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Specifically the ones that harunmushod mentioned in his other post: r/OSR, ENworld, and the OSR and OSE discord servers. My impression of these spaces is that they vary, but generally are largely populated by users without a long-term attachment to OSR and POSR design. That is they tend to be...

This is what's odd here to me. Even last year the recommendation in the same spaces would likely have been for newer/OSR stuff: Tomb of the Serpent Kings, Lair of the Lamb (FABULOUS and FREE!), Winter's Daughter, Prison of the Hated Pretender (mine I admit), or Sleeping Place of the Feathered...

B5 (Horror on the Hill?) is okay. It has a nice enough regional set up, but the main dungeon suffers as it's a monster zoo with some unnaturally forced decisions and the strong combat focus of mid-era TSR. Honestly of the B's B4 (if you want to do the rest of the work) and B2 (If you can run a...

Don't feel too weird I was talking with several fairly well known post-OSR and OSR authors (both older era folks like me and new guard NSR types) and we all find r/osr both frustrating to read and pointless to post on. Not only is it hostile generally, but especially hostile to people making...

This is interesting data - though a small sample size I'd think. As someone who was part of the OSR scene and publishing in it from 2011 through 2019 and then Post-OSR spaces since then it seems to reflect a specific fragment or category of players in those spaces or scenes that is made up...

Personally, I think B1 was is rather mediocre at best having both run it as my first foray into refereeing back in 1982 and having read and run it more recently (2013 or so). It's stocking tables and rules lead to a scenario that is poor in everything a dungeon should be: interactivity...

King's Festival is not an adventure I like very much. A decade ago when I was reviewing the B-series, its the last one I did. I didn't think of it positively then, but I was pretty critical of most of the B-series based on my then understanding of 2010's OSR play goal. I still don't love B11...

I feel like I said a bit more than "."? I suspect the quote was an accident ... but ... While I wasn't remotely talking about whatever's next for WotC ... I suppose the point that RPGs and specifically D&D fandom has always held a wide variety of groups with distinct goals is worthwhile. A lot...

Perhaps this is a hot take ... but ... I also disagree with JB - largely because I don't think any of the early D&D games "hold up" well past about 6 or 7th level, and I find AD&D - at least the original versions of its rules that I've read a jumbled mess (an inspirational one but...) I...

The image is of Alena. In the BECMI Basic set intro adventure she is an NPC who is killed for the player's backstory.

I've met some folks working on using Large Language Models to run individual text based games. To me it seems like one of the less awful uses of the technology that might be interesting and isn't just a scam to sell magic beans to MBAs with the promise that they can fire all their annoying...

Miss understood question as "Are official 5E adventures EASY to run" rather than "EASY to succeed at." Answer was no ... and it makes me sort of sad.

It's an interesting resource - and shows the extent to which early games in Lake Geneva and the Twin Cities were very much informed by wargames. The Vance and fantasy literature influence is strong of course, but the stories that Hoyt's (and others') games from that period tell strike me as less...

Perhaps late to the party... I played a fair bit of Forgotten realms 1E back in the 90's. At least 10 or 20 sessions. The thing was it was utterly unmemorable. We played through some of the ruined city of Phelan and then Azure Bonds. I remember having a dual classed (human) Fighter Cleric of...

As others point out, AD&D generally adds AC bonuses directly to armor class... but I don't think your view of AC as "hard capped" or magic armor/AC bonuses effecting attacker rolls is wrong exactly. AD&D is a bit of a mess at the best of times, and the rules in OE (OD&D) were based around that...