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Und nun ist die #LoFiCon leider auch schon wieder vorbei. Es ist schon irre, wie einem die linke DIY #OSR crowd ans Herz wachsen kann 🫶 Ganz lieben Dank an die Orga. Ich durfte #DungeonInc , #FrontierScum und #BestLeftBuried leiten - und bei #IntoTheOdds mitspielen. Freue mich schon auf das nächste Jahr :) Und jetzt, der #RailCrawl …
Auf dem Rückweg von der #LoFiCon - Müdigkeit mischt sich mit wohligem Afterglow: Memorable Runden, die Gastfreundschafts-Magic der Leipziger Crew. Ich konnte schöne Spielrunden erleben und wie immer blieb viel zu wenig Zeit, um mit allen zu quatschen 🥲. Ich finde, die LoFiCon leistet echt einen guten Beitrag dazu, die #osr Nische im deutschsprachigen Raum zu einem guten Ort zu machen ♥️
Until all Dungeons are empty
#pnpde
Considered by many in our community to be one of the greatest 3d6 DTL sessions of all time, Death in Frigia -- Ep 12 of our OG #Dolmenwood campaign -- is available to watch again, now with re-mastered audio! This episode features the tragic climax of the adventure Winter's Daughter.
#OSR #TTRPG
https://youtu.be/BUL1fIsPGBc
I was looking into dragon origin stories and came across this fascinating story of the dragon of Norton Fitzwarren.
The town has a dragon symbol on its welcome sign. (Image 1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Fitzwarren
When the Romans were expanding into Britain (around 40 AD), there was a massacre of Britons by the Roman General Ostorius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Ostorius_Scapula
Someone made a statue of Ostorius in the late 1800s (Image 2)
Ostorius put down uprising after uprising. The legend goes that the bones were left piled up in Norton Camp and from these a dragon grew. Over the centuries it grew larger and larger.
In medieval times, one of the Fitzwarren family defeated the dragon and went on to other adventures in Europe.
Morgen geht's los zur #LoFiCon. Ich werde zunehmend nervös, weil ich dort zum ersten Mal eine Runde auf einer CON leiten werde.. 😳 Bei der Con ist die SL Dichte enorm, ich vermute nahezu alle meine Mitspieler werden selbst welche sein.. Da haut dann mein Ich werde "Zombie Reign" leiten, eine Variante von
Nur gut, dass die LoFiCon nicht nur eine hohe SL Dichte hat sondern auch eine "Liebe Menschen Dichte" von 100%.. 😀
Das wird also sicherlich schön. 😊
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/763184638/the-dark-archives-volume-i-zombie-reign#OSRde #PnPde
Auf dem Weg zur #LoFi #osr Con. Abgeknuspert von der Woche, aber jetzt gut proviantiert mit Quarkplundergebäck. Diesmal kommen auch wieder diverse Valravniks vom #Valravn OSR Open Table ♥️ - Dann kann ich mich wieder rückversichern, dass es sich bei den Leuten, mit denen ich online spiele, nicht um eingebildete Freunde handelt.
#pnpde
On my way to #LoFiCon #osr con in Leipzig 🚂 I will probably arrive super late, but am hyped to reconnect with so many lovely people. This time I will referee only one game: #TimesThatFryMensSouls - a Hexcrawl set in late 18th century colonial North America. Looking forward to be a player in several of the other games featured at LoFiCon 26. There is such a broad range: classics, modern hacks….
Service-Hinweis:
In meinem Artikel zu den besten kostenlosen #OSR-Abenteuern für einen Onseshot ( https://rollenspielblog.net/rollenspiel/osr-abenteuer-kostenlos-oneshot/ ) schwärmte ich schon von A Sliver of Evidence.
Demnächst startet ein Kickstarter für eine erweiterte Version:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cairnpress/a-sliver-of-evidence
Ist bestimmt einen Blick wert!
The latest #BundleOfHolding is for Pirate Borg, probably the best of the Mork Borg hacks:
@HerrvonSpeck @systemmatters cool. Da erscheint auch das ins Deutsche übersetzte, überarbeitete und leicht ergänzte #OSR minicon manifesto von @HeyeBodo und mir, das wir (auf Englisch) ursprünglich im #grenzland zine no. 5 veröffentlicht haben.
Ich freu mich auf dein Abenteuer, ich habe nur gutes gehört von den Leuten die vorhin mitgespielt haben :).
Offener Spieltisch (in Präsenz):
Am 27.09. (Sonntag, 13 Uhr bis in den frühen Abend hinein) bringe ich in Mainz eine Runde #SwordsAndWizardry für 3 bis maximal 7 Spielenden an den Start. Setting: #TheHallsOfArdenVul #Megadungeon
Schreibt mit, wenn ihr mit dabei sein wollt und Bock habt, den #osr Spielstil auszuprobieren.
