Design alien humanoids with either "original series" or "next generation" sensibilites, or blend the two approaches! There are 100 forehead shapes that may be randomly rolled when a new alien race is encountered.
sealed their fate wrote:The handwriting is already on the wall. These boys have been flushed.
trigross wrote:also i can vouch for some really cool osr products by the hydra collective if you want some "weirder" fantasy stuff: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/140450/Slumbering-Ursine-Dunes, http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151165/FeverDreaming-Marlinko and http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/183439/Misty-Isles-of-the-Eld - i especially love fever dreaming marlinko for a city adventure
trigross wrote: in b/x you don't get to make an intelligence check to discern if you would know what the arcane history of a symbol etched on the dungeon wall - the dm decides if you do or not, or maybe (if you're me and a lazy dm) asks you to create some meaning for it, or maybe the dm comes up with some rule on the fly.
hector doepos wrote:thanks trigross! you've definitely helped me find my starting blocks for DM'ing a lot faster than would otherwise have been possible.
my preference is also for less rules rather than more. osr seems like exactly what i was after. just looking for a basic framework to allow players to get deep in the story.
feel like the DMs (as hip as they may have been on the 5e ruleset) have still been too focused on rules and math for my taste - definitely gets in the way of good, spontneous story telling and immersion.
ended up buying a 2nd hand moldvay basic (b/x) box on ebay. i figure i don't really need the 'expert book', which I hear introduces more archetypes etc. as it could be fun to keep the rules light to encourage more invention. (lmk if that seems like a bad idea tho lol)
some cool resources I have come across.
A quick primer on old school gaming, does a great job of explaining (and selling) the oldschool rpg mindset:
https://files.meetup.com/1571284/A%20Quick%20Primer%20to%20Old%20Skool%20Gaming.pdf
Sword and Wizardry 'Whitebox Rules' by Finch & Brieg
https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1370/46/1370469495471.pdf
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