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A Comparative Exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Labyrinth Lord
A Comparative Exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Labyrinth Lord
Labyrinth Lord by Goblinoid Games was one of the earliest old school D&D retro clones, released on 2007. Early retroclones such as Labyrinth Lord birthed out of a realisation that the Open Gaming License set out... Read more...
A Comparative Exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Old School Essentials
A Comparative Exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Old School Essentials
This blog follows our previous discussion of some tenents of 'old school' RPG play. We are now going to explore the various 'OSR' systems on the tabletop RPG market. To begin we're taking... Read more...
Old School DnD Dice, Pencil and Paper
An Exploration of Old School Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design Principles
This is the introduction to a series of articles that will comparatively explore the slew of tabletop roleplaying games that have spawned from old school gaming movement. This is often... Read more...
A comparative history of Dungeons and Dragons - BECMI 1983
A comparative history of Dungeons and Dragons - BECMI 1983
  In this series of articles we'll  be exploring the differences and similarities between every edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In the last article we looked at Basic & Expert D&D.... Read more...
B/X D&D Cover Art
A comparative history of Dungeons and Dragons - Basic and Expert (B/X) D&D - 1981
In this series of articles we'll  be exploring the differences and similarities between every edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In the last article we looked at Holmes Basic.  In this article... Read more...
Holmes Basic Cover
A comparative history of Dungeons & Dragons - Holmes Basic D&D - 1977
In this series of articles we'll  be exploring the differences and similarities between every edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In our last article we looked at 0E D&D. In this article... Read more...
0E D&D Cover
A comparative history of Dungeons and Dragons – 0E D&D
In this first article we’ll be looking at 0E D&D the game that started it all. 0E Dungeons & Dragons  – 1974 ‘0E’ Dungeons & Dragons refers to the original... Read more...
AD&D Cover Spread
A comparative history of Dungeons & Dragons - AD&D - 1977
In this series of articles we'll  be exploring the differences and similarities between every edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In the last article we looked at BECMI D&D which you can... Read more...