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narrow roll window think your way out popularity 14 roll frequency low very easy tasks automatically succeed and very hard tasks automatically fail motivation in world problem solving prioritizing player skill over character skill upsides the least amount of rolling so the game moves the fastest rolling is often used as a way to abstract away the player s engagement with the world shrinking the roll window encourages interaction and gives players a greater sense of control over their characters if very hard tasks automatically fail you get less hail mary play where players ask to roll for highly implausible actions to see if they work you can just tell them that the attempt would fail and move on this window imposes more limits on players actions but limitations breed creativity it s the window that incentivizes thinking the most if very easy tasks automatically succeed that pushes players to try to come up with smart plans that reduce or eliminate risk when players want to try something very hard you can say that s going to automatically fail unless you have a solid plan and if your plan is good enough it ll just work downsides the game feels less realistic since you aren t getting to roll for that 1 chance of success that moldvay recommends it relies more on gm fiat than other windows because the gm makes more calls on what counts as very easy and very hard which some people won t like it s a high trust style that requires buy in and that s the real question isn t it what counts as very easy and very hard i think a task is in those categories when it s right on the borderline when i m pretty sure what the result is going to be but maybe a roll would make sense that s when i just declare the results as you might expect the narrow window is the one i like the best but the high window can also be fun in the right campaign gm s day sale on drivethrurpg march 6 2025 ben 0 comments drivethrurpg is having one of its biggest sales of the year go here for all of the osr titles on sale or check out my top picks below also if you re not subscribed to my newsletter you can click here to make sure you re in the running for my occasional giveaways this month it s a free special edition copy of the break rpg knave 2e is 50 off its biggest discount since release the rest of my books like summer s end maze rats and the waking of willowby hall are all 40 off jim henson s labyrinth the adventure game a fantastic game of problem solving for kids that i wrote the adventure for lots of adventures that were awarded the best by bryce lynch at ten foot pole including pestilence at halith vorn the house under the moondial the valley of flowers standoff at sandfell sea fort tomb of the twice crowned king completely unfathomable secret of black crag aberrant reflections wyvern songs the frost spire date of expiration temple of 1000 swords ominous crypt of the blood moss the cauldron bottomless pit of zorth tomb robbers of the crystal frontier and peril in olden wood necrotic gnome has cut prices on nearly all their books their old school essentials line of rulebooks is a mainstay of the osr and their adventures are top notch lots of old school dnd books are 40 off including the rules cyclopedia the ad d core books the ad d 2e core books the keep on the borderlands the planescape setting and the dark sun setting kevin crawford s books like worlds without number cities without number godbound and wolves of god are great if you need lots of great gm tools for any setting the gardens of ynn and the stygian library are great if you want evocative creepy pocket dimensions free league s books are almost all discounted including into the odd remastered the one ring forbidden lands dragonbane pirate borg and mork borg grimwild a streamlined character driven cinematic fantasy rpg almost everything from the cyberpunk line is heavily discounted from cyberpunk red to cyberpunk 2020 the mythic game master emulator 2e for solo players nearly all the core books at white wolf including vampire werewolf mage and the rest most traveller books are deeply discounted the core rulebook is a full 50 off knave 2e adventure jam prompts september 7 2024 ben 1 comment i ve launched the knave 2e adventure jam on itch io create an old school adventure for knave and get entered to win some prizes click randomize on the generator below to get prompts to inspire adventure ideas if you don t like them tweak or reroll knave 2e and summer s end now available june 25 2024 ben 1 comment knave 2e is publicly available if you missed out on the kickstarter now s the time to grab a copy also newly available is summer s end my collection of 12 one page adventures to drop into any fantasy rpg campaign get them at drivethrurpg want to buy physical copies of the books we have those too get them at swordfish islands want to see what s inside knave 2e i ve made a video walking through it page by page so you can see exactly what you get and here s a look inside summer s end thanks for the support the dungeon of the black cauldron february 15 2024 ben 5 comments i just saw the black cauldron for the first time and absolutely loved the dungeon architecture in the horned king s palace open them in a new tab to blow them up i ve edited out the characters in some of them the history of osr ennie awards august 14 2021 ben 0 comments with the recent release of the 2021 ennie award nominations the waking of willowby hall was nominated for best adventure i thought i d take a look back through the award s history to see how the osr has historically fared i ve listed all osr and osr adjacent products that have been nominated since 2010 below if they have 1 star they won silver in their category if they have 2 stars they won gold of course what counts as osr is a matter of personal opinion so other people might count this differently my list starts at 2010 because prior to that the only osr ish products appear to be books by goodman games and necromancer games who were using 3 5 for their rules 2010 3 nominations 0 wins the grinding gear best adventure honorable mention death frost doom best cartography honorable mention labyrinth lord best game 2011 2 nominations 1 win old school hack best free product honorable mention stars without number best new game 2012 0 nominations 0 wins 2013 5 nominations 0 wins the magnificent joop van ooms best art astonishing swordsmen and sorcerers of hyperborea best game astonishing swordsmen and sorcerers of hyperborea best production values astonishing swordsmen and sorcerers of hyperborea product of the year goodman games favorite publisher 2014 1 nomination 0 wins old school monsters database best software 2015 4 nominations 4 wins a red pleasant land best adventure a red pleasant land product of the year a red pleasant land best setting a red pleasant land best writing 2016 5 nominations 3 wins maze of the blue medusa best adventure maze of the blue medusa best cartography maze of the blue medusa best electronic book maze of the blue medusa best writing maze of the blue medusa product of the year 2017 7 nominations 4 wins broodmother skyfortress judge s spotlight blood in the chocolate best adventure the cursed chateau best cartography veins of the earth best adversary veins of the earth best rules veins of the earth best writing veins of the earth product of the year 2018 15 nominations 8 wins fever swamp judge s spotlight operation unfathomable judge s spotlight the dark of hot