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@kaspi Weitere Idee für 30-120 minütige Slots für Newbies: Bereitet einfach einen Level eines #Megadungeons vor, z.B. #Stonehell
Drückt den Spieler*innen dann vorgefertigte #OSR Charaktere in die Pfötchen und lasst sie 30, 60 etc. Minuten den Dungeon erkunden. Vlt schaffen sie 2 oder 3 Räume, das Spiel fokussiert ganz auf das Erkunden. Das ist spannend und mit vglsw wenig Aufwand vorzubereiten: ein Dungeon, beliebig viele Gruppen/Anläufe. 3/3
Blog of Forlorn Encystment: AD&D's Most Expensive and Irritating NPC
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/06/ad-most-expensive-and-irritating-npc.html?m=1
Blog of Forlorn Encystment: Creating a Sandbox for B1: In Search of the Unknown
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2025/12/creating-miniature-sandbox-for-b1-in.html?m=1
our grenzland.club shared #unix server (check it out: https://grenzland.club/ ) has a #snac instance running that I have meant to do something with for a while.
talking about the #OSR LinksToWisdom wiki today I was thinking about how to actually get informed when something new shows up on there. Et voila: the @linkstowisdom account, which posts any changes to the wiki once an hour.
@kensanata there's also one for science fiction #ttrpgs https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/UplinkedIntelligence/HomePage
and one for adventures
https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Adventures/HomePage
I wanted to add a few more links to the good old OSR LinksToWisdom wiki, especially as @kensanata posted a link to a form to do that easy on our chat today.
instead I somehow started reworking a blog article I posted 15 years ago into something for my current campaign.
man, I really think I have adhd.
anyway, here's a link to the wiki
https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePage
Recent discussion of Kelek made me think of when I ran Quest for the Heartstone a couple of years ago. I made some maps and diagrams.
@DM_Zeppelin @chgowiz @Tim_Eagon
Wir haben heute das #MörkBorg-Abenteuer Tragic Castle Obsession gespielt/angefangen. (Ob wir weitere Termine finden, ist noch nicht klar.) Das war richtig abgefahren! ^^
Ein Zauberer (noch nie nen Tanzen-Spruch als „Angriffszauber“ erlebt), ein geflüchteter Adliger (plus sprechendem Pferd plus sarkastischem und enttäuschtem Schwert plus einem kleinen Äffchen, das den Adligen eigentlich immer ignorierte) und mein Armeedeserteur mit scharfen, übergroßen Zähnen, dem Hufeisen des Pferdes vom TOD und einem Totenschädel, mit dem die ganze Zeit gesprochen und geflüstert wurde. Und das Schloss, in das wir einfach mal so reinspaziert sind, war auch mehr als schräg.
Ich hoffe, wir spielen noch mal weiter, wir haben in den zwei Stunden nur etwa ein Drittel geschafft, meinte SL @bohemiaspielkunst
This is still, very much, a work in progress, but now, you can actually play through ascii maps. I worked on passing the ascii layout to the javascript port of Richard Garriott's DND1.
So I made an ascii representation of the first dungeon in the D&D red box. And I can now pass that to the DND1 engine, and you can play it. I mean, it is not going to be the same experience. It does not implement a bunch of features that would need to be done to have static monster encounters, and scripted events and other things like that. But, maybe, one day, I will get around to enhancing it.
EDIT Also, this means you can go make your own maps. You can see the above map in the ascii to svg tool.
#dnd #ttrpg #crpg #osr #ultima
Took a stab of converting the first dungeon in the 1984 Basic D&D Red Box, into an ascii map dungeon.
3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 20, exclusively on Patreon! Taru's forgery pays off in unexpected ways, as the malcontented populace of Dreg rise up in arms against the authorities! It's a full-scale riot, and the breggles are in danger of being swept up in it!
#OSR #TTRPG
https://www.patreon.com/3d6DowntheLine
While XNOO is at proofreading and Andy Action and crew are working hard at fulfilling Dungeon, Inc., the Mushmen are off to new adventures.
I mean this literally: we're working with @josephrlewis and @bradkerr on our next double feature!
It will be a pair of winter themed modules, both somewhat on the fairy-tale end of the fantasy spectrum. We should be on KS at the end of the summer, just in time for the last few heatwaves.
