This is one of the coolest OSR things I've seen in a long time.

[Imperialus]

And amazingly enough I'm not talking about Dungeon Crawl Classics

I noticed a link to this blog posted on Knights and Knaves and holy crap what a find. To put it quickly it's a blow by blow account of an OD&D campaign running between 1975 and 1977. It's pretty crazy, you have adventures where well over a dozen PC's go into a gonzo illogical dungeon, half of them die, the survivors recruit more and repeat. They use level titles to describe the PC's. It's like an archeological dig into the earliest days of the hobby. Really cool.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Awesome!

 

[MerricB]

Ooh - there's a rules clarification there that XP is gained only for treasure and monsters killed - sleeping, charming & driving off monsters is NOT worth XP!

But the entire thing is a brilliant document.

Cheers!

 

[jdrakeh]

Pretty awesome - I'm all about Warlock at the moment, but this no doubt merits my attention in the future.

 

[Imperialus]

Ooh - there's a rules clarification there that XP is gained only for treasure and monsters killed - sleeping, charming & driving off monsters is NOT worth XP!

But the entire thing is a brilliant document.

Cheers!

Yeah, I like the fact that they actually phoned Gary to get the rules clarification too.

 

[Ethernaut]

Yeah, I like the fact that they actually phoned Gary to get the rules clarification too.

One of my players works for Len Scesnsy and he brought the collected documents to a game session about a month ago. Amazing find. Also check out the Q&A with Len and John (Risus Monkey: Ryth Q&A) and the additional 10th issue of the chronicle (Risus Monkey: Ryth Chronicle Number 10 (Updated)).

 

[Imperialus]

Very cool

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

That's a fun read