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Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: Free Form OSR Spellcasting - Based on the Stara Szkola Rules Read more about this resource...

I've just finished a beta version of some free form OSR magic rules for Stara Szkola and I want to playtest them some. I'm working up a one shot scenario now and I'd like to run it several times to see how both Stara Szkola rules and my new magic rules function in the wild. Ideally this will be...

I've gotten as far as a possibly useful beta in my quest for free form OSR spellcasting. This is done specifically for Stara Szkola and uses the d20 die pool system from there, but I think it could be used in most OSR games with minimal faffing. I'd love any feedback anyone has about it.

So I'm working up a set of journey and exploration rules for Shadowdark. I'd love to send a copy to anyone who's actually playing the game if they'd be willing to give them a test spin and tell me what they think. I'm probably half done at the time of this post and I'd also be willing to chat...

I need someone with better math chops that me to double check something for me. Mothership uses advantage as roll an additional set of % dice and choose the best pair. So that's two sets of d% in a roll under environment with targets between 1 and 100. My back of napkin math for that system...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: Ranger Class for Shadowdark - A new class for Shadowdark Read more about this resource...

So as part of a little project I'm working on I'm thinking about magic somewhat differently than the OSR standard (so old school D&D, evocation etc). I'd like to see if I can set a range of statements that show the intent of the magic, or what it is designed/capable of. This is in service of a...

Now that we have an in-house Zine, issues concerning licenses and whatnot are all of a sudden more pressing. I thought it might be helpful to compile a list of systems and licenses, especially those that are CC rather than OGL/ORC or some other 3PL to help us all navigate the murky waters of...

It is the Moot the 4th, in the first week of Symswald, the 4th month of the year. It has been a bitter winter but things are finally starting to warm up and the town and countryside are alive with the tinkle of snowmelt. Prigwort is emerging from its winter slumber and there is a sense of...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: Dolmenwood Player Map - It's a map! Of Dolmenwood!! Read more about this resource...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: Dolmenwood Calendar - It's a calendar! Read more about this resource...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: The Forbidden Stairs - YZE Mashup Mayhem Read more about this resource...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: Dolmenwood: Prigwort Gazetteer - A Player's Guide to Prigwort Read more about this resource...

Just taking a temperature check for interest here. Once my other PbP is up and running (so January sometime) I'm thinking of running a Bookhounds campaign PbP here on the Pub. Bookhounds is a Trail of Cthulhu variant that focuses more specifically on Mythos books, their aqcuisition, and the...

Fenris-77 submitted a new resource: The Alexandrian on Game Strucrure - A Collection of 15 Articles Read more about this resource...

Just checking to see if I'm the only karaoke whore here. If there are more this is the place to chat.

Just a quick check in to see if anyone is interested in some Mythos letter writing PbP goodness. I'm not even sure what it would look like precisely, but it seems tailor made for PbP in some regards. Summoning @TristramEvans since I know he mentioned the game recently.

So I fucking hate lore skills in most RPGs. I'm playing some expert level dude in some area of esoterica and I have to roll the dice and play mother may I with the GM every time I want information about the game world. Blargh. From a design standpoint there's another issue. Knowledge skills...

Hello Pubbers, Pubettes, and Pubberites, I'm in the middle of designing and old school open world hex crawl and I thought that sounded like as good a reason as any to start a thread to collect our wisdom about the construction, population, and running of old school sandbox hexcrawls. My current...

Over the last couple of days I've been thinking about the usefulness for game design and RPG theory in treating RPG rules heuristically. Here's a common and useful definition of heuristic for people for whom the word isn't an everyday sort of word: : involving or serving as an aid to learning...