Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97266813Sorry, should've mentioned I've read those too. I feel like after 2-3 sessions, I'd be getting the feel for it, but it feels more alien to me on session 1 than not, and if I were actually gonna run this with some friends, even preparing them for all the 'differences' from what they're used to and getting them on board conceptually, it'd really throw a wrench in if I was actually running it with that bad of a feel.That's why I'm really interested in just seeing some play examples.
>>97266862I've looked. There really isn't anything that shows you the process from behind the screen. Bandit's Keep on YouTube is probably your best shot.However I would advise just writing out in your own way a flowchart or procedure notes after reading the Moldvay Basic rules. Strictly following the procedure should be all you need as an experienced DM to find yourself playing in the OSR style. My own procedure notes in picrel may be of use, at least as an illustrative tool of what I'm talking about. Start the game as close to dungeon crawling as possible when you begin play.
>>97266427>Old School Essentialsit's good as reference but you should read b/x first since it has actual advice, explanations and examples on how play looks like.
>>97266862You're overthinking this. Just play. You'll make mistakes initially, and you'll improve with time. No big deal.Also, for decades kids have learnt to play D&D without watching videos on YouTube. You really don't need them.
>>97266962I dont concur with this advice entirely. While its true that Burger King has some good videos, he has a lot and its very hard to tell them apart at a glance. You're better off downloading subtitles off Daddy Rolled a 1 and having an AI summarize them for you (given the two hour video runtime). Focused mostly on B/X, mostly surface level, with more context, history, comparison to LBB/OD&D/AD&D it seems to me the better deal, if it must be a YouTuber.
Dubs and above turn into canon.
>>97270107Bigfoot is actually a subspecies of humans that have evolved to survive harsh climates. Their fur is so dense that it makes them less agile, but offers a small resistance to bladed weapons, similar to chainmail offering resistance against shark bites.
There are scattered, highly advanced structures dot the planet that are maintained by mysterious machines belonging to a long-gone civilization that predates other civilized lifeforms by millennia. Intense study has yet to reveal the originally intended function of these vast citadels or how they were truly created, though several cities have been built around them as the durability of their construction or just general location often proves very useful for defense.
The South is essentially what would have happened had Justinian's Empire succeeded. There's a strong united Church, a powerful Emperor backed up by military governors and a complex bureaucracy. The Church plays second fiddle to the whims of the Emperor and the senate. The league comprises five major powers: >The Second Imperium: Greek in appearance and character. The big dogs.>The Kingdom (can't figure out a name): Englishmen aesthetically, vaguely German in appearance. Saxonish.>Orange Republic: Dutchmen. They're the 'rogue traders' of the setting. >A Viking kingdom. They've recently converted and want to prove their devotion... BY KILLING HEATHENS! And many minor powers including:>Some fucked up Calvinist group.>Mafiosi.>Closeted gay monks.>Rogue Gnomish bankers.>>9726361100s are dubs?
>>97262200So this is...>>97263611Canon. Man, the implications are going places. >The Ulama are a judicial body in the Muslim world. >Slave trade.>The alternative mounts are canon! Hooray!>Crusading shenanigans. The Crusades are currently ongoing. Yakub will be pleased.
>>97270116Alexander isn't Alexander. He's actually just a fucked-up meat puppet reanimated by Yakub after Earth destroyed itself in a self-inflicted nuclear war. Alexander will pave the way to a great empire, a path of bodies drenched in the blood of innocents, a road leading to hubris and misery.
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97269958I'm gonna go out on a limb & say it might be Mark Hall? He's a freelancer writer & from what I remember of him on the giantitp forums he would definitely write a disclaimer like that.
>>97269921>>97269917Those are cool & of course they must be proprietary tech! (Also, If they have telekinesis how have they not cornered the sex market?) My biggest grumble is how all the cool shit is exclusive. Thank you very very much for sharing this stuff. If I can ask, are there any good spells or armor in the book?
>>97269958>>97269991Written by Mark Oberle>>97270003Honestly not really, ill snap a few extra pictures sometime, im sleepy
>>97227092Here is the rest of the DBees. This batch was super scuffed but I got the Harune eyes, which I think is a good thing. Thanks to the anon who posted that Staphra pdf god knows how long ago. I had to dig that up....How many DBees are basically green people or lizard people?
>>97269646Yeah, that is pretty damn cringe. It reminds me of Washington cities who had to put BLM signs on their windows to hope to avoid antifa smashing their stores or homes. I see see those signs up and I still think they are living in fear.I think it's pretty pathetic. Both in that the threat of these things needing to be put in ttrpgs turned out to be toothless threats and that how these writers rolled over for the softest representation of terrorism.
Thread #007 Countess EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97260097
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>>97270151someone made a huge jjk cyoa earlier but I didn't save it
>>97270163I never save shonen cyoas either.
