Welcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement.>What is NSR?>NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings.>Broadly NSR games have a gm, a living world, are rules light, deadly and focus on emergent narrative, interaction and exploration.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions or drama of the games and its creators aka shadowboxing with twitter, reddit and the OSRG (frens with osrbros)>stay on topic>gamesShadowdark, into the odd, mausritter, cairn, mörk borg (and its hacks), dungeon crawl classics, mothership, knave, troika!, whitehack, blackhack, old school essentials (we know this is just a retroclone), etc. >links, resources, more games!, etc:https://pastebin.com/0W8WmbCk (BROKEN we're working on it) >previous thread:>>96999742Thread Question:Trokia adventures, have you ran any? Have you converted any to other systems?
>>97162687this thread is utterly irrelevant, as everything covered by this thread should be discussed on /osrg/
>>97164577Fuck off fishfag
>>97164577>Oh no I see a thread I don't like and go into it to be mad on purpose
>>97162687>trokia adventures There's a bunch of them but have seemed strongly character type focused when I skim them so less material for me to loot for other games. I've been keeping a copy of The Cerulean Curtain around that seems workable the next time I need a filler adventure for the evening though. I like the general tone and its got clear enough instructions I can run it in whatever system really.
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>be level 3 Union Wizard>knows exactly two spells: Create Water and Stone Shape>works for the sanitation department>literally the only reason the capital city with 500k population isn't a cholera ridden graveyard>negotiates a 400 gold/week salary because if he strikes, everyone dies of thirst in 3 days>retires at 45 with a villa in the coast>adventurers call him a wagie while sleeping in mud
>>97162687I'm not this guy >>97164577 but what's the difference between OSR and NSR? I've never played anything from either "movement."
>>97170640OSR is devoted to early D&D, and its clones. The thing is that OD&D, Basic, and AD&D are all largely the same game, as Basic and Advanced are just OD&D with different bits from the the supplements, and a few tweaks here and there. The NuSR movement takes what they like to think of as the principles behind that game, what makes it work so well, and tries to build it into new games, so you have an eclectic collection of games that don't really have a whole lot in common with each other except in theory.
>>97170640OSR is try to get back to old D&D. Dungeoncrawling, open-world stuff, less plot, less in the way of character builds, player agency, gold for XP instead of murder as the focus, more negotiation as to how to handle less common gameplay situations, and fewer hard and fast rules (but not none). Slight variations on old D&D rulesets power it all.NSR is taking the more abstract, non-systemic parts of what OSR theorycrafters came up with (e.g. player agency, open world/sandbox play) and applying it to all sorts of games and rules engines. It grew out of the OSR, but really isn't doing the same things any longer. There are tons of non-dungeoncrawler NSR games, for instance, and rules can be anything, though they tend to really focus on the lighter end. More variety, less unifying it all together: both good and bad in trying to make a community out of it all.
Anyone have a system that works really well with Reach of the Roach God/Lorn Song of the Bachelor/ the Thousand Thousand Island stuff?My go-to system doesn't really feel like a tonal fit. Have been looking at Cairn 2e, but I feel neutral about it at best.
>>97170686I did a Yoon-Suin and 1K1K islands run for a while with mixed Into the Odd and Scarlet Heroes.Basically using ItO as the character generation base for player characters as east wind trading company goons going up the river into the heart of darkness and various tables and infestation from Scarlet Heroes as go-to dm bits as needed. Didn't get to use Reach of the Roach, everyone got tpkd by froghemoths before it arrived. ItO's fast combat and overall high deadliness suited the vibe and how I like to run games.
>>97170640OSR is archeology. it is strictly about the preservation of B/X (Moldvay/Cook). the goal is to take those specific rules, clean up the layout, clarify the wording, and organize them so they are actually usable at the table, but the engine remains identical. it preserves how it actually was.NSR dumps the specific mechanics to chase the feeling people remember having, the sense of novelty, weirdness, high lethality, and player agency. it uses modern design to recreate the impact DnD had back then, rather than the literal rules. it's DnD how we imagine it was, not how it actually played.
>>97173044>OSR is archeology. it is strictly about the preservation of B/X (Moldvay/Cook). the goal is to take those specific rules, clean up the layout, clarify the wording, and organize them so they are actually usable at the table, but the engine remains identical. it preserves how it actually was.Close, but no cigar. It's as much about B/X as it is about OD&D and AD&D. (And occasionally a bit of Holmes and BECMI.)
>>97170640The trolls who ruined the /osrg/ and bump this thread are the very last people you should be asking.
>>97173285Oh no, 2etard = fishfag is sad again
>>97174176like the mechanics are dogshit, but 2nd ed has the most iconic settings in D&D history. Dark Sun? yes please, that would be a cool contribution to /nusrg/ threads. 2nd Ed, ACKS, i don't care, as long as people keep the shitflinging to an acceptable amount
>>97174356I don't have a problem with people who like 2e: by all means talk about it if you want.I was talking to ONE specific troll known as fishfag, 2etard, nightlandsfag, and multiple other nicknames, who's been trolling /tg/ for a few years. He's been trying to hijack /osrg/ specifically every couple days or so for weeks, creating literally tens of troll threads that are regularly shot down and bitching and whining about how /osrg/ and /nsrg/ are not to his liking while NEVER contributing anything constructive to any discussion. Except for three character sheets he's shared that are full of errors, showing he's never even played a single game in his life.
>>97174509>he's never even played a single game in his life.man that sucks, i kinda know that feeling. got my first rulebook (wfrp 1st ed) in middle school and hung out on irc, but didn't have anyone to play with until uni. even now i have like 7-8 systems on my shelf that i'll prob never play. good thing there's a fuckton of crpgs for AD&D though, like the gold box stuff and baldur's gate. wouldn't wish the no games misery on anyone.
>>97174645I'd have empathy for him as well were he not the most obnoxious and retarded troll on the whole of /tg/ (and he's up against some fierce opposition!)
>>97174645ntayrt You never ran it for yourself or convinced anyone in middle school to play with you?
>>97173285profoundly ichthyosexual
>>97174990looking back there wasn't anyone interested, can't really blame myself. finding people at uni felt like a cosmic coincidence. one day some guy just barged into my dorm room trying to sell me contraband weapons because he was still tripping from a cyberpunk session, kek. i have too low verbal iq/extrovertednessto run a game myself
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>>97174992Your posting style is too easily identifiable to deny your own existence, fishfag.
>>97175319>thinking the trollcow is retarded is a posting styleSo all of /tg/ is your fishfag.
fishfag backstory reveal
>>97175405lmao