Großer Raum (Zentrums-/Hbf-nah ist vorhanden). Vorkenntnisse: egal. Wir nutzen das engl. Regelwerk #pnpde #RedBoxRheinMain 1/2
I think I’ll run this fort until 550 (24 more years) or collapse. Then I’ll export the map and turn it into the final mega dungeon for my campaign. Hundreds of years later and taken over by evil. Should be an interesting map.
Why is this huge cavern full of carvings and statues? The miner’s guild demanded a guildhall, and I wanted all the green stones for the roof of my farm. 🤣
#TTRPG #OutlawsOfTheNorth #Nimble #GMPrep #OSR #NSR #Megadungeon
In 2004, gamespy did an interview with Dave Arneson. D&D was born to counter rules lawyers.
GameSpy: How did you come up with the idea of getting off the surface and going through a dungeon crawl?
Arneson: Well, dungeon crawls were, I think, the easiest things to set up because all you had to do was draw a grid map and didn't have to worry about the great outdoors and setting up trees and stuff. People also couldn't go wandering off where you didn't have a map because it was solid rock.
GameSpy: Why fantasy, though? You had started out playing with real-world armies.
Arneson: Some other people in my group set up rules for modern games, or even back in the age of Napoleon. We would get in these arguments, though, about historical accuracy, the latest translation of the latest book, and what was "real." Going into a fantasy world was actually again kind of a copout from my point of view. I didn't want people always coming up with some new book saying we just had to use because it was right and the old one was wrong. This was a fantasy world, so who could come up with anything to prove that he was lying or that a monster wasn't accurately represented? [Laughs]. Now, of course, there's book on everything. It's trickier than it was in the beginning when there weren't as many (fantasy) books.
Ran a one-shot of #PirateBorg for a local game shop's RPG day. Went quite well.
The Borg system is solid, and the introductory starter set adventure "Trapped in the Tropics" is quite good. Drops the players right in the action, gives a clear goal (escape) without being railroady. Lots of places and people to interact with.
The draft of Jorune 2D (the Traveller conversion for Skyrealms of Jorune) is progressing nicely. Some great work from my pals at Seven Moons Workshop. It’s a joy to be working in a team on something.
#ttrpg #traveller #osr
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#OSR #TTRPG #3d6DTL
#Babarenfilme und #OSR : Natürlich würde ich gerne am Spieltisch große Kunst oder zumindest Hochglanz-Fantasy schaffen. Aber, ganz ehrlich: oftmals ist es eher 80er Jahre S&S-Trash mit schlechten Kulissen, dünnen Drehbuch und Darstellern, die versuchen, dass Ganze irgendwie ernst zu nehmen. Und wisst ihr was? Wie die Filme ist das Ergebniss meistens recht unterhaltsam. Ich mag #B-Filme :)
Fin de notre campagne estivale de #LiminalHorror. Mes courageux PJ ont braqué une boutique de déguisements pour se faire passer pour des pythagoriciens lors de leur infiltration du congélateur druidique occupé par les technopaïens afin de dérober le processeur quantique nécessaire au rituel de voyage entre les réflexions pour regagner leur dimension d'origine. Au total, en 7 séances, on aura visité 4 des 12 étages de mon #Dungeon23
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RE: https://tabletop.social/@ng76/117203751915942336
Un conjunto de aventuras para #LoDelRol y especialmente #BlackHack y #OSR que parecen ser muy interesantes:
For the recently ended Black Hack game jam, I thought I'd start posting little mini-reviews of some of the entries. Here's the first batch:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/09/02/a-bunch-of-reviews-for-black-hacks-10th-birthday-part-1/
Today, the playtest of my late medieval zombie apocalypse #hexcrawl continues. Again, I’m a player. It is a fun experience „walking“ through my own mini-setting and explore parts of it through the vision of another referee.
#LiminalHorror #osr
Excited to be a part of Arcane Con this year! We love spending time in the New England area and playing games. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #osr
The new #Grenzland #Zine (no.8) was just uploaded. I contributed a short Text (pp. 14-17) about a game I wrote, played and currently revising. It's called #Traumstein and is "a refined hybrid of the different role playing precursors that developed within the war gaming communities during the 1960s and early 1970s." Namely #Braunstein and Tony Bath' "Setting up a wargames #campaign ". Has anyone else here explored the space between #osr #ttrpg and #wargame ?
https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/grenzland/pdf/Grenzland8.pdf
Texte auf Englisch und Deutsch. Die nächste Ausgabe, Grenzland 9: Reptiles! ist für Januar 2027 geplant.
The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam is finishing up within the hour, and I just put in my entry under the wire.
I made a bestiary of evil clowns. It was a little rushed, so I will probably expand it and tidy it up later.
In Dragon #7, June of 1977, Gary Gygax wrote an article about the origins of D&D.
the medieval rules, CHAINMAIL (Gygax and Perren) were publshed in Domesday Book
I revised and expanded the rules for 1:20 and added 1:1 scale games, jousting, and fantasy. Rob Kuntz and I had acquried a large number of 40mm figures, and many of them were so heroic looking that is seemed a good idea to play some games which would reflect the action of the great swords and sorcery yarns.