Valakut editionPrevious: >>97129473>News & RemindersWorld Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From November 18, 2025–January 19, 2026 Golden Packs will temporary contain cards differently than before due to "various pieces of internal nonsense"https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-december-15-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQHave you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
>>97268943stax is 3x better on paper because your stax effects apply to 2 additional players
^bots
*Summons a 9/9 green creature*What will you do now, fags?
>>97270075dies to doom blade
>>97270139That's it FUCK THIS SHITTY GAME
Doombull Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270001There are also old Wargames Factory sculpts sold by Warlord Games.Per dollar I think Wargames Atlantic is the cheapest.Real niggas use something like THESE https://www.skullncrown.com/collections/triumph-of-death
>>97270112It is a War of the Roses army, not HYW, and I have never posted my WOTR army or my wife in /hwg/. If you're going to be a fan at least get the lore correct.
>>97270124These look amazing.>>97270128>PerryfagBlablabla I don't care, back to the black pit with you.
>>97264238I don't care about multicultural, if there were any human city anywhere in the setting where you could pander to the multicultists it's Marienburg. The issue I have is that's the kind of language they use right before they retcon the city to be 200km wide with a population like modern day London or some shit, because if a setting has dragons in it then everything has to be HUEG right? It stinks of the Blackfire Pass thing again. Hey hopefully I'm just getting reflexively mad about nothing, but I'm just tired boss.
>>97268352No there isn't. The game is the game. Painting is painting. Converting is converting. Fluff writing is writing fluff. THE HOBBY is all of those things. You can prefer some over others, but if you don't *do* all of them you're not a hobbyist and, frankly, you should be raped to death by dogs.
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>>972693501girl is the tag boorus like rule34 use for generic solo images featuring 1 female subject, usually not doing anything terribly interesting.which is why you must make '2girls' instead.
>>97270023Ah, so it's some kind of porn tag, thank you, I did not know that, I get it now. I wish these whiners would understand not everything is for porn. I feel like they don't appreciate that some of us are just experimenting with the medium, & not just gripping our dicks
you make an excellent argument but just to be clear, this technology IS for porn and you SHOULD be gripping your dick.
>>97270051I thought I was being pretty respectful but okay.
Why were so many of the "OG" game designers insufferable faggots? It seems like the vast majority of game designers from the 70s and 80s were self-obsessed dickheads who openly hated and looked down on their customer base. There were obviously exceptions, and some like Gygax would go on to regret and apologize for it, but still, what made so many "professionals" back then such fags?Pic related: WFRP author James Wallis's response to a letter criticizing how railroaded The Enemy Within campaign was.
>>97267810>it's not a creative exerciseWhat a silly thing to say.
>>97266250I did exactly that thing because I didn't have anything of interest to say about the topic, and I like the questionsNone of the arguements present here were very interesting, and I see no reason not to post the 7 questionsUsing a thread filled with inane nonsense to engage in amusing nonsense shouldn't be a problem?
>>97267078Honestly also clicked out of pure boredom. I scrolled the thread not caring as random idiots shouted at each other. That question is the most "engaging" thing ITT.
D&D grew out of the wargaming scene. A lot of games from that era featured options for long running campaigns with primitive RPG mechanics while still remaining inherently adversarial. Like e.g. Circus Maximus was a racing game that allowed players to carry their chariot teams over from race to race while investing xp to improve their drivers, chariots and horses. Players were strongly encouraged to do things like wreck opposing chariots and run over one another's drivers to reset their opponents' progress. That was the gaming ecosystem that produced the first generation of dungeon masters. They simply took that mindset and carried it over to D&D and other RPGs.
>>97267969>it's a surveyyou're accusing them of content scraping, stop deflecting dumbass
Who was in the right?
>>97264330>entire ideology is based upon being militarily superior to everyone around them>starts war of conquest>gets conquered It's really that simple.
>>97264605In almost every civ, if you build tall and build your economy aggressively enough you can out science and out military everyone else with the sheer weight of the almighty dollar (energy credit).Morgan is no different.But he's weak to early aggression, as are almost every faction that is focused on this.
>>97221448Lal, Miriam, Roze & Domai.Cyborg is neutral I guess.The pirate is evil.The rest are degrees of abominable evil.
>>97267364I find my drone population outstripping my bases ability to provide for them about midgame.
>>97221448Life is about living not worrying about ideology.
