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OSRSS: Anyone got good rss feed suggestions for osr / rpg content ?
As a start, http://questingblog.com/blog-roll/, and try following blogs mentioned in https://questingbeast.substack.com/
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OSRSS: Anyone got good rss feed suggestions for osr / rpg content ?
As a start, http://questingblog.com/blog-roll/, and try following blogs mentioned in https://questingbeast.substack.com/
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c/OSR Zine Thread
The Sadim Sausage (Midas backwards) is a kind of soft nduja like cured meat sausage that displaces itself with gold. Touch a bar with it and the metal will percolate upwards through the meat like a lava lamp, leaving meat in its place on the bar that will dull and become non-magical after a turn. It is safe and delicious to eat.
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Does anyone havethoughts on the the reputation of OSR/Grognards being a bastion of regressive societal views?
How much you consider this an issue is a function of how terminally online you are. I mean this a bit more charitably than it sounds. If you consider the OSR a loose design and play philosophy you are picking from, then whilst you may be non-plussed that e.g. Prince of Nothing deadnamed Jannell Jacquays in his review of Caverns of Thracia, it does not substantially affect the ways you prep for your game. If, however, you consider the OSR to be a specific cultural space in dialogue about design, which I am lead to believe was actually the case back in the G+ days, then who is in your spaces becomes a much more salient issue to your day-to-day interactions. This is true regardless of your political positions or which "gated" (by which I mean containing a higher coherence around particular norms) community space you occupy, be it the OSR discord, NSR discord, Tenkar's Tavern, therpgsite, etc. To some degree, these spaces are often culturally downstream of a much looser network of design discussion happening over on blogs, but this is not always the case, and I recommend this post https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/01/steps-to-demonetize-ttrpg-hobby.html as a consideration of the additional dimension of the base (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure) of licensing and commercializing that shapes interactions in ways that don't always align to what you might expect a grouping based on politics was. For example, I associate Yochai Gal politically with roughly the same group of people who participate in Zinequest and hang out on the OSR discord server, but the Cairn is published for free online under CC-BY-SA 4.0, which changes the design culture around it as a result.
I recommend this post (http://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-v.html) for some history that's useful context.
As a heuristic, I think it's generally true that the people who spend the most amount of time talking about meta-level issues like this are not likely to be fruitful sources to follow for gameable content. Unless you're a moderator of a community space, you're unlikely to have to power to exclude people, but you do have the power to shape ideas through publishing content freely into a gift culture akin to open source. Spending time discussing values instead of publishing materials that embody them is a miscalibration wrt the ways the average person can have an impact.
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What is Nomic?
Rules changes should instead be submitted as top level community posts and considered to be adopted when they have a score above 1, measured 24h after posting.
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What is Nomic?
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Not communities, but I was watching All sorted by new
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OSRSS: Anyone got good rss feed suggestions for osr / rpg content ?
Here's what I follow. You should be able to download this and import into any RSS reader https://pastebin.com/6Fsiv0tm
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What is your favorite OSR system and why?
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There is a monster book, but it's a book about generating monsters rather than using existing ones. This is a deliberate choice that's explicitly stated in the guidance Raggi gives to writers interested in submitting new content you can find posted... uh... somewhere.
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Jim Wampler makes "This product is free of AI" badge
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Mmm, Ureo adventures for parties level 2-4...
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c/OSR Zine Thread
The bag of holding is a small sackcloth bag filled with down, with two glassy eyes sown to it, and perhaps a pleasant mouth painted on. It is intended as an attachment object for children, and is not dissimilar in that respect to companion cube from portal.
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What is Nomic?
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No, a community post as in a text post submitted as a new thread. Downvoting doesn't scale - you can imagine increasing the threshold later, and also consider the spectator experience. Upvoting = notable should be maintained
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Reading A Historical Look at the OSR — Part V by OSR Simulacra
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I can't link it in the youtube description atm because my account is new. The post is at http://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-v.html
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Bastionland’s list of OSR and OSR-adjacent blogs