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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...

I like the cut of your jib! I do like these vast mega-dungeons that seethe with eldritch horror and creeping doooooom. The problem is that (in my experience) the players get fear-fatigue pretty quick. No matter how many nightmares their characters have or Fear Saves (or San Checks) they have to...

We are a (very) small non-professional publisher based in the UK. The initial draft of all our products has been done in Word using two columns of 11point, 14 for subtitles and such. Our favoured font is Footlight MT Light, but this is a personal preference as it looks a little bit more Olde...

1e - base system with Unearthed Arcana but the Barbarian and the Cavalier nerfed a bit. 2e- variable spends in Thief Skills 3e - erm, nothing really... 4e - never read it... 5e - I like the idea of unlimited Cantrips, but using the UE Cantrip lists. And that's it... I just REALLY like 1st ed...

I remember that White Dwarf magazine in the UK doid a feature on Vampires, way bakc in issue 40 or 50-something I think. It was for 1st ed D&D but had a different slant on the classic vampire, making them more in keeping with the culture that created them. For instance, rather than a stake...

A little bit of self-promotion here but Barnaynia is a fun location. It's pretty Greyhawk/Forgotten Realms at low level but as you start travelling around it gets a lot more esoteric. due to the nature of the World: The Fabulous City of Dunromin - The Ultimate Fantasy City play setting for...

Osric. Although there's plenty of other stuff if you want it...

Yes indeed, and A4 contained what is, for my money, one of the greatest pieces of art ever used in a TSR Scenario - the black and white Myconid pouring a potion. Brilliance by Ero Otus.

We went to town on the ecology of our planet of Barnaynia, creating a whole new kingdom of Creatures called Thaumovores, those that totally or partially derived their energy from the Moon (the source of all Magic). The bottom of the food webs everywhere was accompanied by Thaumofunghi, which...

Absolutely! there are so many resources out there you hardly have to write anything yourself. I've not read any of the Expeditious Retreat stuff - it looks cool but I can't afford their prices.

You could start at a lower level and do the A-series "Against the Slavers" first... I have done this, many years ago. It was a blast! The thread of the threat of the Drow slowly growing in significance as they explored... I even linked in the map of the Underdark in (D1-2) Decent into the Depths...

We've developed quite a few, optimised for Osric and OSE Advanced but 100% compatible we think with AD&D 1st ed and any other OSR. We've got the Witch, The Diabolist, the Wild Domains Barbarian, OSR (Western) Monk and the Peasant in the Player's Guide to Dunromin, we've got the Courtesan, the...

Alas, most of ours feature nasty humanoids at some point but this one, DriveThruRPG, Has Ghouls as the bad guys for the first third? Or these two are both mega-dungeons with all sorts in them: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/477802/sm10-the-pit-of-panzar?affiliate_id=295776...

Rather than handing out XP for GP we run the option of spending GP on training and getting 1gp per XP, this slows progress, but that suits us, but also makes the Guilds more important, keeps the PCs poor (and desperate) and so on. We play OSR/1st edition. We've done it for a LONG time now and...

Yes, I was being inaccurate. I would say Osric is more like Ad&d but tidied up (a lot) and OSE Advanced is, as you say, some interesting stuff from Ad&d repackaged into the B/X mechanism.

As others have said, OSE is a specific version of the classic D&D Basic/Expert ruleset (they do an AD&D version as well called OSE Advanced), OSR is a more generic term referring to ALL the products based on the classic D&D style rules systems, and there are MANY. I write stuff for Dunromin...

Oooooh yeah. Although the nature of the game world means that pretty much anything can be anywhere as the history is so fractured with so many civilisations coming and going over thousands of years. But there was a race that existed before or maybe ruling over the others, probably creating most...