format has alignment to the core. I have tried doing without it but I have found it leads to poor characterisation and inconsistent characters. Instead I have slightly reinterpreted the definitions, good =...

This is an ongoing development for me. I started with the classic boxed text and then the description underneath in a single paragraph, like the old TSR stuff. I even remember when the boxed text was a new idea! But this is clunky, it delays play. The text gets ignored and the details are lost...

Seen this... Www.dunrominuniversitypress.co.uk

Reading these replies there seems to be a conflation of Cosmology and Mythology. The fundamental idea seems to be a spherical, Earth-like planet (ish) orbiting a sun. That's fine and most of those answering that it doesn't impact their game seem to assume that it's all a normal Big Bang style...