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Gail Gygax has agreed to - I dunno - read a post over at The Tavern where I will present her with questions from the community about the Gygax Memorial Fund only. I'm not looking to muddy the waters with the rest of the drama at this point. The Fund has enough questions. If you have questions...

Grimstaff, The whole Dwimmermout fiasco could have been so much worse, as Autarch had the legal responsibility for producing the product but had forwarded all the monies to James (who had none of the legal responsibilities as far as Kickstarter was concerned.) I sat down for drinks with Tavis...

Roger, The backers are not "venture capitalists", at least not in the traditional sense. In the following case the backers were treated essentially as preorders: http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/washington-attorney-general-targets-kickstarter-campaign “We’re going after him for a pretty simple...

The OSR today is less about new / cloned / houseruled rulesets and more about products that can be used with those rulesets. Until 5e offers an open license of sorts the OSR will stand apart. As there will probably never be any sort of open license for 5e...

Well, as I now have a podcast, your comment is accurate in a way not intended. Go figure ;)

OSRIC was also published under British Law (If I recall correctly) and if WotC had lost the suit, they would have been legally obliged to pay the lawyers of the publishers of OSRIC. In the States, the threat of a lawsuit is enough to make most folks drop out.

and the Spanish crowdfunding site Verkami just took the project down. http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2013/12/heroquest-25th-anniversary-project.html

I'm not sure you can pin down the sudden uptick in the OSR to any one thing in particular. However, there are a few things I think I can point to: 1 - OSRIC and Castles & Crusades were instrumental in bringing "old school gaming" to current, living systems. They showed it could be done. Others...

My fav is S&W Complete, but I love the DCC adventures and have been converting them on the fly. BFRPG is a damn good choice too.

Morrus, free to share as per Matt Finch himself edit: I'd upload it, but no idea how to do so over here

it's going strong on Reddit today - over 480 downloads in the last 8 hrs...

Matt Finch himself gave permission to share the file. It's the same file Frog God will be distributing, so you can grab in from any that are offering it.

I've also been reviewing M&M on the blogside, but I don't see it as OSR at this point of my review. It is more of a way to translate Old School adventures to New School / Story Telling mechanics. Old modules will definitely play out in a differnent way after being converted to M&M. As a tool to...

a podcast to add to my iphone :)

I'm working on a multipart review of Monsters & Magic. It is not like any of the retroclones. It's pretty much it's own ruleset that allows you to plug in old adventures / OSR adventures with minimal fuss. You may want to check out Adventurer Conqueror King System if you are looking for classic...

I own Dyson's Delves in softcover. It is an awesome resource for any DM (but especially us OSR folks)

over a week later and i still need to finish reading all of the posts ;)

Yesterday's Blogfest was amazing - and humbling - I am a man amongst giants, and it was a privilege to help coordinate everything. Oh course, I had nothing to post of my own, as I was too busy trying to keep up with the other 139 blogs ;)

Currently we have 103 blogs signed up to participate. Frog God Games, d20SWSRD.com, Matt Finch (Mr S&W Himself), Purple Sorcerer Games, Tim Shorts from the Gothridge Manor Blog, Spes Magna Games, myself and I'm pretty sure one or two others are stepping up to offer gifts to both participating...

Morrus, I just mentioned this on my blog and G+ I can't guarantee the quality of the pitches, but you should get a few ;)