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It's mostly OSE, but is technically a bespoke system.

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I think the main disconnect with D&D-style games is when people don't transition to large parties --> domain play. I absolutely agree that if you play D&D as a dungeon crawl from levels 1-14/1-36/1-20 (whatever your preferred version uses as a level range) it doesn't make sense, and you quickly...

Welcome to the last OSR News Roundup in September. This month has just flown by, at least for me, and we're staring down the barrel of the gun that is the end of the year. The past couple weeks have been pretty busy, and next month is the Backerkit sponsored Mothership Month, so we'll likely be...

There's 24 hours left to back this project! We're heading into the home stretch!

I did, in fact, use that article, but I also went through the OSE Classic and Advanced classes and reverse engineered them to come up with the formula I used in the Classing up the Joint publication.

Ah, I missed the race and class note. I'm a dyed-in-a-wool race-as-class guy.

<cracks knuckles> Sadly out of Date Wiki Entry *Binder: [[PHM #8]] *Brigand: [[Hex 15.42 The Keep of the Rawhide Gang]] *''Caballi'': [[Hex 26.35 Camp of the Horsefolk]] *''Caballi'' Destrier: [[Hex 26.35 Camp of the Horsefolk]] *Chelydra (turtle-folk): [[PHM 15]] *Chelydra waterwright...

We're heading into the tail end of September, and staring down towards the end of 2025. First, I'd like to apologize to Ron Sparks of BoredtoBoardGames. He reached out to me over the summer and asked me to mention his new release Against the Dark!, and I totally dropped the ball on it. Sorry...

Looks like that's not the only game WTG has managed to, um, mismanage. It sounds like the release of Mark Hunt's BX Gangbusters is not going so well: Gangbusters B/X Edition? | Tabletop Roleplaying Open

They ran into this issue with both Dolmenwood and the OSE boxset reprint. I think one of the reasons that people like Crawford are so successful is they just do one thing. As soon as I saw all the add-ons for Dolmenwood I knew it was going to take far longer than they anticipated to produce it...

Welcome to the third OSR News Roundup for September 2025. There were a ton of entries last week; one reader commented that it was like everyone got home from summer break and pressed publish at the same time. Let's see if this week continues at the same pace. A warning, though, that itch was...

I loved it. I started playing again last year, and I was able to jump in straight having last played in . . . 1994?

Yeah, no kidding! I was really surprised at the number of releases this week.

I try to catch as many new releases as I can, but sometimes I miss one, and I'll try to plug stuff that I missed that seems really interesting. Back in March Thunder Toad Games released their first adventure Titan's Throne: Infested Archives, a sandbox-style adventure for characters of level...

The Bree-YARC Quickstart Kickstarter is now live. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/bree-yarc-rpg-quickstart

Welcome to the first news roundup for September. Here in the States it is Labor Day. The first thing I wanted to plug isn't a release, but an event; on September 28th, Pure Panic and Games in Silver Springs is hosting a mini-convention, in conjunction with the indie rpg group Designed in the...

Welcome to the last News Roundup for August. First, I'd like to apologize to Will, of Inverted Castle Press. I had fully planned on mentioning their release Manic at the Monastery, but it slipped through the cracks. It's an adventure for characters of levels 1-3, and is statted for both OSE and...

And the Quickstart is now live on Drivethru.

Welcome to the third News Roundup for August. For new readers, this is a compilation of last week's new releases that I found in the OSR and indie RPG fields. I don't promote anything that contains AI assets, and I also make my best effort to promote the works of marginalized creators. If you've...