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D&D 4E/Essentials – Rumors of War

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Gaming Against The Grain. Rumors of War (2008). Vecna’s Fifth (2015). Fall of the Forest. King of the Dwarves. The Battle of Bramblewood. Loosing of the Beast. Fall of the Forest. To Catch A Goat. Five Pages, Thirty Stat Blocks. After running 5p30s (below) for the better part of a year, I realized monsters couldn’t pull their weight past the Heroic tier. I re-calibrated the dice so basic attacks would deal one-third of an average PC’s hit points in damage. Five Pages, Thirty Stat Blocks. We picked up a f...

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Daily OSR fix: Repost: Heroic achievements

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Sunday, 4 May 2014. Today's post is a repost since I have a pretty busy schedule lined up today. What follows is an extremely simple system for "stunts" in OSR games. This is very similar to the "heroic abilities" system I have previously presented here and the two can be used together or individually. Any time a character uses a class related ability, he may attempt to be heroic. This succeeds on a 1 in 6 chance. Warrior types (and based on D...

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Stories – Rumors of War

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Gaming Against The Grain. Rumors of War (2008). Vecna’s Fifth (2015). Fall of the Forest. King of the Dwarves. The Battle of Bramblewood. Loosing of the Beast. Fall of the Forest. To Catch A Goat. I like to write, and have written stories fairly consistently since around the time I was eight or nine years old. I attempted my first fantasy novel (unpublished) when I was about ten, and I developed it on and off for about seven years before abandoning it. Yet and it didn’t stop me from trying to write.

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Daily OSR fix: May 2013

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Tuesday, 28 May 2013. It's been pretty quiet here, since I've been neckdeep in trying to write Metal Rogue. A game revolving around random tables is hard work, as it turns out. Here's an excerpt that is totally useful in any OSR game though. Roll up 4-6 events to establish a timeline. The events are pretty broad, and very open to interpretation. 5-8 Age of prosperity. 41-44 Gods among men. 45-48 Realignment of land mass. 89-92 Rifts in reality.

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Daily OSR fix: Are OSR gamers conservative?

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Saturday, 3 May 2014. Are OSR gamers conservative? There's a general feeling in some of the larger RPG community that OSR and retro D&D gamers are "conservatives", stuck in the past. (And I should clarify that I don't mean conservative in a political sense, I've met OSR gamers that are conservatives, libertarians, progressives, anarchists and socialists). Both the "EXTREME OSR" post and the Spell Stealer class did very well in that regard.

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Daily OSR fix: EXTREME OSR

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Thursday, 1 May 2014. Being a teenager in the 90's, I remember when everything was EXTREME. So with that in mind, here's a few somewhat light hearted suggestions for making your OSR and retro D&D games EXTREME. Use with caution (or with characters that aren't meant for a long, serious campaign). If the new target is also killed, another attack is triggered. Any character scoring a natural 20 on an attack roll or saving throw, or a 1-5 on a thi...

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Daily OSR fix: February 2013

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Thursday, 28 February 2013. The Investigator. LL compatible class. Weapons permitted: As thief. Magical items permitted: Any permitted to thieves. There was only really one conclusion to be drawn, and it had been obvious all along. He reached for the scroll to write down his findings about the church of the Evening Star, and their cult activities. As per the spell once per day, increasing to twice at level 5, and three at level 10. Their skill...

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Daily OSR fix: April 2014

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OSR, classic roleplaying and old school Dungeons and Dragons. Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Rolling in the open or behind the screen? Conventional wisdom in roleplaying games is that the GM should always roll behind the screen. This way you can conceal information from the players about how easy or hard a time the enemy is having at hitting them and so forth. It also goes that by concealing the rolls, you can fudge them easier if you need. I find that it creates far more tension in the game as they'll watch ...