The tabletop game uses the original rules from D&D, and the pitch promises easy-to-learn rules
Wood Planet Gaming Lodge acquires four OSR Beyond Belief Games’ RPGs
Blood & Bullets is not the only deal between the two publishers, as three more old-school games have been sold.
Shadowdark from The Arcane Library promises a new OSR and Kickstarts in a flash
Few OSR titles do so well on Kickstarter, but Shadowdark is designed to have a broad appeal.
Fainting Goat to release more Valor Knights with Electrocube War Adventures
You can win a copy of Champions of the Electrocube War: Omnibus Edition hero, which is everything you need to play Fainting Goat Games’ OSR-favoured RPG inspired by 80s robot cartoons.
Advanced Adventures Mega bundle: Old school TTRPG scenarios from Expeditious Retreat
The core rules are in OSRIC, and that’s usually free, available here to be handy and with $70 worth of downloads.
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.Â
Free to Download: Isle of Dragons – Player’s Guide
The OSR RPG Isle of Dragons by C.K. Ipson has a free to download Player’s Guide.
Download for Free: Christmas giveaway of Lost in Dungeon’s “Journeys into the Unknown”
The game, inspired by Ben Milton, Brandish Gilhelm, Chris McDowall, and Gavin Norman, has 10 lineages but no classes and uses diegetic advancement (rewards for actions, not just kills) and an item slot approach.
Embrace the dungeon crawl: Flying Monster Games kickstarts Adventurers of Combat & Quest! Intro Edition
Treasure tables that provide randomized loot, a storyline that is about smashing that evil scourge that has infested the world, and gives players the ability to create randomized encounters quickly to continue players’ questing.
The (Old-School) People v. Modern D&D
Woah! So here’s the deal: OSR players and DMs cling to the Gygaxian glory of yore, while the hashtag generation is all about novelty on demand. No…. Shocker!