OSR OSR-inspired video game, The Secret of Weepstone, has a trailer

[Nikosandros]

Cool video. I could find very little info. Will they be making a module as well or is that just for the video?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Cool video. I could find very little info. Will they be making a module as well or is that just for the video?

If they were doing a Kickstarter, I would bet on the module being available for backers as a way to get some extra cash relatively cheaply.

Since it's already available to wishlist on Steam it's probably (but not definitely) not going to Kickstarter, though. In which case, it's probably just something for the sizzle reel.

 

[Nikosandros]

If they were doing a Kickstarter, I would bet on the module being available for backers as a way to get some extra cash relatively cheaply.

Since it's already available to wishlist on Steam it's probably (but not definitely) not going to Kickstarter, though. In which case, it's probably just something for the sizzle reel.

Yes, likely it's not a real module, but it would be kind of cool if it was.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yes, likely it's not a real module, but it would be kind of cool if it was.

I can definitely see there being a lot of demand for that.

I'm also wondering if they're going to get a letter from WotC, asking them to not making the 1E Monster Manual lifts quite so blatant.

 

[Nikosandros]

I can definitely see there being a lot of demand for that.

I'm also wondering if they're going to get a letter from WotC, asking them to not making the 1E Monster Manual lifts quite so blatant.

It seems to me that, at least so far, WotC has been very tolerant (or maybe very indifferent) with "old-school" look-alike products.

 

[Sacrosanct]

80s D&D didn't have "crits" but im assuming this DM houserulled them in.

That was a super-common house rule. I remember people I played with repeatedly being surprised that it wasn't in the DMG, but just photocopied (or mimeographed!) from one magazine or fanzine or another.

Yeah, we used both The Armory d30 critical hits table and, later, the Arduin critical hit and fumbles tables.

Dragon magazine #39 introduced a critical hit table, so lot of us did have them in 1e. That's the second time today on this forum I've referenced Dragon #39 for completely different reasons. Weird.

 

[Mannahnin]

Dragon magazine #39 introduced a critical hit table, so lot of us did have them in 1e. That's the second time today on this forum I've referenced Dragon #39 for completely different reasons. Weird.

I remember (and the 2E DMG suggests) simple double damage on 20s being the most common crit rule, though critical hit charts with all kinds of funky results definitely date back to OD&D. Dragon #39 was 1980, for AD&D, but Arduin (at least) had them in 1977, and I'm sure it wasn't the only source.

 

[Jahydin]

Looks awesome!

Aesthetically, reminds me of Cryptmaster (1st person puzzle/riddle/dungeoncrawl) which is also worth checking out!

 

[Ringtail]

I asked about the underlying system on reddit and one of the developers responded.

Says they started with B/X D&D and then added more bits and bobs as they went to improve the experience. Probably where the crits came from.