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Crystal City Chronicles is a companion to Six Weeks on Zephyrus-2, an anthology of six Space-Western adventures compatible with Stars Without Number™ set on the lawless frontier mining planet Zephyrus-2. Though designed to complement and enhance that product, I have endeavored to make this as...

Six Weeks on Zephyrus-2 - a Space-Western Adventure Anthology compatible with Stars Without Number is now officially for sale on Drivethrurpg.com for $9.99! DriveThruRPG Synopsis The characters are stuck on the remote mining world of Zephyrus-2 for six weeks. In the meantime, they are...

Currently playing OSE on Foundry with 5-6 players. Although we don't officially have a caller, we have a de-facto caller - one player who is designated as making decisions for where the party is going next in the dungeon. Their sole purpose is to eliminate tedious debates about which door to...

The mapping duties in my group fall to the one player who happens to be a professional architect. When we played in person, she drew pretty good maps on graph paper. When we switched to VTT play, she started mapping in her professional CAD tools on her work computer.

From 1980 - 1986, 10-16 year old me style of play was "get together with some friends, make a character, and be lucky to fight a few monsters, then the next time you get together, make some new characters, and be lucky to fight a few monsters." Was there a difference between D&D and AD&D? At the...

We play side-based d6 initiative and turn phases. We play on Foundry so there's always a map and always tokens, but if we were in person there'd be a map and minis and some terrain on the table. Before initiative: any spells being cast? Each side rolls 1d6 initiative. Side with initiative: 1...

I remember playing D&D in junior high in the early 80s and seeing the Companion and Master level boxed sets and just boggling. We couldn't keep a consistent campaign going for 2+ sessions. I couldn't imagine playing to 15th-to-30th level!

The wizard's player in our OSE campaign (3d6 in order) says he has two jobs: 1. To buy stuff for the other player characters. 2. He has a Macro in Foundry that says "Rah! Rah! Siss-boom-bah! Go team!"

Yes, but in this context, I'm asking for a rules clarification for Old School Essentials specifically, on the Old School Essentials Facebook group - but the answers pull from all areas of that continuum. To be fair, this happened to me when we first started playing OSE. I enforced a "free...

Yes, spells and defensive movement should be declared before initiative is rolled. In practice, I forget to ask about spells or defensive retreats before initiative ALL THE TIME! It's become kind of a running joke, actually. Me: pushes "Next Round" button on Foundry, initiative is rolled...

That's an optional rule in OSE. We talked about it but my players were like "Uh, no thanks!"

Its actually pretty quick. It usually goes like this: Before initiative: any spells being cast? Each side rolls 1d6 initiative. Side with initiative: 1. All characters check morale (NPCs only) 2. All characters move (advance or withdraw only, no fancy maneuvers) 3. All characters resolve...

I will say this, however. Whenever I ask a rule question about B/X/OSE on the OSE Facebook group, I will get answers quoting rules from every edition all over the map. It seems no one on the OSE FB group actually plays OSE RAW. People start quoting rules from AD&D, Rules Cyclopedia, Mentzer, or...

I ran AD&D by the book a few years ago (by God, that was 2014! where did the time go?) and I did, indeed, need a detailed spreadsheet to keep track of things. Then we played 5E for nine years. Now I'm running Old School Essentials (with Moldvay B/X and Rules Cyclopedia) and OSE/B/X is indeed...

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The Terror-Dome of Warlord Daikhan, a 60-page retro-sci fi adventure scenario compatible with Stars Without Number, written and illustrated by Christian Conkle, is now available for purchase at DrivethruRPG for only $9.99! The Terror-Dome of Warlord Daikhan - Geek Rampage | DriveThruRPG.com

Working on an adventure compatible with Stars Without Number. It's a retro-Eighties sci-fi adventure in the vein of Starhunter, Metalstorm, or Space Raiders - any low-budget sci-fi movie filmed in abandoned factories and the California desert. It's called the Terror-Dome of Warlord Daikhan.