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That's probably it, but more recently there was Liberation of the Demon Slayer

X2 (Castle Amber) has a number of these. A magical dinner. One course will raise your hit points, one will raise one ability 1-2 points and lower another 1-2 (randomly), one will make you either need no food or twice as much food, or give you a +4 bonus vs point or kill you. It also had a deck...

Not to be a jerk, but as someone who puts time and effort into writing reviews, it's annoying to see a press release and then a link to a blog. I don't want the review section turn into nothing more than marketing spam. Have the guy who wrote the review come and post it (not just a link).

I don't think Flash Gordon is all that popular anymore. Nor has he really been since probably the 1950s. The movie bombed 35 years ago, the Sci-Fi TV series bombed. And while certain aspects of it are public domain (one of the Flash Gordon serials), I'm not sure how that translates into...

How familiar is he with 3.x? A lot of other systems aren't so strict when it comes to what is possible based on ability at a skill. And in the case of something like that (pretending to be a man), is it really needed? It's a staple of fantasy and adventure fiction (or it used to be). Cut your...

Treatise of Twisted Terrors is the first product from a new company, QuasarDragon Games (they've since followed it up with a Pay What You Want Module, PO-1: The Stolen Child). It's a monster book with 70 new creatures based on critters from folklore & myth. For the most part, not the usual...

Remember the old Wizardry games? One of the first and most popular CRPGs? In the West they died, but they continued to be popular in Japan, with a company licensing the name and IP and producing new games. Well, they dropped the license but kept producing the games under the name Elminage. And...

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I dunno about Swords & Wizardry, but Dragonsfoot is for old school D&D (mostly 1e, but any TSR era and its simulacrums) http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/index.php There's the OD&D boards http://odd74.proboards.com/ And the Piazza...

Magestone Dungeon is the 4th in the line of Dungeons of Dazegoneby, mini-modules for Swords & Wizardry, from Creation's Edge Games. This line started about a month and seems to be their first foray into OSR stuff. It's a short module, only 11 pages, and only 7 keyed locations/encounters which...

There were different editions for the UK, since Games Workshop published/printed them https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/foreign/basicfor.html Sounds like it could be the first two printings of Holmes for the UK - apparently released alone, without a box, and the cover looks black &...

For a couple years, I had a job writing reviews for video games, one every week. Not AAA, not even AA, but pretty much mobile quality games. It's easy to write reviews for games that you like or games that you hate (especially if you've forced yourself to play that game for 10+ hours). It's...

Tenkar's Tavern is sort of the blog equivalent of talk radio. Mostly rants about something or other. Amusing at first, then gets old (or so I thought). I would add Swords & Stitchery http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/ Lots of content, reviews, etc.

OSRIC basically is 1st edition. LL+AEC seems to be more for people who had played basic edition and then used the AD&D PHB. As I always just played AD&D, I've always found LL to be somewhat weird, even with AEC. Then again, I never needed a 20 pages document to play 1e back in the day. (I...

I'd actually say that early on, they are fairly comparable. Only as the levels get higher, do they really become vastly differently. The big difference early on is the damage and the bonus hit points For instance, the PF Ogre has 4 HD, AC17, and does 2d8+7 damage The S&W Ogre has 4 HD, AC14...

The story behind Dwimmermount could probably span a short novel (or at least a long essay), so I won't go into that. Suffice it to say, it's a megadungeon for Labyrinth Lord by James Maliszewski and polished up by Alexander Macris and Tavis Allison of Autarch, who published it. It's a...