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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.
A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC)
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In this series of blogs we're exploring the various OSR RPG systems out there and how they compare to one another and the original D&D rules. Last week we took a look at The Black Hack. This week we're exploring Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) by Goodman Games. DCC merges old school principles and aesthetics with some more modern game design ideas. It's core mechanic is similar to the 'd20 system'. You roll a d20+ stat modifiers and compare this to a set 'Difficulty Class' or DC value. If you roll equal to our over the DC value you succeed, otherwise you fail. (They missed...
A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - The Black Hack
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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 taking a look at The Black Hack 2nd Edition by David Black
The Black Hack, in a similar way to Whitehack and Swords & Wizardry, uses original D&D as a base but greatly innovates with the formula.
A comparative exploration of OSR RPG Systems - Basic Fantasy
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In this series of blogs we're exploring the various OSR RPG systems out there and how they compare to one another and the original D&D rules. This week we're taking a look at Basic Fantasy by Chris Gonnerman. Basic Fantasy was conceived around 2006 as an 'old school' retroclone harkening back to the early days of DnD...