Pham Nuwen posted:

thefakenews posted:

There is some interesting stuff about the Japanese version of the Basic Rules Cyclopedia here.

drrockso20 posted:

If you have a Crunchyroll account, go watch Record of Lodoss War right now, as that anime is directly based on the creators D&D campaigns(although they eventually switched to their own system because TSR made some really bad decisions when it came to how they handled D&D in markets outside of the United States and Canada)

WiiFitForWindows8 posted:

A Strange Aeon posted:

That one page dungeon contest produces some really useful stuff to throw on a hex map--I'd check it out:

https://www.dungeoncontest.com/

There's dozens of good ones and they're by nature self-contained, or at least, you'd have free reign to have them hook into other stuff in your world as much as you desired.

Zurui posted:

weird it's almost like all justifications for OSR as a genre are just post-hoc rationalizations

al-azad posted:

Going back to my thoughts on underused settings, I was thinking how I was going to get a “modern” game to work. Imagine your generic fantasy world has advanced to a contemporary age where communications, transit, and logistics are global and near instantaneous. The uncivilized races were either forced to integrate, domesticated, or hunted to near extinction. Dungeons have long been picked over, their treasure in museums or the hands of private collectors.

Player characters would be sort of like urban explorers and daredevils. It would sort of be like those people on YouTube who post videos of themselves diving off cliffs or spelunking in secluded caves. You would earn experience for being daring, taking the most dangerous path just because, and just doing dumb poo poo that would get you killed. Traditional concepts of treasure being trophies more than objects of value. Monsters are mostly feral (a personal excuse to throw my favorite monster owl bears at everyone) but secreted away in the scattered wilderness of the last remnants of dragons who still remember an age of gods and magic.

Glazius posted:

Non-funnels? Extremely. You'll probably need to take notes within the adventure to come up with some fronts you can lean on your PCs with.

Funnels? That's gonna need an adaptor.

al-azad posted:

Arneson wasn't as prolific and frankly he wasn't a good world builder. He was far better than Gygax at writing and structure because he's clearly a wargamer, but while Gygax's writing is disjointed his works are far more memorable and engaging.

Hollismason posted:

I actually got to play version of DnD with Arneson. It was interesting when he started the game by turning to the lone woman at the table and saying " Yeah so female characters get -2 to STR in this".

Xotl posted:

I never had any problem with calling pieces of poo poo pieces of poo poo. Everybody on this forum already knew Zak (and Pundit, and Satanis, and whoever) to be terrible and freely discussed that. I assumed that the ban was an agreed-upon attitude, since I copied it verbatim over from the other thread, and we also already have two threads in this very subforum where that discussion happens (and is happening right now): I figured that was plenty.

If people really think it's so important that we cover the topic here as well, I'll remove the request from the OP.

VacuumJockey posted:

To be completely clear about this, I'm neither condemning nor defending [a guy who has a long and storied history of abuse and harassment and has had multiple people accuse him of such]

VacuumJockey posted:

What I'm saying is that I doubt Mandy Morbid is a real name. She is referred to as Manda, but never fully named. And I honestly don't think it's a good idea for ms. Morbid to bring such serious charges public if she won't put her name on them. I don't mean that in a "gurl's dumb, hurr hurr" way, I mean it in a very real "rapists should be in prison" way; ms. Morbid should have quietly gathered her legal forces and witnesses and initiated a by-the-book criminal lawsuit, or pressed charges. Yes, I get that she's traumatized, who can blame her for reaching out to her friends and family? But doing it via public social media hurts her case, and could help Zak skate.

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

Anyone running an open table atm? I am, it's been going okay. Problem is everyone knows how to play OSR games really well so their overcautiousness has made for extremely profitable dungeon delves. I might up the random encounter rolls to once a turn and add more surprising monsters because they just hide in cleared rooms when anything approaches, set traps. It's like I have tucker's kobolds as players (they are all goblins and the megadungeon is a dwarven hold, pre-fall or collapse). I guess I'm not complaining but this is the first time I've ever run a 0e game and literally had no deaths in six sessions. (One henchman died and it was because he failed a morale check and ran onto a trap)

Southern Heel posted:

Edit : I see there is a general precedent for giving out XP relative to the amount of gold retrieved as well? That is still another 10 adventures before getting to level two though!!