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  1. Gus L

    You’ll Love The Hated Pretender As A First OSR Adventure

    Hey Rob! Thanks for the review of Prison and glad you liked it. Here's a couple answers to the questions you pose and a bit of history on the adventure. So... Prison of the Hated Pretender was first published back in August 2012. It was one of the first adventures I wrote for others back in...
  2. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    See I take a less liberal approach there, I tend to view the LBBs as a complete text - that constitutes a minimally playable game (well mostly - with adaption). I also don't enjoy Chainmail's combat system - though it might be different if "parties" were more like warbands ... but then it...
  3. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    So my edition of Chainmail has these fatigue rules on Page 11 ... for mass combat. They are not found in the man to man rules and no reference is made to them in the D&D alternate combat system or any subsequent edition. I would note that the effects are profoundly different in the chainmail...
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  5. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    Where are these OD&D fatigue rules? I'm curious?
  6. Gus L

    OSR OSR game with more dangerous magic

    I think there's some expansions by other people - or at least spell collections using the same system. Book of Gaub was I think the latest. I don't use the full system as I do like leveled spells, but it's a good one.
  7. Gus L

    OSR OSR game with more dangerous magic

    Personally I rather like the bolt on "leveless" spell system in Wonder & Wickedness. You can find it on Drive Thru, and it's quite elegant with a fairly small number of spells (all the spells found in the 1974 edition but all reskinned and broken into schools of magic), magic disasters and some...
  8. Gus L

    Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words.

    The party's plans were complicated after the ancient lighthouse they had been exploring was set aflame in the night. Exploring it some days later they discovered that the tower had apparently been burned clean, presumably by local owl worshipping cultists enraged by the party's killing the...
  9. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    I don't see these as needing to be measured in real life units of time. In RPGs one does not manage "clocks" by looking at a clock, one does so by counting some sort of turn. The acid burns for 1D6+1 rounds, the spell's duration is 6 turns etc... Even when (as in AD&D) these things are measured...
  10. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    Absolutely - it's a great post! I've dipped my own toes into the "D&D combat how it should be" pool as well. 1) It should have followed the rules of Strategos (or DUNGEON!) 2) I like ranks and files ... but hate grid combat ... sorta? Hate having to have a battlemat? I actually use this second...
  11. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    See that's where we might take slightly different paths... I think that it makes no sense to have rounds measured in actual time units at all, but I do want a high level of abstraction in my "rounds" I don't think it needs to be a minute, but I certainly don't think it should be "six seconds"...
  12. Gus L

    AD&D 1E AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    I don't disagree with the facts here - it has been my experience as well that fighting or fencing, even when one is young and has trained some is exhausting. For D&D though, I just assume a 1 minute combat round one is not pressing aggressively the whole time, I take it to represent a sort of...
  13. Gus L

    D&D General Let's list/complain about things we don't like

    Greyhawk and all the official mechanical changes stemming from it: variable weapon damage, variable HD and polearm smut.
  14. Gus L

    OSR What OSR System for Barrowmaze?

    My own experience with LotFP as a system is that much of what people like about it breaks down around 4-5th level. The to hit bonuses, the magic, the thief skills. Many of the earlier adventures are decent and that's where most of the Grimdark rests, but I wouldn't try using it for Barrowmaze...
  15. Gus L

    OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?

    I suspect that's one of the differences between our views - I see the OSR as something in the past tense. That is it was an art movement, and now we're moved on to the stage of people being inspired by it, responding to it, and even having nostalgia for it ... nostalgia for nostalgia - very...
  16. Gus L

    OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?

    So I'd suggest that games like Mutant Future, Stars Without Number, and Into the Odd were OSR. The concept that a) departing from a fantasy setting b) departing from D&D mechanics or pre-1982 (choose whichever arbitrary date one likes prior to 3.5E) are both recent attempts eliminate a large...
  17. Gus L

    OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?

    You are right to note this - I often forget to credit the forum scene, as I was much more involved in the G+ and blog scene. It is of course where the term OSR first appeared, but I also don't really think it's where the OSR expanded and grew as much? My own biases perhaps. I am curious though...
  18. Gus L

    2nd to OSR

    Use whatever. Most OSR and Post OSR systems are very simple compared to even 2nd edition. 2nd edition is quite similar to AD&D 1E once all the cruft has been piled atop it so getting away from that I might try something far simpler? Maybe a B/X clone like OSE or Labyrinth Lord, maybe B/X...
  19. Gus L

    OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?

    This is a popular argument these days - I think it's the result of a few things, none of them good. First, the OSR as a living scene or movement is done. There is no central place where OSR ideas are discussed and instead a large number of splinter communities have formed. It's like other art...
  20. Gus L

    TSR nuTSR and the Reply Brief- All Briefed Up!

    I don't know about this specific attorney, but you always want to have you fees listed because there's always a chance you can ask for them as part of the judgment. This makes it hard to know what's billed and what's actually been paid.
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