VTT Games are High-Prep Games

Judged by my reading of the OSR blogosphere, it seems that online play via Google Hangouts alone without virtual table top software (like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds) is quite popular with OSR players. This might be for a… Read More

Better Maps by Better People

In my last post I mentioned that you can already find a lot of maps to run B1-9 In Search of Adventure. Some of these, by more talented artists than I, are available commercially through OneBookShelf (affiliate links… Read More

In Search of Adventure

The combination module B1-9 In Search of Adventure (that’s an affiliate link, giving me a commission on any sales) is kind of like a Pathfinder Adventure Path for Basic D&D. I can actually hear OSR people wince as they read that,… Read More

OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire

Zak S posted a fun questionnaire on his blog: http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2018/10/osr-guide-for-perplexed-questionnaire.html 1. One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me: My chosen blog entry is not game mechanic or even directly… Read More

Vale Greg Stafford

I was originally planning on following up my last post about my campaigns with some details about my Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaign and the resources I used for that. Before I got started on that though,… Read More

What I’m Running

I’m presently running two regular campaigns: Lamentations of the Flame Princess – I am running a campaign set during a weird fantasy version of the English Civil War, built out of the excellent but often underrated/overlooked England Upturn’d… Read More

Black Box Basic Set

I have been playing a lot of old school roleplaying games in recent years, both original TSR versions of D&D, and a number of retroclones/modern OSR games. The version of D&D which introduced me to the hobby was… Read More