Years after I lost my #dnd #RedBox a friend (♥️) found one in a thrift store and sent it to me by mail. The German language version of the Red Box. Looks brand new, like a message in a bottle straight from the 80s. It just arrived. Hello, old friend. You‘ve been missed. Red Box coming home.
#osr #BECMI #ttrpg

05) OLDEST game you've played?
#RPGaDay2023, pardon?!
#Chess? Strange question. #Checkers?

Oldest #ttrpg?

Most people will answer #DnD. Without information about the edition or variant, it is probably not very informative. Wasn't the #OSR darling #OSE a ripoff/clone of #BX #DnD? #BECMi?
I must have played one of these old versions once. Don't care much.
I answer #TunnelsandTrolls (5e?, end of the 70s? ). BTW: In my opinion, the core of #TnT didn't change much over the decades/editions...

No pictures from HATE this week unfortunately, as apparently the box-daemon had run out of pink.

Busy night though, lots of Age Of Sigmar and 10e 40K. Some Necromunda too. Your humble reporter played in a session zero #BECMI #OSR #D&D game with 6 other players, which was great. We're in the Grand Duchy Of #Karameikos and are about to travel downriver to pick up some prize horses for the Ylaruam ambassador.

A summer return to Gulluvia - Episode 19 - Finding heroes, new and old, for a completely different quest. #DnD #BECMI #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #ttrpg #fantasy #tabletop

https://gamingwiththegnomies.blogspot.com/2023/07/becmi-adventures-in-gulluvia-19-heroes.html

@deidungeon The #anime called #RecordOfLodossWar was based on an actual #BECMI campaign. Interestingly, it later became a #TTRPG on its own. Yes, it's one of my favorite RPG-related cartoons.

The first set of books I had were the AD&D Player’s Guide, GM Guide, and the In Search of Adventure book which collected modules B1-9. (It would take me years to realize technically those adventures were written for a different system.)

In the introduction it gave possible ways to turn the previously disconnected modules into a campaign.

Published 1987.

#TTRPG #DnD #ADnD #InSearchOfAdventure #BECMI #BX #Campaign #AdventurePath

179th page of my Keep on the Borderlands webcomic

The two parties finally meet at the Castilian Keep!

#ttrpg #becmi #rpgart #osr #rpgart #dndart #tkotbl

Bedtime reading with one of my favourite books.

I started playing in the 80s with #BECMI and #adnd but #dnd35e is the edition I feel most at home with.

I thought the cover of #Pathfinder2e Lost Omens Legends was reminiscent of the old #BECMI Gazetteers.

149th page of my Keep on the Borderlands webcomic

Blueblade is the Elf Lord!

#osr #becmi #dnd #rpg #webcomic #tkotbl #rpgart

New Site Post: Old-School Essentials as a D&D alternative to D&D
https://spriggans-den.com/2023/03/02/old-school-essentials-as-a-dd-alternative-for-dd/

I've seen a lot of people voicing unhappiness with D&D being combat heavy and sometimes turning into a dull slog. I think many of these exact issues have been a solved problem for over 42 years and OSE could be an alternative system that people should really look into.

#bx #becmi #ose #dnd #osr

A while back I tried to write an article on what makes #bx #becmi #ose such a great game but couldn't get it reasonably short where anyone would read past the opening.

But in just the last week, I've seen a youtube video, a long forum post, and a Mastodon post on narrative issues with how #dnd approaches combat, and each time I was thinkig "B/X had solved exactly this problem 42 years ago!"

I think I really need to go doing some mossionizing on why people should learn OSE.

#OSE #BECMI #MoldayBasic post #2. Maybe it's a holdover from my line of work (classical music) but I've been wrestling w/ "historical performance practice"-- e.g., what it means to give my D&D camp kids an authentic "old school" experience. If you sidestep the quirky bits (d6 skills, wonky saving throws, turn-based exploring, resource management, etc.) is it *really* Basic D&D? I know it should always be about fun and creativity, but as an old guy it's hard not to pursue an ideal. Anyone else?

The old #BECMI adventures "The Isle of Dread", "Quagmire!", and "Journey to the Rock" range from amazingly evocative, to mediocre, to really bad. But they keep being hugely inspirational for my own #Kaendor setting and the next campaign I am working on. They got this really weird blend of D&D and the Hyborian Age, which I really like.

#dnd

So let's talk d6 skills in Basic, #BECMI, #BX, #OSE, etc. So, if roll-under ability scores are part of your game, do you bother with, say, d6 OPEN DOORS? How do you reconcile something so specific, or do you use OPEN DOORS as a substitute for all strength-based checks? Do you make a distinction between the thief ability MOVE SILENTLY and an attempt (DEX check) by non-thieves to move QUIETLY? I'm very curious how old-school devotees make sense of the d6 quirks. #ttrpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

So I decided that I'm going to do a teleportation maze sometime this month for my #dungeon23. I need to dig out my copy of Rahasia soon! #DND #BECMI

#dnd #bx #becmi #dndmemes #rpgmemes

Methods & Madness: A glance at Basic D&D, B/X, and some clones (#LL, #OSE, #BFRPG, #DFB, #BECMI and others) https://trl.ca/2wd #DnD

The Save vs. Wands in #moldvaybasic/ #BECMI ... fiddly, for sure. I found this a while back-- a reference to a statement by Gary Gygax: "Gygax stated that save vs. wands was usually an act of physically dodging, while save vs. spells was mental resistance and, for magic-users who have much better save vs. spells than other classes, a bit of counterspell." I can't find the quote anywhere. Thoughts? #dnd #osr #ose

@n8flug Voll Zutimmung, Ich spiele #DnD seit #BECMI, aber es war immer eine Art Notnagel.
Ich mag weder die Tropes (#Dungeons, #KillMonsters, #Loot, #Levelup) noch das System bzw. die Welten - zu viel #KITCHENSINK.
#DND4e machte mir als Rollenbrettspiel recht viel Freude, weil es mehr als z. B. #Gloomhaven bieten kann, aber als #ttrpg #lol. Ich verstehe das "Festhalten am #d20" nicht. Bin wohl "kein Mainstream".
Enjoy.