OSRIC -- update

[Xyanthon]

P&P, I can't wait to see the 1.0 version of OSRIC. I'm eager to get some more projects going for it (of course, after I get all of the art I can handle for the OSRIC Companion done).

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

First off, who are you and what have you done with PapersandPaychecks?

*grins*

It's certainly true that I prefer Moorcock to Tolkein. But when you're writing about halflings, there's really only one definitive source...

Secondly, you've done an admirable job of keeping our favorite game alive, and this is just another chapter in what I hope will be the success story of OSRIC. What's more, is you're free distribution only further illustrates that love of the game should be the primary force behind RPG products of any source. If things keep going the way they are, I'm sure folks will be playing OSRIC materials and discovering the best way to game for a long time to come. Good job, P&P, and hope to see you around DF again sometime soon. You're absence has been noted .

Jeremy.

*blush*

Thanks for the kind words!

 

[SuStel]

By my l337 pow3rz, in OSRIC v1.00, halflings may be druids with a ceiling of 6th level.

I find it difficult to imagine hobbits gathering in a stone ring at midnight to perform sacrifices with bloody knives! Still, druids "can be visualized as medieval cousins of what the ancient Celtic sect of Druids would have become had it survived the Roman conquest" (Players Handbook, p. 21), so maybe the later Druids would have been more hobbit-friendly.

 

[Nikosandros]

I find it difficult to imagine hobbits gathering in a stone ring at midnight to perform sacrifices with bloody knives! Still, druids "can be visualized as medieval cousins of what the ancient Celtic sect of Druids would have become had it survived the Roman conquest" (Players Handbook, p. 21), so maybe the later Druids would have been more hobbit-friendly.

AD&D druids are not really into blood sacrifice... after all they are true neutral.

 

[Geoffrey]

AD&D druids are not really into blood sacrifice... after all they are true neutral.

In the Celtic Mythos section of the AD&D Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia, it is noted that druids regularly perform human sacrifice.

 

[Nikosandros]

In the Celtic Mythos section of the AD&D Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia, it is noted that druids regularly perform human sacrifice.

The issue of how canon that book is, is a matter for another thread...

 

[philreed]

I won't link to the RPGNow category just yet, because they only include Expeditious Retreat, Goblinoid Games, Mob United Press and 0one's OSRIC releases -- Ronin Arts inadvertently got skipped.

It's all fixed now.

http://enworld.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=1_14_2253

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

The issue of how canon that book is, is a matter for another thread...

Probably. I do think that book's 1e canon, personally -- it needs to be used selectively, but then so do all the 1e materials.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

So when are the books going to be available to the general public?

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

So when are the books going to be available to the general public?

Hi Frukathka, and thanks for your interest in OSRIC!

If you mean the .pdf version of OSRIC 1.00, then it'll be available before the end of November.

If you mean the US English print version of OSRIC 1.00, then I'm hoping it'll be available by Christmas, but this does depend on things I don't control, so I can't promise.

Other releases will be in 2007.