#osr games

[legionofmyth]

Forbidden Lands - Strongholds

🛠️ Raise your banners in Forbidden Lands! 🏰 Our latest video showcases how to build the ultimate stronghold in this TTRPG. Become a legend! 🐉 Watch now! #ForbiddenLands #StrongholdBuilding

Forbidden Lands – Core GameA Simple Rescue – (Intro Adventure) Discover stronghold building in Forbidden Lands RPG. Watch our guide to fortify your legend now! Conquer the wilds of Forbidden Lands by crafting your very own stronghold, a vital sanctuary in this tabletop RPG by Free League Publishing. This video delves into the robust stronghold building system, where strategic planning meets…

[ribbloid]

[prokopetz]

I love this alternate universe "what if OD&D had been a shitty late 1980s zine game" thing a certain segment of the OSR crowd has going on, but my problem is that even when they're going out of their way to emulate the characteristic jank of the era, the production values are way too slick. If we're really aiming to capture the spirit of the times, where's the grotesque line breaking and the paragraphs that end in mid sentence? Where are the illustrations that were clearly drawn on line-feed printer paper in ballpoint pen, complete with visible edges where they were cut out and pasted into the master document? Where are the layouts where no two pages have the same margins? Where are the parts where the text is randomly canted at about a five degree angle off horizontal because somebody fucked up when feeding that particular page into the Xerox machine and couldn't be arsed to redo it? I want an end product that's barely readable, is what I mean to say.

[mismaxx]

[franciscolemos]

Gathering the ingredients

[losttrailsmaps]

City Streets Map Pack

Greetings everyone, welcome to another map pack! It features 12 total maps, including city streets, bridges, cathedrals and much more.

Patrons get access to gridded/ungridded and watermark-free maps. The grid size of each map is 30x40.

Check out the map pack here.

[dewthorne]

Old School Runescape

[chrisairgames]

When in Rome

Right, so I write for Mothership RPG, yeah?

It was basically a professional obligation for me to go see Alien: Romulus on its opening weekend.

Short review: Cool. Though I wish directors would make a new alien horror movie instead of new Alien movies.

Lemme tell ya, I might have designer brain disease, but this movie really is a series of problems for a sci-fi adventure, haha. My favorite thing about this movie was the smart, player-skill level problem solving the characters came up with. I was actually impressed. The film made me want to put my friends through the same ringer, and write up a similar scenario.

So I did.

When in Rome is a 20pg Mothership RPG adventure module with two player handouts, obviously heavily inspired by Alien: Romulus. I started last weekend, and released it yesterday. (What’s wrong with me, right?). That is: writing, playtesting, Mothership 3pp approval, peer review (thanks Josh Domanski, Christian Sorrell, Iko and Allen Hall!), hiring Brandon Yu “Chaoclypse” for the sick art, revising and putting into layout.

So yeah, this module is basically an adaptation of the film, but it does have some very notable (read: legally distinct) differences.

It's free for the next five hours, and I would love to hear what you think, and how your PCs fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Click here to download the module on itch.io. Note that I’m still working on the plaintext file and VTT asset updates. I would love to hear what you think, and how your players’ crews fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Good luck.

[theinstagrahame]

Announcing: Restful Actions

(It's here. You can go get it now!)

Restful Actions is a collection of 10 minigames for downtime periods in any TTRPG. They're designed to help players resolve character conflicts, complete goals, heal or explore, and take much shorter shopping trips. (You can, in fact, download the shopping trip minigame as a demo!)

For GMs, the goal is to give you a break, so you can start preparing the next Big Event. The minigames invite players to fill in some details of the world, creating shops, landmarks, even creatures.

You can pick up your copy here:

I've talked about this thing in more detail here:

[zranzax]

[legionofmyth]

Forbidden Lands - Journey & Survival

Dive into the heart of Forbidden Lands! 🗺️ Our new video decodes the thrill of survival and travel in this epic TTRPG. 🎲 Don't just play, survive! 🛡️ Watch now! #ForbiddenLands #TTRPGAdventure

Forbidden Lands – Core Game A Simple Rescue – (Intro Adventure) Master journeying and survival in Forbidden Lands RPG with our expert guide. Watch now! Embark on a gritty adventure through the treacherous landscapes of Forbidden Lands, the acclaimed tabletop RPG by Free League Publishing. This video guide plunges into the heart of survival and exploration mechanics that set Forbidden Lands apart…

[oldschoolfrp]

Ernie Gygax (Ernest Gary Gygax Jr), oldest son of Gary Gygax, has died. A highly polarizing figure in later life, he contributed to D&D's very early history by playing the character Tenser in home games and receiving credit as a playtester or occasionally coauthor when his father incorporated his ideas into publications. He also ran TSR's Dungeon Hobby Shop in Lake Geneva, WI, introducing many new customers to the game with demo sessions exploring his Hobby Shop Dungeon.

In 2012 he co-founded a new "TSR" with younger brother Luke and a diverse group of contributors including many familiar names from the AD&D days. Their Gygax Magazine produced 6 issues, ending after Gary's widow Gail sued the group for infringing copyrights and using the family name.

A 2015 Kickstarter for a published version of Ernie's Hobby Shop Dungeon titled Marmoreal Tomb went unfulfilled for many years before being turned over to Troll Lord Games for completion.

For many his legacy will be the convoluted, nasty history of "NuTSR" which directly led to a more sharply divided gaming community. These events were documented in detail by those who watched it unfold, including this thorough summary of events on EN World.

According to numerous accounts, Ernie was prominently involved in forming a third "TSR" in 2021 which claimed to be a continuation of the original company and attempted to license the TSR name to others and publish a new version of Star Frontiers. This venture split apart under legal pressure from other former members of the 2nd TSR and from WOTC which claimed IP infringement on the original Star Frontiers game which was still for sale as PDFs. The group also generated a storm of self-inflicted bad publicity through a series of bigoted anti "woke" social media posts and leaked product documents with overtly racist content. In interviews Ernie stood by the group's public positions, claiming their "playing style" was under attack by politically motivated persons. Major conventions quickly rejected the group, and Luke Gygax and many other TSR2 and OSR creators publicly repudiated TSR3's statements and spurious legal claims.

[prokopetz]

OSR games may not particularly be my thing, but I love seeing indie RPG designers whose usual line is more in the gay-catgirls-smoking-cigarettes strand of the medium decide to dip their toes into the OSR space and watching in real time as they discover the joys of writing Big Stupid Tables.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Poll: How important is a "leveling up" mechanic to you for a TTRPG?

For this poll "leveling up" is going to be defined very broadly. It could mean getting EXP and increasing level, it could mean using points to buy upgrades, whatever. The more your character does stuff, the more strong or complex their abilities get. How important is this feature to you in a TTRPG? Do you consider this an essential part of a TTRPG?

[franciscolemos]

Some OSR style hexes I made just for fun.