#osr #ttrpg #oldschoolessentials
#RPGPDFSpotlight InfiniBadger Press offers 348 pages of undying cosmic horror with The Necroid Host a horror sci-fi setting where ancient undead conquerors have been eating bioplanes for millennia. Detailed OSR campaign setting. #SciFi #Horror #OSR #PDF
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/scifi/rpg-pdf-spotlight-the-necroid-host-an-osr-horror-science-fiction-campaign-setting?utm_source=mastodon
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Glimmermark session 54: oh wow, the dice didn't like them today, they didn't even manage to get to the level they wanted to investigate without 4 encounters, then later fought a giant leech ("these things regenerate?") and got waylaid by a giant lizard on the way back. Didn't help that they also rolled badly and just didn't deal the damage they normally do.
Oh, wow:
«Robert The Smith used to be a member of the Smiths guild, but he has not been paying his dues ever since his wife fell ill. Morrissey, the leader of The Smiths Guild wants him to be taught a lesson. Or you can side with Robert and help him find The Cure in A Forest.»
Poor Bandit #3 and Female Archer Bandit.
https://www.tumblr.com/gondorrevealparty/819041292804931584/being-a-bandit-is-pretty-great-just-got-a-new
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being a Bandit is pretty great. Just got a new place with a couple friends, in Doghammer Cave (long history of hammering dogs there). It's pretty nice for the area! Zero bedrooms zero bathrooms, but it's got a falling spikeball trap in the entrance and a couple big linear multipurpose rooms full of barrels. I put a couple gold coins in each barrel. Really makes it feel like home.
Our leader is Klade Doghammer (long history of hammering dogs). He's the only one of us with a name. He likes to sit in the last room (our house has a last room because it's linear) at a desk with a half-finished page of notebook about how he'll get revenge on the town someday. My best friend Female Archer Bandit said the people in the town don't even consider us human. She says if you stay a bandit long enough they kill you for money. Sometimes when she and I are alone on watch late at night I get a funny feeling in my bandit parts. I think I just heard the falling spikeball trap go off. We didn't invite anyone over today but I hope it's someone friendly. Being a bandit is pretty great.
Wie im letzten Artikel versprochen, stelle ich The Bloom vor. Das ist ein Modul für Liminal Horror.
Hat das außer mir sonst noch jemand gespielt? Würde mich interessieren, ob mein Eindruck (und meine Begeisterung) von anderen geteilt wird.
https://rollenspielblog.net/rollenspiel/rezension/the-bloom-liminal-horror/
The first video for our campaign set on the desert continent of Kemet on my homebrew world of Altherra is now out, a new party of heroes take shelter from an unexpected sandstorm in a crumbling, buried stone building:
https://reddicediaries.substack.com/p/session-0-ap-video-the-cobalt-desert
- #OSR-Special in der Juzi -
Melde dich für den 5. Juli an und spiele in einer von sechs OSR-Runden!
Anmeldeformular: https://forms.gle/5V3mTZFqSfBxWbRC7
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Flyer für den PnP-Nachmittag - OSR Special
Sonntag 5. Juli 2026
14:00-19:30
Juzi, Sülzburgstraße 112/118
6 Spielrunden
Old School Essentials: Hollow Hills
mythisch Bastionland
Mothership
Mausritter
Pirate Borg
Dolmenwood (English)
TIL about Warlock!'s scifi sibling Warpstar! https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-other-osr-warpstar.html
@Rackhir like me some Megadungeon 😍 Nachdem ich 2+ Jahre in den Hallen von Arden Vul verbracht habe, weiß ich den Megadungeon als Sub-Setting so richtig zu schätzen. An Anfang war Neugier und vlt auch sowas wie eine halbbewusste #osr bucket List (einmal im Leben nach Vegas), aber dass das so viel Spaß macht, hätte ich nicht vermutet. Frage (if I may): warum 5e? Spannend, weil gerade 5e IMO (habs lange gespielt) sich so gegen Dungeoneering sträubt.
