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As good as the first: Knock! 2 is a gazette of weird OSR insight

September 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The art is incredible and frequent, and enough to push Knock! 2 firmly into that impressively professional look that some zines never reach.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: knock!, Old School Renaissance, reviews, the merry mushmen

Stellagama Publishing releases OSR sci-fi Cepheus Deluxe

September 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cepheus Deluxe puts you in the shoes of an adventurer visiting distant stars and encountering the unknown.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cepheus Deluxe, Cepheus Engine, Old School Renaissance, sci-fi, stellagama publishing

Old school feel with modern sensibilities: Chromatic Dungeons

July 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As OSR fans might argue, there’s a concept of “rulings, not rules”, and therefore the feel of an old school game isn’t tied to the game mechanics era.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chromatic dungeons, izegrim creations, kickstarters, Old School Renaissance, rod wiebel

TSR Games (3) threatens legal action against OSR community

June 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Facebook Group Old School TSR Games has reported the new TSR Games has threatened legal action.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legal, Old School Renaissance, tsr games

Izegrim Creations’ Chromatic Dungeons plans the old school feel but for the modern community

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chromatic Dungeons TTRPG. Bringing the old school feel of TSR era gaming into the modern community. That is, an OSR clone, with the feel of old school gaming, but with modern sensibilities of game design applied, and to be presented to be welcoming and representative of just how diverse our gaming community has become since the 80s.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chromatic dungeons, izegrim creations, Old School Renaissance, rod wiebel

Free to Download: OSRIC 1e (400+ pages of AD&D retro-clone)

June 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

OSRIC, Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a recreation of AD&D 1e published in 2006. It’s one of the first and most successful D&D retro-clones.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Old School Renaissance, osric

Under Hill, By Water: An OSR game about turnip contests

October 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The idea of Hobbits deciding to raid a dungeon and face death just to collect some gold coins is pretty farfetched.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, Old School Renaissance

$644 OSR RPG collection up on Humble Bundle

September 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Frog God Games has an extensive collection of Old School Revival RPGs up at Humble Bundle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, castles & crusades, frog god games, humble bundle, Old School Renaissance

Free to Download: A preview of City of Solstice

October 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An OSR setting from Charles Rice and Apocalyptic Games, a fantasy version of The Untouchables set a decade after the villains took control of the city.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Old School Renaissance, osric

OSR fantasy RPG Humble Bundle

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The discount site Humble Bundle has $624 worth of OSR RPG goodies in a bundle. It’s a $1 to get a slice of the action.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: frog god games, humble bundle, kobold press, Mythmere Games, North Wind Adventures, Old School Renaissance, sales, Troll Lord Games

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