Posts about playing and running the various OSR systems
After something like a three-month pause (Peter says 1/9/2015), we return to the Castle of the Mad Archmage. We’d abandoned the arena, and returned to Level 3, looking for stuff to kill and loot in the fine, grand old tradition of delvers everywhere.. After shooting the breeze for nearly an hour, we got down to…
I’m reading Playing at the World, by Jon Peterson, a history of fantastic gaming, currently pointed pretty hard at D&D, the force that animated (and still animates) the industry, and could easily be said to have created the industry to begin with. I’m on page 96 right now, and this thing is 632 pages of,…
Over on Google+, +Benjamin Baugh was thinking about damage reduction in place of increased hit difficulty for D&D armor. This obviously strikes a chord with this GURPS (and D&D) player, and I replied: Even if you run screaming from the game, the implications of negated attacks and armor as damage reduction/resistance are fully fleshed out in GURPS….