Like, the feel of gritty black-and-white screen-printed books. Simple and pulpy with that semi-woodcut-looking art.Cairn? Shadowdark? Who wins here on aesthetic grounds
Labyrinth Lord
bumping with aesthetics.The dark, inky aesthetic. Touches pushing back the shadow, goblins scurrying around tapping their feet on stone. Black and white
grimy zines, screen-printed blacks, negative space, medieval marginalia energy. Weird ugliness. Brooding. Battered pulp covers energy>>97176491too clear and instructional
>>97176462Broken System. It started the entire osart punk zine format all the shit you like apes badly. Its hard to find these days, which makes it even morrrre underground.
>>97176462OSR is a false god. Just play the original games. It isn't hard you just have to know how to read (a tall order for osrtards I know)
bumping with more aesthetic inspiration>>97176717great suggestion. is "osart" a term with currency or did you coin it?>>97176772I don't care about the game rules. I am here for aesthetics.
Dungeon synth sounds like trash so the no-art version of LotFP
Jesus, what a dull aesthetic
>>97177046Right? There aren't any animu waifus at all!
>>97176851Oh so nogames?
>>97176462DCC would be one of the first RPGs with that aesthetic. Pic related. If you want more "NuSR" stuff then games like Rakehell, Vaults of Vaarn, Vermis, Mork Borg, Cha'alt, Necronautilus, Ragnarock. >>97176851>I don't care about the game rules.If you're just looking for pictures and ideas then scouring the OSR blogs would be a better idea: Goblin Punch, Coins & Scrolls, Power SCore, Prismatic Wasteland, Planet Psychon, et al.
>>97176462>Cairn? Shadowdark?Neither of these are OSR games.The closest you'll get is probably some of the LotFP material.
>>97178064"NSR" games are still OSR, regardless of what those retard purists say because they want to try and gatekeep, when they're the guys everyone wants to keep out of the OSR.
>>97178074Are you saying people who like retroclones aren't OSR???
>>97178074No, I'm afraid you're mistaken. Yochai Gal himself doesn't even call Cairn OSR, so how can it be an OSR game?
>>97178187Do you call yourself a faggot?
>feeeeeel
>>97178209>no arguments>desperate shitting and reeingOkay then. NSR games are still explicitly not OSR games.
>>97178241I'm asking if you call yourself a faggot.I assume you don't, and yet...
>>97178187>kike game
>>9717646295% of getting the dungeon synth feel is GM descriptions and player involvement. You'd want rules that reward exploration and skill use. You don't want too much combat, barely any in fact but when it happens it has to be meaningful
Cairn is far from the aesthetic you're talking about, the 1st edition uses bog-standard public domain art, and the 2nd edition uses tumblr style fantasy art. The Israeli Jewish author also actively hates the style of old school D&D because he finds math annoying and says that Gygax was a racist fascist. Not "dungeon synth" at all.Shadowdark is closer to what you're saying, but the art still feels modern to me. The system is alright, it's basically a stripped down 5e with some DCC mechanics thrown in. The tone goes for a sort of pastiche of grim-darkness with some gonzo stuff. The lesbo author likes the old school style of D&D and made the system to recapture her childhood memories of playing AD&D 2e. It's decently dungeon-synth-ish.Dungeon Crawl Classics is a beautiful work of art, I sometimes just flip through it to look at the awesome illustrations, and buying any of their adventures is worth it just for the awesome art. I wouldn't call it gritty and dungeon-synth-ish, more crazy guitar riffs and weird psychedelic art on old fantasy books you'd find at an estate sale.Dragonslayer also has that cool black and white style grittiness to it, it's massive and over-priced but it is filled with cool old-school art. I'd recommend this over all the others I mentioned if you want to go with gritty Dungeon-synth-ish style.Also check out Labyrinth Lord and the previous editions of Swords and Wizardry.
>>97176851>with currency as much as you give it. I was tired and just mashed it together but it can't be the first instance of it. Lizard man diaries' stuff likely has material in it you'd like. There's an entire chunk of coffee table books where they gave up on pretending it had game mechanics and just gesture at the idea of a game that it could have been but never was. Stuff like Vermis and the biomechanical version of it.
>>97177894DCC is more gonzo and psychedelic than TRVE OZR zine. Interrelated but different vibe. There was a lot of osr stuff about mushrooms and astral planes but OP seems more towards the stuff imitating death metal and punk zines. >>97178381This is a good point though, it doesn't seem like OP knows fuck all or is just trying to generate discussion by being very inaccurate to keep post count up correcting it and arguing about editions. The OSR hype and the ttrpg boom is calming down a bit which is honestly nice. It'll cut down on the shovelware, the marketing and let some of the enthusiasts breath a bit.
