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Old School Revival

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Old School Revival - Classic Rules Table Top Role-playing and the OSR Hobby

Rules- The community is to tiny, we can be really rules light at this point.

  1. Don't be a jerk.

  2. Everyone is welcome.

  3. Try to stay kind of on topic.

New to OSR?

Here are three widely tested systems which offer free PDF rulebooks.

Basic Fantasy Created to be compatible with 3/3.5e, this is fully fleshed out OSE goodness written to be more approachable. Uses ascending armor class. Print options are sold at near cost and are very very inexpensive.

Old School Essentials Basic OSE is the most popular reproduction of the original B/X set. Uses descending armor class. With several different iterations at several different prices, this PDF is free and covers the basics. Enough to get a game going.

White Box : Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game A spiritual successor to Swords & Sorcery White Box. This is the complete OSR experience. Uses descending armor class, but contains alternate status for ascending. Like Basic Fantasy, the print version is under five bucks on amazon.

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An uber-lite rules hack for Old School Roleplaying Games.

If you like Knave, Into the Odd, DCC, OSE, LotFP, and the like, you will probably enjoy this.

Featuring: -pay what you want -quick character creation -old school compatibility -a unique leveling system -fast and fun combat -different character sheets for characters, 0-level characters/hirelings, and even pack animals -an extremely exhaustive list of medieval occupations

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You make the same error the majority of people does, Brew.

You compare your game to others, without providing any details as to what aspects they share. There's nothing specified that makes the possible recipient say "wow, I want to play the game".

Effectively, 99% of people are going to hit "just take me to downloads" thinking "eh, it's probably the same shit everyone does, gonna add it to a library and read... sometime... in the future... probably... OH, WHAT'S THAT OTHER PYWY GAME FEATURING QUIRKY NAME AND 'similar to...' PREMISE?!"

tl;dr: "sell me on your game, and do it well" is a must, not an option. 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not worried. It’s a 15 page hack. If your interest wasn’t piqued by the absurd list of medieval occupations, I don’t know what to tell you! The people who have played it with me enjoyed it and now maybe others will as well. That’s fine for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this game have anything to do with Bob and Doug MacKenzie?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dang it! lol