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a wandering mind (edmo's blog) · 1mo · discuss

There may come a time in a post-OSR (or NSR, or plain old OSR - whatever, choose your acronym) gamer's life where they feel compelled to study the old ways. To look beyond the smooth elegance of a Mythic Bastionland or a Mothership, and try on the frictive clunkiness of TSR era D&D to see how it fits. Dear reader, I have been playing in a modified Old School Essentials campaign for a couple of months now and... I like it! The sense of achievement in finally getting a hobbit (halfling) to survive to level 2 (now sporting some chain...