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A Comparative Exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Quarrel & Fable
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In this series of blogs we're exploring the various OSR RPG systems in the community and how they compare to one another and the original D&D rules. This week we're looking at Quarrel & Fable by Sean F Smith. (@seanFsmith) Quarrel & Fable by Sean F Smith is a Maze Rats hack intended to capture the feel of the Fighting Fantasy and choose your own adventure books much in the same way that Troika does. It’s lightweight at a mere dozen pages or so and uses a similar core 2d6 system to Maze Rats where you’re attempting to score 9 or higher on 2d6....
A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Maze Rats
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A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game
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A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - The Mecha Hack
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The Mecha Hack by Absolute Tabletop is a roleplaying game of titanic warmachines with The Black Hack.
As a system it demonstrates how you can take the core chassis (excuse the pun) of an OSR game ostensibly made for fantasy and port it to a wildly different genre with excellent results. In much the same way as Mothership did for Sci-Fi Horror.