Shit GM Thread, because while you players are awful, there are some really shit GMs out there too.>GM advertises game as a destroyed world by demons and whatever and people trying to live through or retake the world>sounds good, throw my application in and get in>trying to make a character from a destroyed noble house destroyed from said demons>no info or lore or anything so just make one background that can fit in>ask GM if it's okay and if I can fill it in with finer details>he just says nah you're good>is there a map?>he just gives me some random borders map that looks like it was generated from some website>yeah choose a region where your noble house was from I'm still working on the details>his username is some pretentious TheLoreMaster btw>whatever as long as he can provide a good story as the game goes on>me and other players make our characters>he then tells us to create a shared backstoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>okay, fine, since I'm playing a Swashbuckler Rogue I say I run to a destroyed house and ready my bow at the way back >cleric says she takes the front with warhammer and is acting as the vanguard>I say I position myself 30 feet from Cleric>orcs come out clutching eyes>but one big orc comes out angry>GM says he tosses a javelin at my character despite the Cleric fight there shouting challenges>wat>"it's a 16 that's a hit right?">well, I said I was 30 feet behind Cleric is that disadvantage>no this is special berserker that cancels out the disadvantage>yeah okay whatever I get hit>fight goes on and shaman from church casting spells>killed the berserker but cleric fighting two orcs>I say I jump down to the other side of the battlefield, hide, and start sneaking to circle the shaman, wanting to end my turn behind the cover of a wallComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm sure your next online 5e game will be better. :^)
>>97269238Yeah I didn't read any of that but I bet you're probably a retard
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How much money has your jumper stolen using fake daycares?
>>97269926None. Running a fake daycare is too expensive, especially since they can just set up a completely legitimate laundromat for free money
>>97269926I am sorry Anon, my jumper shat in your pants and stole your waifu while you were busy political shit posting.
>>97269993Why do you think it's political?
>>97269997Most random shit like that is just someone reframing current events as a question about jumpchain.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like Santa's Magic Sack!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Does any Anon have Devin Night tokens for the sharing? Or any VTT tokens would be great. Many thanks.
>>97269597Thank you
Does any Anon happen to have the Shard RPG books?
>>97266764>>97267114Try actually looking in Da Archive.rb /cymbergaj
>>97269998g0f1le /d/hZTddL
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>>97269352>there's a PERFECT domain for an NPC in the adventure, but I can't use it or I'll get suedIs that how it works?The end of the Slumbering Tsar has a few references in their legal appendix to 3rd party material and stuff that adventure paths for PF1. I thought it was allowed if you place a reference to the original.
>>97269400I'm pretty sure you cannot even reference non-core material. You can't even say "they have this domain, check out page XXX of Spell Compendium" or even use monsters from the monster manual.
Are there any good illustrations or descriptions on the type of restraints worn in the Hells/Avernus by mortal slaves?
>>97269066...My immediate temptation is cludging something together out of Appraise, Bluff, and Sense Motive.
>>97268332A lot of higher CR "creatures" are smarter than 99% of NPCs. Most demons, devils, a lot of aberrations and so on. >Besides, DMs who thrown NPCs with WBL at their players will be screwed when the players win and just take all that WBL for themselves from a single encounter.To be fair I have personal bias, our DM was in the "as long as it makes sense it goes" camp. So we got shit like if we got into a ambush it wouldn't be 2-3 guys, no, it would be fucking 12 orcs with bows and spears. At level 1. And if you gave NPC/monsters time to prepare? They actually would prepare for you as much as they can. Getting their magical items was a minimum requirement to survive.
...was also the first third-party one, with its first product released in 1976. Judges Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy is the only setting you'll ever need.>18 hexmaps at 5-mile hex size, with a cool thing (ruin/relic, castle/keep, town, or monster lair) every 5th or 6th hex>Covering an area the size of the Mediterranean Sea>Crazy shit all over like a Balor running a town>Huge aesthetic variety, lots of different flavor and creature types>Home of the iconic City-State of the Invincible Overlord, a wonderfully dysfunctional city>There is exactly ONE nation-state in the setting, and it's the size of Belgium. Everything else is city-states and fortified towns>Life is grimdark as shit for regular people, think Bronze Age Collapse tier. Child mortality is high as shit, only the lucky strong or brilliant make it to the ripe old age of 35.>No ancient conspiracies or secret societies puppeteering from the shadows--geopolitics are very primitive>Tech is schizophrenic, with some towns having just invented the wheel to and some cities having discovered calculus >But despite all that, you can make a real difference with your friends! Kill the asshole Overlord and see if you can do a better job.WoHF is written for old-school D&D but easily adaptable to other editions. Necromancer Games updated the content to 3.5 in splendid style with their releases of it.What are you waiting for? Pirate a copy right now! >REALLY OLD-SCHOOL & NECROMANCER RE-RELEASEComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97259421I know all the old JG material is also in the archive for OSR content. Highly recommend it!
>>97255555>zamn this looks pretty cool>look inside>kitchen sink meditterranean againosr shit keeps fooling me
>>97261711It's THE BEST kitchen sink
>>97261711i dislike a lot of the goofy shit going on in the actual game world they wrote, but all the tools for generating a campaign sandbox and adventure sites are still 10/10, have yet to be surpassed.
>>97255555Based. Thanks for posting.
