OSR
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(Header image from Zachary Kadolph on Unsplash) “What games are good for one-shots?” is a very common refrain in my circles, and I love to hear it. It means people are branching out, trying new things. It’s also a difficult question to make a generic response to. Often it is dependent on table size and…
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(Content warning: Imagined self harm) Before we begin this review, let us engage in a meditative exercise. If you cannot remember the following sequence of instructions, you may need someone you trust to read this to you while you ponder. This should be treated as a solo journey, but companionship may increase its value. Turn…
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(Header image is The Wild Swans by Arthur Joseph Gaskin from Birmingham Museums Trust) Get in loser, we doing fairy-tales. Perils & Princesses is a strong contender for the best of my hot OSR summer (HOSRS), which surprised me. I had the (incorrect) assumption that this was somewhat of a family game: Built from the…
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(Header image is the enchantingly beautiful cover art of Electric Bastionland, illustrated by Alec Sorensen) The cover art shown above played a significant part in my departure from DND 5e, and the subsequent luminous adventure into the world of amazing rpgs that exist outside the Wizard’s gravitational pull.
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(Header image from Jeff S. PhotoArt at HDCanvas.ca) “You all meet in a tavern…” Yes! This is exactly what I wanted, just a classic dnd experience with some new designer philosophies. I had in front of me a classic ranger character sheet, with interesting abilities that I chose myself by applying stickers from a wide…
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“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.“(Header image by the esteemed Johan Nohr for Into the Odd) Deep in my hot OSR summer, I came across this particularly bad take on Reddit, paraphrased below. “As much as I LOVE the idea of Into the Odd, the…
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(Header image is from The Grand Budapest Hotel, a Wes Anderson Film. The connection to Troika will become apparent.) How do I put this? Troika by Daniel Sell is groundbreaking, surreal, and unhinged. The settings and adventures are topnotch. It is so unique, but I don’t recommend you play it. Well, not using its system…
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(Header image from the beloved children’s novel, Redwall by Brian Jacques) Redwall was my childhood. Most people I know (nerds) had some form of exposure too. If you are reading this blog you probably read at least one of these glorious books, but I think I may have been one in the top 1% of…
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