30 Old OSR Blog Posts You Should Read
My next Fat Bear Week thing is taking a minute so I'll put up a backburner post instead.
Some of these are too obvious. There's probably some glaring omissions, let me know if you think there are things that should be on this list. I made 2020 my arbitrary cutoff for "old" so posts like "SRD" and "New Simulationism", (And even "Rules Elide") didn't make the cut. Shout out to Ktrey who had to be excluded lest he take up half the list. The order is roughly most to least important to me personally.
Some of the authors listed here might be bad people. I didn't check. Their inclusion in this list isn't an endorsement of their character.
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- Keeping Dungeon Threats Threatening
- Exploring by Torchlight
- 20 Quick Questions
- Small Tables
- What do the Monsters Want?
- Practical polytheism
- Interesting and Useful Dungeon Descriptions
- Running a Game
- B/X Headgear
- How fast do armies move?
- Medieval Price List
- Scale on the Ground
- 16 Hit Point Dragon
- Old School Style Challenges
- Just Use Bears
- The Two-Week Megadungeon
- The Original D&D Setting
- Simple Complex City Generator
- Guess Who Mystery Scenarios
- The Best OSR Tables
- Character Sheets in 1975
- West Marches
- Eating Monsters
- Escalation Die
- Gem Values
- Party like it's 999
- Dynamic Combat Scenes
- The Dalluhn Manuscript
- The Original Blackmoor Magic System
- Mixing Rumours, Events and Random Encounters
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Reading: Enshitification by Cory Doctorow
Listening: Warriors of The Dragonfang Order by Coniferous Myst
Playing The World Ends With You (Nintendo DS)