A game jam from 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-22 hosted by TTRPGSupreme. Welcome to the first jam for Mythic Bastionland the “Mythic Bastion-Jam” Chris has offered the OSR sphere something spectacular with Mythic Bastionlan…

Scrap Princess art

A zungeon about secrets left under a forgotten abbey

A new, simple role-playing game based on an old, simple war game

Jump between three dungeons that occupy the same caves… but in parallel dimensions! An OSR adventure.

Kind of love this idea.

I mean, in combination with some gloracular, tier-two–truthy way to get monster stats (including number appearing) if using a system that uses monster stats.

I don’t remember why I disliked the underclock and I’ve never even heard of the overloaded dice but this fusion seems like it’d work great.

Li’l known fact: you don’t have to JOESKY tax if you’ve drank beer or otherwise can’t be arsed! As per last paragraph here.

So fight on, keyboard warriors!

Adam writes:

The system is as much a tool for building the world and as any hex description.

Gurbintroll has a new B/X out, “Light Fantasy”, what are your takes?

I have zero idea who made this, since it was posted to a site that’s in crumbles, or the person might’ve been banned for a good reason, I don’t know, but they made an alternative progression for clerics and thiefs in order to patch the Rules Cyclopedia to run campaigns written for OSE.

Looking at the RC though, it’s fine as it is I feel 🤷🏻‍♀️

Arden Vul is heavy on the prepped facts which is cumbersome but enables so much interconnectivity. As just one example (out of dozens of such examples per session), someone’s shoe is missing in one room and that shoe then actually is somewhere else in this ginormous dungeon. There are books and rings and… ugh, I shouldn’t‘ve mentioned the rings because that’s a problem here. This book puts the awesomest most mindblowing stuff in the hands of the most pushover, easy-to-kill villains. Again, the setup and overall construction and sheer tier-one–ness is what makes this so awesome, not the content itself.

Wonderful #blorb posts by malinux!

In linguistics, we have “open and closed wordclasses”. The exact same thing exist in ludemes for game design but I don’t known the word for it. Alex lists some examples for D&D style games in this post:

The Milliwhack metric for campaign lethality. I’ve lost track. What usually happens with D&D is that the lethality is higher in the lower levels of the campaign. Which is pretty appropriate & good design 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Rules Cyclopedia is my second favorite RPG that we never ever get to use (well, we use the occasional rule from it) because it’s too close but yet so far to our normal, slightly more 5e-tilted edition mashup. During the OGL scare, the RC was one of the games I considered (not that it’s open source either, but OSE and DD are and they’re reasonably compatible).

I was reading some OSR fanzines with a ton of custom classes and monsters today and they’d probably be usable with RC too, with maybe just the XP curve changing.

I have the kinda blurry (but works just fine) PoD reprint of the US original. This Japanese edition is especially beautiful.