D&D General Do You D&D OSR?

Aldarc · Tuesday at 5:16 PM

While I admire OSR rule sets like OSE/Dolmenwood, I often find myself a bit more drawn to "OSR in spirit" games that also modernize the game without feeling a need to be mostly compatible with older editions of D&D.

So if I want OSR, I mostly do OSR-adjacent or NuSR:

Odd-like Games: Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Runecairn, etc.
Black Hack: also Black Sword Hack
Index Card RPG
Worlds/Stars Without Number
Dragonbane

overgeeked · Tuesday at 6:57 PM

Aldarc said:
While I admire OSR rule sets like OSE/Dolmenwood, I often find myself a bit more drawn to "OSR in spirit" games that also modernize the game without feeling a need to be mostly compatible with older editions of D&D.

So if I want OSR, I mostly do OSR-adjacent or NuSR:

Odd-like Games: Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Runecairn, etc.

Black Hack: also Black Sword Hack

Index Card RPG

Worlds/Stars Without Number

Dragonbane

All fantastic games.

Reynard · Tuesday at 7:00 PM

Aldarc said:
While I admire OSR rule sets like OSE/Dolmenwood, I often find myself a bit more drawn to "OSR in spirit" games that also modernize the game without feeling a need to be mostly compatible with older editions of D&D.

So if I want OSR, I mostly do OSR-adjacent or NuSR:

Odd-like Games: Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Runecairn, etc.

Black Hack: also Black Sword Hack

Index Card RPG

Worlds/Stars Without Number

Dragonbane

overgeeked said:
All fantastic games.

I keep meaning to order the hardcopy of Worlds Without Number.

Aldarc · Tuesday at 8:02 PM

Reynard said:
I keep meaning to order the hardcopy of Worlds Without Number.

I also recommend getting the Atlas of the Latter Earth. It includes new player options like its version of the Warlock and Bard as well as low-magic options such as the Wise and alchemy rules.

Remathilis · Tuesday at 8:50 PM

I have played Basic (BECMI/RC) 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e.
I also played Basic Fantasy and PF1 during the wilderness years of 4e once we decided we didn't like it.

I would be open to OSR style games that mix a connection of OS simplicity with modern updates (upwards AC, etc). BFRPG felt like Basic D&D with modern revisions. But my group prefers a bit more crunch and 5e so far has been the right mix of easy to run and crunchy.

Aldarc · Tuesday at 8:57 PM

Remathilis said:
I would be open to OSR style games that mix a connection of OS simplicity with modern updates (upwards AC, etc). BFRPG felt like Basic D&D with modern revisions. But my group prefers a bit more crunch and 5e so far has been the right mix of easy to run and crunchy.

Have you looked into Worlds Without Number? It is a three class + hybrid class system, but it also features essentially skills, feats, and optional subclass/alternate class options.

Incenjucar · Wednesday at 1:00 AM

2E -> 3(.5)E -> 4E -> No RPGs -> PF2ER

Older Beholder · Wednesday at 5:17 AM

I started with 2E, played some 3E. These days it's 5E, but recently someone in our group wanted to run Dolmenwood using OSE. We played a couple of adventures before deciding it's not the game for us, so we're planning to convert the campaign to 5E.

Malmuria · Thursday at 3:38 AM

Started with Black Box Basic and Rules Cyclopedia then 2e. I got back into the hobby around 2013 with 3.5 and then 5e, and played a good bit of 5 over years, but felt something was missing. Returned to dungeon crawling with The Black Hack and Mork Borg and then all the rest of the OSR. My favorite OSR game is Mausritter. Excited to play in Dolmenwood this fall...I mean winter (sigh, kickstarter delay...)

Micah Sweet · Thursday at 4:18 AM

I played BECMI, 1e and 2e extensively when they were current, and for quite a while beyond. Right now, in addition to my Level Up games and my WotC 5e game with the kids, I am deeply interested in DCC, WWN & SWN, ACKS, and Shadowdark. Curious about OSE as well.

D&D General Do You D&D OSR?

Do You D&D OSR?

I played TSR D&D when it was current and now I play OSR games exclusively or nearly exclusively.

I played TSR D&D when it was current and now play OSR games along with WotC D&D.

I played TSR D&D when it was current and DO NOT now play OSR games or WotC D&D.

I played TSR D&D when it was current and DO NOT now play OSR games but DO play WotC D&D.

I did not play TSR D&D when it was current; now I play OSR games exclusively or nearly exclusively.

I did not play TSR D&D when it was current and now play OSR games along with WotC D&D.

I did not play TSR D&D when it was current and DO NOT now play OSR games or WotC D&D.

I did not play TSR D&D when it was current and DO NOT now play OSR games but DO play WotC D&D.

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