I keep seeing this myth perpetrated about OSR and the deliberate lack of encounter balancing. I take a look at the old school D&D editions from which the OSR sprung to poke a hole or two in this myth and show you how to check your encounters for balance, if you so choose. Debunking the […]
Don't make the same mistakes I made when running a hexcrawl adventure as a one-shot! Gamers On Games advice on running one-shots: Transcript On Friday’s stream, I told a little bit of a story, and I’ve told this story before, but my very truncated retelling of the story inspired a video—a short from Gamers on […]
Are hirelings and retainers OP in OSR D&D TTRPGs? Here's my take! Transcript Hirelings and retainers—I saw a question come up on Reddit: are hirelings OP? This made me think of other questions I've seen recently on Reddit, all asking essentially the same thing: are hirelings worth it, are they too strong, are they too […]
Has somebody told you the OSR can't do narrative campaigns? Think again! Transcript Good morning. I was looking at Reddit the other day. Someone posted about narrative storytelling in OSR or about running narrative adventures, something in that vein. And there were the usual kind of responses that were bubbling up about OSR and narrative, […]
Let's talk about different types of paths you might use during a hexcrawl in your TTRPG campaign! Transcript A while back on the channel, we looked at some Mystara docs. I'll try to link the video up, if you wanna check out that stream. These docs had some really interesting, but really crunchy rules for […]
I'm becoming more and more of an adherent of High Trust game styles and I was reminded of this when I stumbled upon a discussion of invisibility in the Draw Steel subreddit. Transcript One of the things that I have discovered of late in my gaming journey is I'm leaning more and more towards high […]
Do we need evil creatures as morally acceptable fodder for our TTRPG games? 📖 Read the Prismatic Wastelands blog post, "Killing Creatures". Transcript There's a blog post posted earlier in the week on the Prismatic Wastelands blog looking at settings and which creatures in those settings it is morally acceptable to murder. It got me […]
Can you ditch the dungeon and still play an old school D&D game?
How do you feel about the use of AI in the tabletop roleplaying games that you play and run? Transcript When the algorythm-driven image generators hit the scene, it didn't take very long for the community around tabletop role-playing games for the most part to disavow them. Though some of us might have been a […]
Take the generic player character classes and tweak them for your setting.
