How’s this for a deep cut? Does anyone remember the Last Legionary books by Canadian sci-fi author Douglas Hill? Because I don’t. Or, at least, I didn’t until last night.
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Archives for September 2019
The differences between Old-School RPGs in America and Britain
Luther left me a comment under my last post asking if I planned to publish play reports from my upcoming British Old-School campaign. He’s interested in seeing how B-OSR games differ from A-OSR games in practice.
The answer is: yes, I’d love to. I don’t want to bore people with lengthy sagas [Then how about you stop writing here, eh? – Ed.], but a couple of brief write-ups might be acceptable.
However, it got me thinking. How would a B-OSR game feel different from an A-OSR game?
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Dragon Warriors Character Sheet
I’ve made a character sheet for Dragon Warriors. You can get a copy here (though you’ll need a Google account to access it). It’s not my finest work, but it will get the job done.
I’ve decided to use the Dragon Warriors RPG by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson as system of choice for my upcoming “British Old-School” campaign. After reading it through again, it really is about as close to B/X D&D as any British RPG published in the 1970s or ’80s ever came. Hopefully I can put together some Basic D&D / Dragon Warriors conversion notes at some point so that OSR content can be ported in relatively easily.
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