Voros
Doomed Investigator
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I prefer content and reviews of new OSR material to internet drama, repetitive OSR 'think pieces' and similar pontificating. My tastes definitely run towards the stranger end of OSR material as well. Please add more!
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Not a lot of updates these days but good quality posts (mostly reviews and minis these days) when he does do it.
I'll See it When I Believe It - Michael Prescott's awesome blog of mini-adventure sites with neat maps and art, his mecha game hack and more. Easily my favourite for gameable material.
Monsters and Manuals - The blog of the creator of Yoon-Suin. 'nuff said.
Beyond Fomalhaut - Melan's blog of excellent reviews and even better free adventures for download. Been heavy on the actual play reports but whenever he posts some gameable content or review it is always worth a read.
Elfmaids and Octopi - Loads of gameable content. Definitely wacky (note his hack's accronym is EMO) and far out as the kids these days tend to like their D&D.
Questing Beast - The only watchable reviewer of OSR material on Youtube, he also designed the neat little OSR ruleset Maze Rats and interviews a 5th grade DM.
Tenfootpole - Bryce Lynch is crazy enough to do the tiresome but important work of sorting through the mountains of OSR material on OBS and finding the gems. He also goes through every issue of Dungeon. I find him a bit too OSR dogmatic at times, although we share a love of folk-tale toned adventures, but as usual with any good reviewer it is best to get a sense of their tastes and biases and read with them in mind. Introduced me to the fascinating outsider adventure design of Unbalanced Dice Games.
On Wings of Ink - So many good art blogs out there, I'm picking Gennifer Bone's as her stuff appeals to both the D&D and CoC sides of me.
Thomas Novell has been quietly but consistently doing fine work including the unique John Silence 'zine/mini-supplement.
Playing with Electrons to Make Stories - Definitely on the wildly imaginative, very strange/Ashton Smith side of OSR fantasy, if he ever releases a book of this stuff he should be as recognized as Jacob Hurst of Hot Springs Island.
Age of Dusk - Sometimes drawn into internet drama due to his loose association with the infamous but derelict YDIS blog (they posted his extensive review of Pundit's Arrows of Indra, including an accusation of plagiarism of Barker's Tekumel magic system) and his tendency to curse, but the Prince of Nothing's reviews are actually pretty thoughtful and thorough.
Basic Red - Very loose (perhaps sloppy?) and crazy ideas for OSR games. I thought he had quit the blog due to internet drama and life but it looks like he may have returned to posting regularly again.
False Machine - Patrick Stuart's (Veins of the Earth, Deep Carbon Observatory) eccentric blog which has loads of great and bizarre material about his take on a world of faerie. Due to internet drama he took a break and only posted for a while about his reading and thoughts of each canto of Spenser's The Fairie Queen (lol) but seems to be back to posting content once again.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Not a lot of updates these days but good quality posts (mostly reviews and minis these days) when he does do it.
I'll See it When I Believe It - Michael Prescott's awesome blog of mini-adventure sites with neat maps and art, his mecha game hack and more. Easily my favourite for gameable material.
Monsters and Manuals - The blog of the creator of Yoon-Suin. 'nuff said.
Beyond Fomalhaut - Melan's blog of excellent reviews and even better free adventures for download. Been heavy on the actual play reports but whenever he posts some gameable content or review it is always worth a read.
Elfmaids and Octopi - Loads of gameable content. Definitely wacky (note his hack's accronym is EMO) and far out as the kids these days tend to like their D&D.
Questing Beast - The only watchable reviewer of OSR material on Youtube, he also designed the neat little OSR ruleset Maze Rats and interviews a 5th grade DM.
Tenfootpole - Bryce Lynch is crazy enough to do the tiresome but important work of sorting through the mountains of OSR material on OBS and finding the gems. He also goes through every issue of Dungeon. I find him a bit too OSR dogmatic at times, although we share a love of folk-tale toned adventures, but as usual with any good reviewer it is best to get a sense of their tastes and biases and read with them in mind. Introduced me to the fascinating outsider adventure design of Unbalanced Dice Games.
On Wings of Ink - So many good art blogs out there, I'm picking Gennifer Bone's as her stuff appeals to both the D&D and CoC sides of me.
Thomas Novell has been quietly but consistently doing fine work including the unique John Silence 'zine/mini-supplement.
Playing with Electrons to Make Stories - Definitely on the wildly imaginative, very strange/Ashton Smith side of OSR fantasy, if he ever releases a book of this stuff he should be as recognized as Jacob Hurst of Hot Springs Island.
Age of Dusk - Sometimes drawn into internet drama due to his loose association with the infamous but derelict YDIS blog (they posted his extensive review of Pundit's Arrows of Indra, including an accusation of plagiarism of Barker's Tekumel magic system) and his tendency to curse, but the Prince of Nothing's reviews are actually pretty thoughtful and thorough.
Basic Red - Very loose (perhaps sloppy?) and crazy ideas for OSR games. I thought he had quit the blog due to internet drama and life but it looks like he may have returned to posting regularly again.
False Machine - Patrick Stuart's (Veins of the Earth, Deep Carbon Observatory) eccentric blog which has loads of great and bizarre material about his take on a world of faerie. Due to internet drama he took a break and only posted for a while about his reading and thoughts of each canto of Spenser's The Fairie Queen (lol) but seems to be back to posting content once again.
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