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I recently bought another one of your adventures, Oasis of Koessa, and while a good adventure, it's not even the least bit 1e or OSR compatible. As near as I can puzzle out, the only thing the same as old school D&D is that you use the same basic scale of Hit Dice. But then, hit points are...

Very nice! I've been using 0One's stock maps for a few projects and well, they leave a lot to be desired And if I may suggest, stock spaceship maps would be most welcome. There are a number of OGL sci-fi games and the upcoming Starfinder, but very little support for that genre when it comes to...

I don't think I have ever voted for fewer products

They also went up on DTRPG, though the Bundle of Holding is much cheaper

I think at this point though, LotFP stuff and related supplements have stopped being "indie" Indeed, I think it's very sad that the true indie star of the OSR, Kevin Crawford and Sine Nomine wasn't nominated for anything.

Guess that want that extra 5% royalty rate for being exclusive. And given how lopsided sales are from OBS compared to other sites, more than likely worth it.

I don't think there is any reason 2d6 wouldn't work. I mean, Traveller, both classic and Mongoose does that. And Sine Nomine's games basically graft the D&D style system with Travellers 2d6 skill system. OTOH, I also don't see any particular advantage to doing that versus just rolling a d20...

I think it's probably hard to do licensed properties as POD and digital sales. You have to do extra accounting to make sure the license owners are paid exactly, rather than having it written out ahead of time and it's probably not worth the effort

Personally, I think OSR does imply old school D&D (or close compatibility to it) and anything else is just hijacking the term to make a quick buck or attention. And the more that is done of the latter, the less the term means.

That's actually the thing about most screen science fiction. The energy weapons depicted are vastly inferior to firearms, at least as anti-personnel weapons. Even old firearms, like a level action rifle or a Tommygun. They are great at blowing up doors and consoles and throwing sparks...

The Cadfael series of historical novels (which got turned into a PBS show) were set amidst this war. From those novels, you get the impression that the war was rather pointless, needless, and incompetently run. For instance, early in the war, Stephen simply let Matilda go and join her...

I was into Tae Kwon Do, so mostly I am used to kicking people. But a lot of the strikes we did do with our hands were (theoretically) aimed at specific points (like the throat or solar plexis) and I'm not sure brass knuckles would be helpful. The other thing is martial artists toughen their...

Very nice. Kind of strange that this is at the DM's Guild, because you can't publish actual old school modules there, only 5e, you have to use a retro clone (like OSRIC or Labyrinth Lord) Also stranger is them saying "OSRIC is a game system built using the 3rd edition d20 OGL to recreate the...

Fineous Fingers for me, it was like a comedy D&D campaign, almost. You saw that later in Nodwick, too (and that would be my 2nd choice). What's New was like the same joke every month. We're going to talk about sex, oh wait, we won't. On the occasions it was something else it was funny. I...

Neat. But just an observation, it was extremely uncommon for women not to have bobbed hair in the 1920s. Look at any dozen of them, maybe 1 doesn't have it. That hairstyle seems more out of the 1940s, as does the dress. 1920s fashions tended to have shorter skirts (though they got longer as the...

They aren't terrible products, but my problem is they are basically fan fiction purporting to be the real deal, when they are completely not. It's not Greyhawk, it's some random fan's idea of what Greyhawk might be like. His retro-clone isn't what EGG would have done (demonstrably so in some...

In particular the stuff by Jacob Blackmon. I've got a bunch of them because they are a) cheap ($1.95 normally) b) very good quality and c) often on sale for half price. However, rather than every other stock art I've bought, they don't come as image files, they come as PDFs. So you have to copy...

Yeah, that gun bit was beyond stupid. And just really fake looking. I don't expect him to become an expert with a revolver, but they could have make it less silly looking, or maybe gotten a body double who can handle weapons proficiently. But really, my problem with this is that the first book...

After almost 20 years of trance music (including DJing it, thus my username) I've gotten burned out on it. But I'm really loving New Retro Wave. It's becoming more and more professional sounding (and looking) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF8paxAqIRE

There's also Classified, which is a clone of the old James Bond RPG I have to think that part of the trouble is that spying is hard, mentally challenging and takes a good deal roleplaying ability - not only are you playing a character, you're now playing a character playing another character...