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In playstyle and intent Shadowdark is certainly much closer to B/X. Mechanically its a slimmed down 5e. I definitely think SWADE is crunchier than 5e. I think it's got more corner case resolution details. It's got more character complexity I feel. Granted they are both mid-crunch, and...

I’ve owned every edition of D&D. The only version sitting on my shelf anymore is 4e and couple of sourcebooks from earlier editions I have for reference (World Builder Guidebook, Grey Box FR). I bought 2014 5e. It wasn’t for me. As I try and get to the minimum number of games to own and run...

I voted Mythic Age. The idea of a Supers crossed with mythology sounds pretty fascinating as either the ur source of the mythology or supers being misidentified as the scions of the gods. I also voted Age of Exploration/Empire. A game set during the colonial era that explores supers with and...

Shadowdark Session 1: Tomb of the Serpent King Learning to OSR.

I bought it to hack into Savage Worlds but have been waiting for the Savage Would new Sci Fi companion to really mess with it. Hopefully my hard copy will be in next week. I really liked what I saw from Salvage Union when images through it. I have not given a close read yet though.

Symbaroum, Numenera, The Olde World, Age of Sigmar/Soulebound, Coriolis all are fantastic settings the I’d love to run games in. I don’t love the systems attached to some of them though. The two systems that have excited me the most in the last ten years have been Blades in the Dark and...

My personal favorite is Forge of Fury. It’s a modern masterpiece of dungeon design and the best adventure context to come out of the 3.x era.

Neat idea.

I too usually find some YouTube content particularly dealing with basic mechanics. Then I read the book. Then I try and play a game. Solo, one-shot, test scenarios, doesn’t matter. Run the system as you understand it. After I’ve given a test drive I hit the book again. I find I have a lot...

I'm keeping better track this year. got my spreadsheet started and everything.

Less about specific story beats or milestones and more whether we advanced whatever story is being told. Sessions where you spin your wheels and handle logistics, while sometimes necessary, rarely feel successful. Even Lin the context of player driven goals you can ask the question are we...

Pathfinder for Savage Worlds works really well out of the box. I don’t love how they converted the APs. They still need to take advantage of some of the SWADE tools (dramatic tasks, quick encounters) but that’s easy enough to change /handle. They also should have combined some encounters. The...

How far do you want to go? Reduce the weapons chart. Doesn’t matter what a weapon actually is it fits one of the categories: light hand weapons - d6 Regular hand weapon - d8 Heavy hand weapons - d10, require 2 hands Reach weapon - d8, reach 1, 2 hands Bows - d6 Crossbow - d8

Did we have fun? Were the Players engaged? Was the GM on his game? Did we accomplish something meaningful content wise?

Eliminate the hit roll. Just roll damage(or apply static damage). Static DCs. Trivial, Easy, medium, hard, impossible.

That’s progress.

I also found some stuff in Tyrandor. They have a setting rule that eliminates the golden hour for Healing checks. It also limits magical healing to new wounds suffered since the last time you were healed magically. Tyrandor also has an interesting way to deal with light sources (not sure if...

55 Kickstarters backed. Only 1 failed to deliver completely. Interface Zero 3.0 for Savage Worlds. The author has delivered the Player and GM books digitally, and I think there were PoD coupons at one point. The remaining books have not been delivered. I think we'll get the MalMart Catalog...

Feel mostly, and some sense of procedural play. I think I could get close to what I’m looking for with SW G&G, especially staking something like Hard Choices and Gritty Damage setting rules with it.

Shrink my physical rpg library. Focus on one or two game systems for the year. Probably GURPS and SWADE but possibly Shadowdark (see the next bullet). Run something OSR adjacent. Right now I’m debating what that means to me, and what system to use. Contenders are a SWADE hack (using Gold and...