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    OSR: what is it even

    I think this might be setting the bar a little high! Discussants here and elsewhere are mainly having fun circling their hobby. Part of that fun is the licence to mix up recollection, nostalgia, opinion and the occasional bit of analysis. I’ve only noticed one person (Peterson) whose made a...
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    Good OSR class name for combination thief/ranger?

    Sadly real world thievery so often fails to live up to D&D. We may need to fall back on neologism. The thief/ranger is a: Rafflesgorn
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    Good OSR class name for combination thief/ranger?

    Poacher Rustler Reiver Latro Guerrilla Marauder
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    Daggerheart

    Morrus says the quiet part out loud: “Where the Hope and Fear come in is in the form of a meta currency reminiscent of Modiphius' 2d20 System”.
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    OSR: what is it even

    I’d probably just slink away in shame.
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    OSR: what is it even

    I’d submit that the collapse of the Republic, the Roman Revolution, and the foundation of the Principate was a rather more significant caesura than D&D 3e. Granted, all analogies have their limitations!
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    OSR: what is it even

    Take the point, but not really. Fifteen centuries divided the Classical from the Renaissance. The OSR is akin to an Augustan poet revisiting Catullus.
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    OSR: what is it even

    I don’t disagree, but who says so? If I wanted to call my blog OSR and download the old OSR banner as the logo, which OSR police will bring me before which OSR court?
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    Top 5 Fantasy RPGs

    Well, if one can have Warhammer Quest I nominate the iPhone version: I played that for a ridiculous number of hours. Which gives me: Holmes Basic AD&D Runequest In Darkest Warrens Warhammer Quest
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    OSR: what is it even

    ”Tenkar: Even those of us ass deep in Old School D&D and it's derivatives and offspring have a special place in our hearts for other Old School RPGs. It's OK. Really. You can have more than one true love. For me, the other Old School systems that hold that special place for me are Tunnels &...
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    OSR: what is it even

    I made the same journey around the same time. My memory is that some bloggers were happy to include other rule systems under the OSR banner. Grognardia took a close interest in Traveller and T&T, and noted that RQ was merely a personal blindspot. More recently I thought “Classic Traveller: Out...
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    OSR: what is it even

    I think this in itself is an “old school” opinion. Chivalry & Sorcery had the “Place of Adventure” IIRC. DragonQuest simply stated: “Of course, conceptually most dungeons make no sense (for a variety of reasons, the most blatant being the space given for creatures to live in), but it is the...
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    Daggerheart

    I’ll read @Fenris-77 ‘s read through with interest. But based on no research whatsoever apart from this thread - I detect the odor of 2d20.
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    [Mythras] Book of Schemes Now Available

    Apologies, my brain had clocked the River Treve running into the Southern Sea rather than off the map. The Book of Schemes is a fine piece of work wherever one chooses to place Guelden.
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    Sourcebooks vs Adventures

    Spot on. Like a good R.E. Howard story all the culture, architecture, characters, equipment, geography, politics, etc. should be embedded in adventures. Only J.R.R. Tolkien, God and scholars studying the real world (not necessarily in that order) should create sourcebooks.
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