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I was looking over some old YouTube videos and came across this show from 2014 called This Imaginary Life.

I was looking over some old YouTube videos and came across this show from 2014 called This Imaginary Life. It’s chock full of some really strong GM and gaming advice. There are some serious rockstars in these things (and me, since I gathered them together):

Lowell Francis

Stras Acimovic

Erik Frankhouse

Judd Karlman

Jason Corley

Stacy Dellorfano

John Stavropoulos

Arnold Cassell

Jenn Martin

Brendan Conway

The group tackles topics like:

– How to Build an RPG Group

– Handling Competitive Players

– Burnout and Long Campaigns

– Clearly Stating your Playstyle

– Breaking up with your Game Group

– Tools for Running RPGs

– Running without Prep

– Making One Shots Rock

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLccARXndpwfiynSCsVrTZRfp_wfdfI9O5

Hi all, I compiled three World of Dungeons custom classes I created for play in Tom McGrenery’s ongoing Yoon-Suin…

Hi all, I compiled three World of Dungeons custom classes I created for play in Tom McGrenery’s ongoing Yoon-Suin based campaign for The Gauntlet. They’re all fairly out of the ordinary so they may be of interest if you’re looking for something fun and unusual!

Has anyone tried running an OSR megadungeon like Barrowmaze with Dungeon World or one of its variants (World of…

Has anyone tried running an OSR megadungeon like Barrowmaze with Dungeon World or one of its variants (World of Dungeons or Freebooters on the Frontier)?

Jason Cordova and anyone else who has done this: I’m going to run Cheat Your Own Adventure for some friends soon.

Jason Cordova and anyone else who has done this: I’m going to run Cheat Your Own Adventure for some friends soon. Reading over the rules I can see all the prep work you did for the Dia de los Muertos session. The scripted first passages and custom loss conditions were really fucking smart and drove our stories in interesting directions. For me, the scenario “You are a student at an Italian boarding school and if you lose you become the bride of Satan” has a lot more dramatic juice than the default “get treasure from [random location]+[random descriptor], if you lose you die.”

But I’m kinda drawing a blank for how to come up with a new one. Tips? At the moment I’m thinking of starting with something Lynch (Blue Velvet maybe?) and seeing what happens. Has anybody collected a bunch of scenarios like this for CYOA?

Howdy!

Howdy! Came across this article today at work. The author has some interesting insights into why people are drawn to roleplaying games based on qualitative analysis (so interviews). Good stuff…and it can help you to be a better GM! http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol22/iss11/1/

http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol22/iss11/1/

I’m new here.

I’m new here. Not sure where to greet folks, but this seems like as good a place as any. I sort of lurked during Gauntlet Con (Thanks for the invite to run some games, Kate)

But anywho, I wanted to say hello and see if anyone could point me to the best place to learn more about the community.

Thanks!

Hey, this may be of interest to folks playing OSR games. I think Tom McGrenery will probably like this.

Hey, this may be of interest to folks playing OSR games. I think Tom McGrenery will probably like this.

I’m loving Fear of a Black Dragon, and I’m dying to run Barrowmaze Complete.

To help enforce the resource management aspect of OSR games like B/X and LL, I made this simplified encumbrance system. Hope you like.

Feedback welcomed.

Originally shared by Eloy C

Simple? B/X Encumbrance system

Here is my attempt at an easy to use encumbrance system:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yY-IhJTowesIWRjMGaKo4APc374ytH8H?usp=sharing

I want to run an old-school dungeon crawl, The Barrowmaze, using B/X D&D. Given the nature of the module, I think keeping track of encumbrance is going to be vital to reinforce the resource management aspect of the old school play.

I was inspired by the Black Hack and by World of Warcraft, of course.

I tried to draw most of this from the B/X rules, with some help from AD&D 1e, and BECMI where there were gaps. I also looked at Labyrinth Lord. I experimented with the pregens on Barrowmaze and tried calculating their encumbrance in B/X, LL, BECMI and LotFP, and came up with similar values, so it’ll do for my purposes.

I think that if one were to print out the sheet, laminate it and mark it with erasable markers, it would be super useful at the table.

I’m not a graphic designer, obviously. If anyone wants to take a crack at a real sheet, that’d be nice.

Hope this is useful for someone else.

Thoughts?

I’m hoping to follow Jason Cordova lead and run some classic modules using World of Dungeons (Tomb of Horrors anyone?

I’m hoping to follow Jason Cordova lead and run some classic modules using World of Dungeons (Tomb of Horrors anyone?). I’m after online resources, fanzines or communities people have found useful to support World of Dungeons?

I’m specifically looking into advice for conversions and content for fleshing out the magic system a bit?

With Gauntlet Con coming up fast I have a couple newbie questions:

1 – Other than my computer, headphones and a microphone, what should I have ready? Do I bring blank playbooks (Dungeon World game) or would there be something over Google Docs?

2 – Do I need to download some kind of dice app?

3 – Is there something “everyone” knows about gaming online that I might be clueless about?

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