Osr rpg

"This tome contains alphabetical listings of monsters designed for use with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons™ game system. Each creature is described and most are illustrated for easy identification." Eighty one saw the release of one of the best & imaginative monster books for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first edition. Without classic Games Workshop & White Dwarf magazine we would never have gotten the Fiend Folio. 'The Fiend Factory' column in White Dwarf lead directly to the creation of…

Lockpicking

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DAGGER is an OSR RPG that relies on the use of another OSR RPG (your choice really) to be fully used. At it's core, it's a series of instructions on how to simplify OSR gaming to bring children into the game - kids from 5 and up. It's only 8 pages, and that includes the cover and the OGL, but it's simplicity is where it shines. So simple, I know of someone who is already working on hacking it into a drinking game for adults ;) It's free, it works and it may just open up a new world of…

A blog about science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books published during 1968 to 1988

When you start to dive below the surface of Holmes Dungeons & Dragons, you begin to hit the raw nerve of gaming. The ideas of adventuring are draw out, clearly defined, & go straight back to their pulp roots. Sure Paul Anderson's Three Hearts & Three Lions always gets the press for introducing the concepts of the war between Chaos & Law into Dungeons & Dragons. But I think its an older pulp concept & conceit then the the 1961 novel by Paul Anderson. Three Hearts & Three Lions is a panache of…

Zork 1

I have been playing Dungeons & Dragons again lately and the books have migrated from a closet to a prominent shelf in the living room where they belong.

In 1981, Basic Dungeons & Dragons by Tom Moldvay released, quickly followed by Expert D&D by David Cook. The Old-School Essentials Rules Tome by Gavin...

Such extraordinary efforts of power and courage will always command the attention of posterity, but the events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities, undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XLVI, Edward Gibbon. Historians quote Gibbon like theater…

I’ve drawn up a few “how to” infographics during 2013, and a couple of them went viral out on the wild world of the interwebz. The first one also appears in a modified form in the…

Such extraordinary efforts of power and courage will always command the attention of posterity, but the events by which the fate of natio...

OSR Character Sheet - Impress your friends and family with this hand drawn character sheet for use with your favorite old school roleplaying g

Elven court (Jack Pennington, AD&D 2e Player’s Handbook, TSR, 1989)

The 7 character classes in Mentzer’s red box basic D&D Players Manual (looks like Jeff Easley, 1983)

"How hard could this be?" A party enters the Tomb of Horrors. (David Sutherland, from AD&D module S1, TSR, 1978.)