I am looking for a dense wargame that I can play for decades and still be heavily invested and which includes multiplayer. I cannot decide among these.
I’m curious when and why you’ve chosen to use GURPS over a bespoke game for a genre or setting, except when it otherwise doesn’t exist. Is it just because of familiarity with the system?
(Eyeing the revised basic set hardcover as a newcomer…)
Meaning, no hacks. What are your favorite modules, bestiaries, and rules supplements?
Several years after release, how has Pathfinder 2e been treating you? There’s a local game advert and I’m likely going to sign up to see how it plays.
What have you liked? Disliked? What keeps you playing, or what caused you to drop it?
I’m curious to return to crunchy “trad” play after so long steeping myself in the old-school scene.
I see there's a big Vampire the Requiem sale going on. I've never played any White Wolf RPGs. Would Vampire the Requiem 2nd Edition be a good place to start? Or is there a better game I should look to instead, price be damned?
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What other TTRPG scenes or spaces feel like the OSR when it comes to blogging, DIY, rule sets, energy, and open licensing?
I realize that I only advertised this on osr and forgot to do so here. I've cooked up a seven Voyages of Zylarthen megadungeon and put it out on lulu. It's priced to only cover printing costs (no profit to myself - this is a hobby, not a job) and is currently only available in print because you should own physical media. It was made to be held in your hands and roughed up with play 🙂
The book contains a floating cloud city under which is the dungeon in question along with some extraplanar sub-areas which can be unlocked through exploration, or just run as needed in your home games. There's lots of new magic items and monsters and loads of art that's certainly too shitty to have been made by AI. It's 7VoZ so super compatible with OD&D or your favourite retroclone and leans in a bit more towards Arabian Nights and the ancient world than it does traditional Tolkienesque fantasy.
If you want a quick preview before buying, I've thrown up all couple pages on https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkZt9TnYgcT5nHgp164D3GIpXk\_LkcfR/view
Enjoy and fight on!
Fantastic news.
I haven’t played a “mainstream” TTRPG since 5e back in the mid-2010s. Began my TTRPG hobby with 4e back in 2009. I have mainly played old-school games in the scant little time I’ve had to play over the past decade.
I have never watched Critical Role and know nothing about this system, but my co-workers requested a TTRPG one-shot in about a month. I then hope to run it for public games locally as well as online. It looks beautiful and is totally alien to the OSR games I’ve grown used to.
Looking forward to diving in!
I'm reading Lord Dunsany and anthologies of fairy tales. They're all inspiring me to run a game based on pre-Tolkien fantasy that isn't necessarily pulp-oriented and instead derives from fairy tales. I'm looking at either using Cairn 2e as a baseline or Dolmenwood.
How tied to its setting is Dolmenwood? Could I use it, theoretically, to run amuck with stories that aren't tied to its locales, persons of interest, and bestiary? Or is it something where the setting is the game, so to speak, and the two are inseparable?
I’m looking for a system that will permit me to play games heavily informed by medieval romances (actual, literal medieval romances from the 12th through 15th centuries). I’m waffling between Pendragon, Mythic Bastionland, Codex Integrum, and creating my own based on OD&D. I don’t have a stable group, unfortunately, so this would be online or with strangers at a recurring, open library game. Which would you recommend, and why?
I’ve looked at Aquellare and it doesn’t seem to be quite what I’m looking for.
Not a hardcore dedicated group, in other words.
... are both free and amazing if you're looking to get into the old-school scene. This is a friendly reminder to anyone passing by who is OSR curious but has yet to take the plunge.
If you're just starting out, Basic Fantasy will be easier to grok. Iron Falcon isn't hard, per se, but it hews closer to an earlier version of D&D that may appear a bit more alien than one would be used to if you're coming from more modern iterations.
Regardless, both are worth checking out and are a quick read. The communities for both are really kind, too, which is a plus.
BRW Games has put out a call to adventure writers for submissions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXec-RNF3s&t=97s
Link to the BRW Games submissions website: https://www.brwgames.com/write-for-brw-games/
>BRW Games is actively seeking adventure submissions for the Adventures Dark and Deep™ line. Since Adventures Dark and Deep™ is similar to most Old School games such as 1E, OSRIC, Swords & Wizardry, etc., submissions compatible with those sorts of systems are acceptable. We are not accepting submissions for any other game system at this time (such as Pathfinder or 5E).
If your adventure emphasizes exploration, player choice, memorable locations, and classic fantasy roleplaying, we’d like to hear from you.
I am curious what your retroclone of choice is, if you don’t use the original booklets.
https://forums.giantitp.com/forumdisplay.php?59-D-amp-D-3e-3-5e-d20
I was a little surprised, but I guess I shouldn’t be. I have fond memories of 3.5. It was the first D&D logo I saw. Waxing a bit nostalgic…
Any other people with fond memories or current players here?