For Coin & Blood is a nice little OSR RPG about the less savoury members of fantasy society. Thieves, assassin’s mercenaries and others make up the membership of your table’s urban gang. It’s built on the basis of Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox, and For Coin & Blood adds many of it’s own elements to the […]
One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me: Chris McDowall’s blog is great in general but this post in particular, A Player’s Handbook for the OSR nails exactly what I love most about the OSR play style. A Player’s handbook at Bastionland My favorite […]
It’s been about three years since I decided to start running RPGs again. As with many gamers, I stopped when I had kids, and then ten years later I realised how much I missed them. But a lot had changed while I had been away. All the proto-storygames had grown into Fate Core, a landslide […]
I’ve tried to cover all the major facets of the OSR by discussing the Basic level games, the settings and the Swords & Wizardry games, but there are plenty of other OSR books which don’t fit into those categories. Today I’m going to look at some of the most interesting of these oddities. Wolf Packs […]
(Part 1, Part 2) I was going to write about the various Swords & Wizardry games today but then I had a better idea. Before I burn away all the goodwill my OSR introduction post earned me I want to tell you all about the best bit of the OSR. OSR products are mostly small […]
When I tentatively started investigating this retro niche of our hobby I was surprised by how big it was, I had heard of Labyrinth Lord and Stars Without Number, but not the dozens of other games I soon found, all offering their own unique take on the OSR. For almost three years now I’ve been […]
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