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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not the same without the binder...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, but it's easier to alphabetize, and if you alphabetized by compendium, you do not have to remember that Camels, Copper Automatons, and Winged Serpents appear in MC13, the Al-Qadim Compendium...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you for the post ! Perfect for my current campaign ! You're a legend !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is beautiful. AD&D had some really weird monsters. They are amazing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

So glad everyone likes it, I just added a new Table page so you can sort through all of the stats. Even split up the ones with different xp and thac0 for different Hit Dice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! This is gonna be great because I kept schlepping out my MC just to check number appearing since that's not in the encounter tables. Now I can find that much more easily.

Is there a way to download the site's files offline with like a tar or zip archive or git or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You can check out the current progress and download a copy on GitHub https://github.com/decheine/complete-compendium And you could even contribute if you wanted, there are still so many books to go 😉