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From the Wargamer article: This is why I'm curious to see how they adapt Keep on the Borderlands for the new starter set adventure. On the face of it, Keep is entirely antithetical to modern dnd aesthetics regarding humanoid creatures like Orcs. While it may have been foundational for 1981...

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I think this may be mixing up a couple different things. A PC is a "pawn" when it comes to the types of actions they take in the game. The maxim for this style of play is "the answer is not on your character sheet," and this is often literally true. Even in cases where there are means to...

Was going to say exactly this. In terms of being a system, Dolmenwood is essentially b/x with a few house rules. But clearly it is meant to be run as a long-form campaign, with PCs traversing an extremely dense map, pursuing plot threads that are spread across that map, and engaging with...

If you want to see an example of an OS campaign that is none-the-less epic in scope with deep character attachment, check out Runehammer's Old School Essentials campaign recaps. He ran a 30-40ish session campaign that started at level 1 and ended with a fight against a dragon, playing in a...

Both are some of the most fun I've had running RPGs. My hot take is that I like the original versions more than the remastered version

Necrotic Gnome adventures Lorn Song of the Bachelor The Sepulchre of Seven Mausritter - The Estate (for Mausritter obviously) Trilemma Adventures like The Sky Blind Spire The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford Dungeon Age Adventures Desert Moon of Karth (for Mothership) Tomb Robbers of the Crystal...

For much of the average Critical Role session, the only rule is 'roll a d20, try to roll high, narrate depending on how high you rolled.' It's low-key a FKR game

Also, let's keep in mind that originally, 5e was itself trying to move the game back to include "rulings over rules" style adjudication and play. Mike Mearls rather infamously turned to a couple (very problematic) OSR figures for advice on how to do this when designing the 2014 rules...

I also started in the early 90s. But before I got to 2e, I started with the 1991 "black box" basic set and the rules cyclopedia. I recently revisited the black box and it teaches you how to play the game in ways that are strikingly resonant with the OSR. It gives players a dungeon crawl and...

I think this is ignoring the extravagant creativity of the OSR in everything from non-retroclone game design to the imaginative world and setting creation to innovations in information-presentation. Per your analogy, I don't think people like video game platformers just because of nostalgia...

Well that's just it...texts like Matt Finch's Primer read the rules of early versions of the game assuming GM's won't be resorting to these kind of railroading tactics to ensure a heroic narrative, but of course many GMs did exactly that, leading to the 80s style of play. But if you read the...

What on earth is making character creation take the long? All you do is roll 3 abilities, roll HP, roll starting gear, and you are ready to get going edit: and there is no way combat takes an hour in an Into the Odd system. It’s an extremely rules-lite system. There isn’t even a to-hit roll.

I voted for Dolmenwood and Mythic Bastionland. Though, those were also my most anticipated games for 2024. Sigh...

The piece with the dragon looks like it was paint by numbers. This is going to be one ugly book :oops:

I would flip the “burning bridges” question—it’s also hasbro that seems to be generating bad will among its employees. To a certain degree, they can rely on people having passion for the game to put up with a less than ideal work environment. But over time companies acquire a reputation, and...

The idea of the "other" as monstrous, inherently without order, incapable of reason, as "savage," etc was throughly embedded in the ideologies of western imperialism including American settler colonialism. ...And Lovecraftian horror was itself extremely problematic along these lines... Anyway...

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It's really odd to use KotB as starter set given all the work they are doing to get away from KotB-style adventures (i.e. adventures where humanoid creatures are just there to be killed because reasons). Yeah, they can modify it so it's something totally different, but then what's the point...

So, in recent years WOTC has been trying to get away from the idea that humanoid creatures are by default evil antagonists. The goal it seems is to add nuance and complexity to interactions with humanoid creatures, and to avoid potentially problematic stereotypes. Hence the retraction of...