Expanding the traditional OSR NPC reaction roll
Due to a disagreement over ownership, Munkao and I have severed ties. I have no further involvement with Centaur Games. I consider A Thousand Thousand Islands (ATTI) ended, as a project. ATTI was...
Choice Theory So you come to a split in a dungeon, or you come to a room set with three portals, each seems to lead in a different direc...
You can quit playing your pretend games wholesale and go back to living an undisturbed life not worrying about what a lyric game is or wheth...
I link here to the Cabinet of Banes and Boons, which is intended to be easily added to an existing dungeon location to give it a bit more p...
This (excellent) blog post came up in a 2h conversation with a friend with dyslexia so I spent an hour or so today recording it.
I'm playing a campaign that's LotFP plus slot based encumbrance house rules, and I've been disappointed in a lot of hexcrawling rulesets I've seen from the OSR. I particularly don't like Black Hack type usage dice / the Necropraxis overloaded encounter die, and that seems to be where thought has coalesced, with Errant being an example of a game that goes all in on that.
So I was delighted to discover that 1e AD&D has a supplement with workable mechanics for temperature (including wind chill!), foraging, hunting, etc. I need to massage it a little to fit into the LotFP skills system because it comes with its own but on the whole I'm excited that I have a way to go inside hexes and give players meaningful decisions about how they dress, where they camp, etc.
What about y'all, what material have you been reading recently?
Blogging has been a central mode of discourse since the early years of the OSR play style, and it has remained as such across different peri...