springs island best adventure frostbitten and mutilated best interior art the midderlands best cartography scenario from ontario best electronic book vaginas are magic best free product frostbitten and mutilated best monster rey and kiel can do best podcast hobbs and friends of the osr best podcast fear of a black dragon best podcast frostbitten and mutilated best setting frostbitten and mutilated best writing the dark of hot springs island product of the year frostbitten and mutilated product of the year 2019 17 nominations 5 wins the stygian library judge s spotlight mothership dead planet best adventure winter s daughter best adventure winter s daughter best cover art a new map of hot springs island cartography silent titans cartography midderlands expanded cartography the ultraviolet grasslands best free product mothership best game the black hack 2nd edition best layout design questing beast best online content silent titans best production values mothership best rules silent titans best writing troika best writing mothership product of the year silent titans product of the year 2020 19 nominations 11 wins a pound of flesh best adventure the halls of arden vul complete best adventure trilemma adventures best adventure ultraviolet grasslands best cover art ultraviolet grasslands best interior art trilemma adventures best cartography tunnel goons best free game mork borg best game a pound of flesh best layout mork borg best layout trilemma adventures best layout worm witch best monster old school essentials generators best online content appendix n book club best podcast rakehell best setting electric bastionland best writing mork borg best writing mork borg product of the year trilemma adventures product of the year 2021 16 nominations wins the waking of willowby hall best adventure halls of the blood king best adventure dndngen best aid accessory digital neverland best art cover neverland best art interior halls of the blood king best cartography undying sands best cartography mausritter boxed set best family game product the stygian library remastered best layout and design dndngen best online content worldbuilder s notebook best rpg related product the stygian library remastered best setting undying sands best setting mörk borg cult feretory best supplement the stygian library remastered best writing the stygian library remastered product of the year notes in 2020 the osr had almost 17 of all ennie nominations and 26 of all wins and it would be even higher if i included osr inspired stuff like labyrinth 2020 was also the peak of a seven year run where the number of osr nominations increased year after year i would be curious to see how forge derived games or storygames have done over time my impression is that they have become much more popular in recent years but i don t know enough about them to tell which books would fall into that category the adventure game through history september 13 2020 ben 0 comments in a previous post i talked about my preference for the term adventure game over osr in some ways i like it better than the term rpg as well i was gratified to find that the person who invented the whole genre david wesely felt the same way since then i ve been on the lookout for instances of rpgs being called adventure games some of the first examples were in d d the moldvay cook boxed sets put it right on their covers and subsequent beginners boxes used it as well it even ended up on the spines of ad d books since then it has mostly be used to refer to beginner boxed sets i assume because adventure game is much easier to grasp than roleplaying game if you re a parent looking to buy something for your kid however in recent years it s begun to show up more frequently on games where it isn t code for rpg lite this is especially true in the old school sphere what other examples of rpgs being labelled adventure games are out there how do you feel about this trend vote for labyrinth at the ennies july 8 2020 ben 0 comments voting for the ennie awards is open now and my rpg labyrinth the adventure game is nominated for two categories best family game and best cartography to vote just go to those categories here and give labyrinth a 1 you can also vote for questing beast in the fan favorite publisher category remember to leave blank any entries that you don t like as assigning a number always improves an entry s ranking lots of other osr products have been nominated this year including best adventure a pound of flesh trilemma adventures the halls of arden vul complete best art cover the ultraviolet grasslands best art interior the ultraviolet grasslands best cartography trilemma adventures best free game tunnel goons best game mörk borg best layout and design a pound of flesh trilemma adventures mörk borg best monster worm witch best online content essentials generators best podcast appendix n book club best setting rakehell best writing electric bastionland mörk borg product of the year trilemma adventures mörk borg sea of thieves the best osr combat game april 28 2020 ben 2 comments i m now playing sea of thieves for about 4 hours a day playing solo is awful but with a crew of close friends family members it s transcendent a huge part of that is the ship battles which can be approached with an intensely osr sense of creative mayhem there s so many many strategies you can employ to take out someone s ship but even when you do it expertly which i am very bad at you re on these large fast vessels with a lot of patrick stuart s held kinetic energy so there s so many variables and ways for things to go wrong when you shoot cannons at enemy ships you want to hit them below the waterline but that s tricky because both ships are moving up and down on the waves as you move you can also shoot down their masts to slow them blast enemy pcs off the deck or shoot firebombs to light their ship on fire which spreads there are also magical cannonballs that can drop their anchor seal all their supply barrels make them all drunk dance sleep or lame or break their cannons each ship has harpoon guns on the front that you can use to latch on to enemy ships to pull them in or reel in treasure allies or enemies in range when you get hit below the waterline water starts pouring in the hole which you have to patch by hand and then bail by scooping water into a bucket and throwing it over the side but you might want a little bit of a leak because you can use it to put out fire on deck or bail the water onto the other boat there are barrels of gunpowder you can drop over the side and hope that enemy ships hit them or you can swim one over to their boat climb on board and then blow it up you can load yourself into your own cannons and have a friend fire you onto enemy ships from 100 yards away the game s an amazing story generator instead of giving you game mechanics to manipulate and attack numbers that go up the game just gives you tons of tools that you can use creatively and then waits to see who is going to be the cleverest all the canons in the game do the same damage all ships of the same class go the same speed you don t level up your character you level up your real world strategic skills there s basically no hud in the game everything has to be done physically to know wind direction you look up at the sky to know what direction you re facing you have to pull out a compass to navigate you have to look at a map on a table it s also an extremely cooperative game and pretty easy to learn so it s i...