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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.

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  2. Everyone is welcome.

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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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Completely random session? (lemmy.world)
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Has anyone run a completely randomly generated session before? Random as in, not a handful of prepared encounters the PCs can seek out, but random as in every encounter is generated on the fly such that not even the DM knows what's going to happen.

There are a whole bunch of random generators on donjon, and I figured I could probably open a bunch of them in different tabs and roll them when I need...

But is this style of play even fun? And is it an effective use of our 8 hours a month? (It sounds fun to me; I have till January to figure out if I can pull it off though lol)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Solo role players do this kind of thing often, and yes it is fun. I'd suggest looking into the Mythic Game Master Emulator and/or Ironsworn to give you a feel for how they do it, then you can take inspiration for your own game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The problem with this is that it makes going left the same as going right, meaning that any decisions by the players where their characters should go become meaningless. I use a ton of random generators but it's in conjunction with more prepared stuff.

https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles https://idiomdrottning.org/the_quest_queue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes! Use solo rpg tools and you can play with a few friends and no DM. It can be fun!