I recently learned of The Dreams of Ruin, a very ambitious high-level adventure for OSR, published in 2014.It is about combating an extradimensional threat. Okay. Cool. Do the PCs combat this extradimensional threat through good old-fashioned combat? Absolutely not. Instead, the PCs play a domain management minigame of setting up research stations across multiple worlds (with absolutely insane costs like 1 trillion gp for a top-end laboratory and 1 billion gp upkeep per research period) and managing teams of wizards who are powerful enough to cast Time Stop and True Seeing multiple times per day each.https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpress.com/2023/05/10/review-dreams-of-ruin-ll-wayward-son/Is this OSR in a nutshell?
How are they supposed to raise that much gold? Surely it's not adventuring, but I can't recall any money-printing magical cheese like in 3.5e
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>>97696423>Extradimensional threatRed Tide>Domain ManagementACKS>1 trillion GPAre you fucking mental?>Is this OSR in a nutshellOnly in the sense that a sandbox focused around the slow growth/intrusion of another reality onto the setting the players are part of could be fun. Blackwoods "The Willows" growing itself into existence by intruding on other realities is an interesting setting hook.Personally I think, giving it a look in on the review, the "Oh, no large organizations can notice it" is a cheap cop out as is the psychic immunity m'larky.You want something more open honestly, if you want to delve OSR.And that's why I'd go for Red Tide.
>>97701817Isn't 1 trillion gp chump change by higher end OSR?
>>97696423This thing was probably more fun to write by the author than to play it by anyone.
>>97705323No? Unless your DM is sticking massive treasure hoards under every rock, you'll be lucky to amass enough coin to be considered a millionaire.
