So, Zak S. (author of Vornheim, A Red and Pleasant Land, Frostbitten and Mutilated and Demon City among other things) came up with this small questionnaire about out own impressions and experiences within the OSR. I thought it was kinda neat and here I am answering it. Feel free to do the same if you like it.
1. One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me:
http://pitsperilous.blogspot.com/2016/04/minimalist-gaming-doesnt-exist.html
2. My favorite piece of OSR wisdom/advice/snark:
Challenge the player, not his character sheet.
3. Best OSR module/supplement:
Vornheim (http://www.lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=67).
4. My favorite house rule (by someone else):
The carousing rules by Jeff Rients (http://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/09/carousing-in-wessex.html).
5. How I found out about the OSR:
Through Goodman Games modules for 3rd and 4th Edition. I was searching for more of them and saw they made a few with first edition rules and discovered OSRIC.
6. My favorite OSR online resource/toy:
Putple Sorcerer tools for DCC RPG (https://purplesorcerer.com/tools.php).
7. Best place to talk to other OSR gamers:
I would say Google+, but MeWe is starting to feel like a good place to hang out too.
8. Other places I might be found hanging out talking games: Facebook, Twitter (@diogoxp), Instagram (@diogo_nogueira)
9. My awesome, pithy OSR take nobody appreciates enough:
I don’t know if I understood this one. If it’s my take on the OSR or some OSR stuff I pick. If it’s mine, it would be my SS&SS game. If it’s a OSR I should pick, I guess Fantastic Heroes & Witchery.
10. My favorite non-OSR RPG:
The One Ring RPG, for sure.
11. Why I like OSR stuff:
Because it made me see we don’t need a company telling is what to play. We, as a community, can produce and create amazing things by our own.
12. Two other cool OSR things you should know about that I haven’t named yet:
The great sword and sorcery RPG by Jeffrey Talanian, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, and Yoon-Suin, a crazy oriental setting like nothing else you have ever seen!
13. If I could read but one other RPG blog but my own it would be:
Though choice... I guess I would pick Daniel Bishop’s Ravencrow King blog (http://ravencrowking.blogspot.com/)
14. A game thing I made that I like quite a lot is:
Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells (https://igg.me/at/sbncs)
15. I'm currently running/playing:
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells and DCC RPG in Lankhmar.
16. I don't care whether you use ascending or descending AC because:
What matters is the crazy shit we do during the game, not a silly number in a piece of paper.
17. The OSRest picture I could post on short notice:
If you like what you've just read, check out my books over RPGNow and Lulu.
1. One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me:
http://pitsperilous.blogspot.com/2016/04/minimalist-gaming-doesnt-exist.html
2. My favorite piece of OSR wisdom/advice/snark:
Challenge the player, not his character sheet.
3. Best OSR module/supplement:
Vornheim (http://www.lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=67).
4. My favorite house rule (by someone else):
The carousing rules by Jeff Rients (http://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/09/carousing-in-wessex.html).
5. How I found out about the OSR:
Through Goodman Games modules for 3rd and 4th Edition. I was searching for more of them and saw they made a few with first edition rules and discovered OSRIC.
6. My favorite OSR online resource/toy:
Putple Sorcerer tools for DCC RPG (https://purplesorcerer.com/tools.php).
7. Best place to talk to other OSR gamers:
I would say Google+, but MeWe is starting to feel like a good place to hang out too.
8. Other places I might be found hanging out talking games: Facebook, Twitter (@diogoxp), Instagram (@diogo_nogueira)
9. My awesome, pithy OSR take nobody appreciates enough:
I don’t know if I understood this one. If it’s my take on the OSR or some OSR stuff I pick. If it’s mine, it would be my SS&SS game. If it’s a OSR I should pick, I guess Fantastic Heroes & Witchery.
10. My favorite non-OSR RPG:
The One Ring RPG, for sure.
11. Why I like OSR stuff:
Because it made me see we don’t need a company telling is what to play. We, as a community, can produce and create amazing things by our own.
12. Two other cool OSR things you should know about that I haven’t named yet:
The great sword and sorcery RPG by Jeffrey Talanian, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, and Yoon-Suin, a crazy oriental setting like nothing else you have ever seen!
13. If I could read but one other RPG blog but my own it would be:
Though choice... I guess I would pick Daniel Bishop’s Ravencrow King blog (http://ravencrowking.blogspot.com/)
14. A game thing I made that I like quite a lot is:
Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells (https://igg.me/at/sbncs)
15. I'm currently running/playing:
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells and DCC RPG in Lankhmar.
16. I don't care whether you use ascending or descending AC because:
What matters is the crazy shit we do during the game, not a silly number in a piece of paper.
17. The OSRest picture I could post on short notice:
If you like what you've just read, check out my books over RPGNow and Lulu.