Ich habe die erste Folge des "Making Games" Podcasts von John Nohr (nicht nur Mörk Borg) und Andre Novoa (Gamesomnivorous) angehört und ich fand den ganz vielversprechend – weil es eben ums Spielemachen nicht allein aus der Spieldesign-Perspektive, sondern auch aus den gestalterischen und der Verlagsebene geht. Ach ja: Man beschränkt sich nicht auf die OSR Bubble..
Ship Names and Traits; Captain and Crew
I asked jim for some ship names for my game. He made a 7 page pdf of charts.
Absolutely worth a dollar.
“This PDF is a guide to naming and fleshing out ships for most any game, especially fantasy games. There is no wrong way to use this PDF.”
https://postworldgames.itch.io/ship-generator
#TTRPG #NSR #OSR #DND #Pirates #PostWorldGames #jimpinto #Pirates
I still like using the classic Monster & Treasure Assortment booklets to stock areas, at least as an idea-generator, but the lack of HD in them is annoying.
https://archive.org/details/tsr09047bmonsterandtreasureassortmentsets13level192ndprinting
> Berserkers — (1-4) HP: 8,5,4,2; #AT: 1; AL: 10; AC 7; ST/F 1; SA: +2 on attack vs. men, kobolds, goblins, orcs.
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AL is "Attack Level", or "To Hit AC 9". You can look it up on the monster attack table but it won't tell you any HD+.
#gamedev #osr
3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 19, exclusively on Patreon! It's a dynamic duo episode, with the party's two thieves exploring the seedier aspects of Dreg, a river-trader town. Spies, conspiracies, rumors, forgery, murder, and mule-buying are all on the evening's docket.
#OSR #TTRPG
https://www.patreon.com/c/3d6DowntheLine
@HeyeBodo @kensanata I like Tunnels & Trolls' mana-based system, with the various tricks for reducing spell costs. Using Strength for it was always weird, Wizards & Rogues were super-buff but needed to use a dagger because they'd spend it all & couldn't lift a sword. Later Wizardry stat works better.
RuneQuest spell skill rolls, & MP costs, are more like literature, but kinda annoying in play. You want magic to be more reliable.
#ttrpg #dnd #osr
#dnd related question inspired by a post of @kensanata : Across editions of DnD, including hacks, heartbreakers and DnD-derived games, what are your favorite variants, hacks of or homebrew takes on DnD’s magic system?
(For me, „Vancian“ Magic has always been part of the mechanics I like least about the game) #ttrpg #osr
@JonasJRichter allgemeiner:
- man braucht eine begeisterte Kerngruppe, um die herum neue Spieler*innen onboardet werden können.
- persönlich würde sowas nur mit #osr oder regelleichten Systemen (nicht unbedingt das Gleiche) machen. Mit einem Trad-Spiel, das auf hyperindividualisierte Personage und Backstory-Frontloading abzielt … schwierig!
- Open Table funktioniert als Kampagne, wenn das Spiel um einen bestimmten Ort kreist: 1 Megadungeon, 1 Wald, 1 Region
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@JonasJRichter okay, konkret (#Valravn online Open Table):
- Es gibt einen Pool von 15-20 aktiveren Spieler*innen (+ 20-25 Lurker*innen oder ab und zu Aktiven - was voll okay ist!)
- Kommunikation über Signalgruppe und Wiki (Spielrunden eintragen, Setting-Infos)
- SL (wir haben mehrere) stellen nach Gusto Runden ein, dauern zumeist 2-3 std
- Alle (inkl. SL) können kurzfristig absagen. Kein Peer-pressure
- System: #Shadowdark und andere #osr spiele
- Downtime activies: im Chat 1/3
@Rackhir that was my impression 🙂 The kids really leaned into the combat-as-war-aspect of #osr gaming by preparing a shitload of traps in front of the dungeon and taunted the monster to come out instead of setting out to explore the cave complex. somehow, playing with kids often ends up with them committing atrocities only to switch to „awwww“ 😍-mode when they find out, the troll kept a cat. Quote: „Well, NOW I feel a bit sorry for him.“
Erste Runde #CairnRPG @yochaigal mit der Übersetzung von Linus hat viel Spaß gemacht! 🎲📝
https://linuz.itch.io/cairn-2e-spielhandbuch/devlog/1495181/v02-fassung-fr-lektorat
#pnpde #ttrpg #osr #nsr #cairn2e
