The Other OSR: Ship of Fools The year is 1395. The Hundred Years War has long been over, but neither Europe, or indeed, Christendom is stable. The Crusades continue in t...

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A review of the anti-papal ‘Genre Set-Up’ for Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks, published by Just Crunch Games.

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The Other OSR: Black Powder and Brimstone The Vaterländer Empire is in purgatory. The Holy Empire of the Sanguine Church is rent by a schism of faith. The Church of Holy Blood, gover...

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A review of the dark and grim, war-torn roleplaying game inspired by the Thirty Years War based on Mörk Borg and published by Free League Publishing.

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The Other OSR: Kavlov’s Sanctuary It is over a thousand years since the great wizard, Kavlov, drew upon his magics to bind and imprison Balthazar, a three-eyed demon of Uzran...

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A review of K-1 Kavlov’s Sanctuary, The Dungeon’s Key’s scenario for Mörk Borg, the OSR RPG from the Stockholm Kartell and published by Free League Publishing.

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The Other OSR: Omega City In the far future of broken landscapes, stretched landscapes, and lost landscapes there is often only the appearance of the Gunslinger and t...

The Other OSR: Omega City

A review of Omega City – Ashcan Edition for We Deal in Lead, the post-apocalyptic dark and weird west roleplaying game published by By Odin’s Beard.

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The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes IV Miseries & Misfortunes is a roleplaying game set in seventeenth century France designed and published following a successful Kickstarter ca...

The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes IV

A review of Miseries & Misfortunes – Book 4: Plus de Misères published by Burning Wheel.

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The Other OSR: Lost in the Fold All you know is Here. There is no need to know of anywhere that is not Here. Where is Here? You know nobody who knows. It is your Home. It i...

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A review of the dystopian setting for Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks, published by Just Crunch Games.

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Stone Age Science Fantasy Beliefs Primal Belief is a supplement for Primal Quest – Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game . This roleplaying game of a Stone Age that never was...

Stone Age Science Fantasy Beliefs

A review of Primal Belief, the faith and religion supplement for Primal Quest by Diogo Nogueira and published by Old Skull Publishing.

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[Free RPG Day 2024] Dragonbane – The Sinking Tower Now in its seventeenth year, Free RPG Day for 2024 took place on Saturday, June 22nd. As per usual, Free RPG Day consisted of an array of ...

[#FreeRPGDay2024] Dragonbane – The Sinking Tower

A review of the quick-start for Dragonbane: Mirth & Mayhem Roleplaying published by Free League Publishing for Free RPG Day 2024.

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Old Swedish Renaissance It has been eight hundred years since the fall of the mythic Dragon Empire and ten years since mankind returned to the Misty Vale, the remot...

Old Swedish Renaissance

A review of Dragonbane: Mirth & Mayhem Roleplaying published by Free League Publishing.

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The Other OSR: For A Rainy Day Stefan Meunch is dead. Died three days ago, between weekly visits. Part of the local catalogue round of check-ins for useless and washed-up ...

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A review of For A Rainy Day, a scenario inspired by Slow Horses for Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks from Just Crunch Games.

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The Other OSR: .GIF The Shattered Dominion stands broken by war and the passing of the Last Gods. Only the Warriors of the Grand Guild are now touched by the dw...

#TheOtherOSR: .GIF

A review of With Guile, Incantation and Faith, a ‘Genre Set-Up’ for Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks, published by Just Crunch Games.

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The Other OSR: Pirate Borg They came for the freedom of the new world. They came for the richness of the climate and the beauty of the islands. They came for the plund...

The Other OSR: Pirate Borg—A review of the piratical roleplaying game from Limithron based on Stockholm Kartell’s Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing.

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The Other OSR: Sanction Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks describes itself as a set of “Universal Rules for Challenge-driven Games.” If t...

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A review of Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks from Just Crunch Games.

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The Other OSR: Pirate Borg They came for the freedom of the new world. They came for the richness of the climate and the beauty of the islands. They came for the plund...

The Other OSR: Pirate Borg—A review of the piratical roleplaying game from Limithron based on Stockholm Kartell’s Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing.

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Stone Age Science Fantasy Primal Quest – Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game is a roleplaying of a Stone Age that never was, inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The L...

Stone Age Science Fantasy—A review of Primal Quest – Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventure Game by Diogo Nogueira and published by Old School Publishing.

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The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes III Miseries & Misfortunes is a roleplaying game set in seventeenth century France designed and published following a successful Kickstarter ca...

The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes III

A review of Miseries & Misfortunes – Book 3: The Sacred & The Profane published by Burning Wheel.

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The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes II The year is 1648. The War of the Counter-Reformation never seems to end as what was at first a civil between the Germanic states of the Holy...

The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes II—A review of Miseries & Misfortunes – Book 2: Les Fruits Malheureux published by Burning Wheel.
 
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The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes I The year is 1648. The War of the Counter-Reformation never seems to end as what was at first a civil between the Germanic states of the Holy...

The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes I—A review of Miseries & Misfortunes – Book 1: Roleplaying in 1648 France published by Burning Wheel.
 
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Quick-Start Saturday: Swyvers Quick-starts are means of trying out a roleplaying game before you buy. Each should provide a Game Master with sufficient background to intr...

Quick-Start Saturday: Swyvers—A review of the quick-start for the roleplaying game about Dickensian scrotes and grotty toerags published by the Melsonian Arts Council.

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