Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd is a fantastic little OSR game with a truly unique horror, steampunk vibe. Ben Milton’s Maze Rats takes the ItO core and spins it into […]
Schlagwort: OSR
Belchion: [Review] The Chthonic Codex
The Cthonic Codex offers you to play in the Valley of Fire, where several great school of magicians compete with each other and send their apprentices on adventurous tasks. It was written for the 5MORE rules from the Adventure Fantasy Game, but brings also along compatibility information for OSR games. It was released by Lost Pages.
As the name cthonic codex implies, the setting takes place underg...
Traumthal: Hier fliegen Nostalgiestöckchen rum…
Der liebe Marcus Johanus hat mir mein erstes Blogstöckchen zugeworfen, da kann ich natürlich nur zupacken. Es geht vor allem um Rollenspiel, natürlich, und um die Vergangenheit. Naja, alt genug bin ich ja, schauen wir mal…
1. Was hältst du von OSR (Old School Roleplaying)?
Ich kann damit nicht wirklich viel anfangen. Mein Fokus lag immer auf den Welten und Charakteren lag und weniger au...
Belchion: [Review] Into the Odd
Into the Odd belongs to the games inspired by the hexploration gameplay that was re-popularized by the OSR. It does not try to emulate older versions of D&D, as many other OSR inspired games do, but follows its own way alltogether.
Within its 48 pages, the game offers a complete set of rules, an adventure, and a setting. The brevity demands a price though: The layout could do better. Page layo...