When the whole appeared as CHAINMAIL, Dave began using the fantasy rules for his campaign, and he reported a number of these actions to the C&C Society by way of articles.
I thought that this usage was quite interesting, and a few months later when Dave came down to visit me we played a game of his amended CHAINMAIL fantasy campaign. Dave had taken the man-to-man and fantasy rules and modified them for his campaign. Players began as Heroes or Wizards. With sufficient success they could become Superheroes. In a similar fashion, Wizards could become more powerful. Additionally, he had added equipment for players to purchase and expanded the characters descriptions considerably -- even adding several new monsters to the the rather short CHAINMAIL line-up.
I find there is just something disingenuous about the phrasing to me.
Während auf kritischerfehlschlag.de ein Feuerwerk der Mystery abgebrannt wird, haben @FrauKnurrkater und ich ein Abenteuer für einen rpg-jam gebastelt. Lost in Sparkwood Forest kann man im Grunde mit allen Fantasy-Rollenspielen zocken, solange man mit Humor und Absurdität klarkommt.
https://sebahahn.itch.io/lost-in-sparkwood-forest
#osr #dnd #rollenspiel #ttrpg #penandpaper #abenteuer #rpg #dungeonsanddragons #CairnRPG
Nach mehr als 2 Jahre #Shadowdark (♥️) und Megadungeon, habe ich gestern Abend die Auftaktsession für eine #OSE (DnD B/X)-Kampagne an unserem #osr Open Table an den Start gebracht. Bin gespannt wie es wird. Shadowdark ist beeindruckend gestreamlined und schnurrt am Tisch, aber es macht mir auch Spaß, mal wieder so eine modulare klassische #dnd Variante (+ obligatorische Hausregeln) an den Tisch zu bringen.
Startet wer von euch gerade eine neue Kampagne oder spielt in einer neuen Kampagne?
#pnpde
Interview with David Megarry, creator of DUNGEON! boardgame.
Something I think is important to remember is David Megarry made the DUNGEON! boardgame before Gary even started writing up Dungeons & Dragons.
He already had Heroes, Elves, Wizards, Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Skeletons, Trolls, Vampires and many many other things, all wrapped up in a set of rules before Dave and David went over to Gary's house to demonstrate both DUNGEON! and the fantasy game that became D&D.
Mittagessen! Und guten Hunger dabei!! 🍽️
Es gibt Spielbericht V.4 unserer hausgemachten #DnD -Kampagne:
https://www.tanelorn.net/index.php/topic,118203.msg135361134.html#msg135361134
😋
#pnpde #osr #ttrpg #odnd
#Avalon #ZeitDerWölfe
#CairnRPG #Cairn2e
Hello #pnpde - ich bereite gerade eine neue Mini-Kampagne für unseren #osr Open Table vor und suche noch Dungeons / Abenteuerschauplätze, um sie in der Sandbox zu platzieren - gerne so unbekanntere, kleine Sachen, gern Selbstgestricktes, keinen 5e-Schlonz.
Hintergrund: Die Kampagne wird mit dem Klassiker „The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh“ (U1) beginnen, danach bau ich die Gegend um Saltmarsh weiter aus. Grundlage sonst nur die World of Greyhawk Box aus den 80s, System: #OSE (Advanced).
Looking for recommendations: small dungeons & adventures:
After running #Shadowdark for years, l‘m currently launching an #OSE mini-campaign at our open #osr table. Idea is to play through U1 (The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh) before switching to „westmarshy“ mode of play where the players can interact with adventure sites around the town of Saltmarsh which will serve as a base. Still looking for small dungeons/adventure locations to populate the surroundings of the town. Suggestions = welcome!
Excited. Tonight I’m a test player in #Hexcrawl / Sandbox adventure I wrote over the last months. I‘m won‘t referee the game, just explore the setting thorough the eyes of a player. Really looking forward and am super curious how someone else will utilize (make sense of) the sandbox.
Shoutout to @brian who helped me a lot improving the language of the manuscript. #osr #LiminalHorror #ttrpg
Glimmermark Session 58. Only two players today. They decided to forego the underground, and instead decided to check out a ruined city the group had found in the southeast. On the way there they saw a dragon passing over them, and hid in a forest that turned out to be full of red-hatted gnomes that hate dwarves.
In the city they tried to negotiate with gnolls but sounded too much like spies. In the resulting fight they captured rather than killed all of them.
@video_play zu spät für die Umfrage, aber ich spiele hauptsächlich (90%) #OSR Rollenspiele (also old school #DnD + Hacks & Weiterentwicklung und Spiele mit ähnlicher Designprinzipien) und on top 10% Storygame-Beilage, also so Sachen wie #TrophyGoldRPG #BrindlewoodBay etc.