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We get our maps laminated with a double sided matt lamination at a plan printing firm. We have to ask for double sided, as their normal practice is to do one side gloss, the other matt. They don't reflect the fluorescent lights above the table at all, and they look Amazing. We store them flat in a giant envelope I made for them.

"On the job edition" Hahaha! I really appreciated getting my copy in the mail, for sure!

Been fun and inspiring so far - when is the next session?

you look jewish

Any more episodes after this one?

Hi SoloRPG! I am the creator of The Drifter(and Star Drifter). I am currently working on the third game in this series, it will be a fantasy(sword and sorcery) version. Thank you for playing! I’m glad you got some enjoyment out of it!🤠🐴👍🏻

My money goes to non-Hasbeen/WOTC projects. If you REALLY want to hit 'em where it hurts, hit 'em in the wallet. Play one of the other million + TTRPGS that exist; Crimson Dragon Slayer, LotFP, Blades in the Dark, Into the Odd, Troika, Mörk Borg, Pirate Borg, Apocalypse Rat, Gamma World, Deadlands, Vampire, or 1e and 2e ORIGINAL TSR D&D, to name just a few... just don't spend your money with Hasbro/WOTC; send them a powerful message by COMPLETELY IGNORING THEM.

We never used the combat sequence when we played back in the day.

I’ll allow hunting based on dexterity and wisdom scores. If the scores are low, it’ll be 1 in 6 chance in 2-24 hours time. If it’s mid, I’ll do 2 in 6 chance in 1-12 hours. If the scores are high, it’s 3 in 6 chance in 1-6 hours.

Haven't ever heard of this system, seems something right up my alley. Might have to check it out. thanks for the video, was really a lot of fun to watch.

I figure after 40 odd years that I've forgotten more than I think I know and know that it will be a pleasure to relearn the game all over again, given half the chance.

LMBO oh yeah 😂

White Box is always close at hand!

WHoa! No idea this existed!

Cracking me up

A “weak beta”? So they worship Jordan Peterson in this world? So instead of celibate clerics they have InCelibate clerics?

Player reflections 19:42

It’s not “scones” and it’s not “sconches.” It’s sconces.

My only experience with PBtA was a fantastic sci-fi game Uncharted Worlds. Ivan GMed it for us and that can be seen on his channel. I loved it but we only played one or two sessions. I don't recall Uncharted Worlds referencing "Moves" but if it did, I didn't realize it and was probably not "playing" it correctly. But it was one of the inspirations in my player history that moved me toward what evolved into the 2061 role-play first concepts. Great video.

Roleplay Cafe +, awesome video keep it up dude

I don’t want to play a game where the party always acts like they’re in an episode of Real Housewives.

So we play to find out story if it’s a trap or a combat - but bit if it’s a Charisma roll.

B/X is where its at!!

It is my belief that there is no wrong way to play RPGs, but there are ways that cannot co-exist on the same table. or cannot be accommodated at the same time. Therefore it is almost imperative to identify yourself and whether you can play with others first before play even begins.

Orcus...Demon Prince of the Undead

The problem I keep seeing with live plays is that there is way too much intraparty drama. If that’s how you’re going to play then there’s no reason to ever leave the tavern in the first place.

There is a distinct difference between what occurs in DAoM and the old-school d20. It is clear and distinct for me as a "role-player". The two sets of rules create different styles of role-play. D20 is about the "game" and the "group of characters". DAoM is about the individual characters and the world, the "game" is almost completely invisible.

Good video J. To andwer about my take on najeon in the last game. I have to mentally create a picture from my character position to decide how it would prompt his real world decision. Is he going to duck iut and slip around to get a backstab? Hide away till the dust settles. Loo oad his thong and try to a strike with a stone? I gather situational information. So sharing information is important. As a side note. To me in DAoM that information is fluid. So much so thet the situational awareness is their. It just becomes a focus of timing as thibgs are occuring.

I'm hoping to run Dragonslayer and Barrowmaze at my table, so I'm enjoying these recaps. Great stuff!

Good stuff, I really enjoy these recaps.

I played B/X in the day and I can't imagine as the DM doing all the rolls for damage, my players would have crucified me.

Still Following these, good Job, I like how your GM is handling events in the greater Barrowmaze area.

It's kind of weird to me comparing this game to DCC as another OSR game. I just never thought of DCC as OSR. It's a fantasy d20 game for sure but there are tons of games using mechanics from the OGL that aren't OSR. I don't go for OSR games that are purely clones of earlier versions or games that push the limits to where the gameplay experience becomes significantly different. To me, Swords & Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord aren't games themselves. They're experiments on whether you can print D&D with a new name on the cover. On the other hand, DCC is completely in the opposite direction. It's an experiment on whether you can change every rule but then still call it D&D (Yes I know DCC isn't called D&D but you get my point). I don't think of either one of these extremes as the OSR. I absolutely think Dragonslayer is an OSR game. Don't misunderstand me. Just making a comment that I think the OSR has a boundary that Dragonslayer sits inside and DCC sits outside. Doesn't mean either one of them is good or bad as a game, just don't think the two belong in the same category within the overall hobby of fantasy roleplaying.

Why would your character not accept healing from a cleric?

Barbarians of Lemuria is not OSR. It is initial swords & sorcery fantasy version of the RPG system Everywhen that now has half a dozen or more setting-specific implementations of the BOL system. Because its system so closely resembles Traveler it's pretty much accepted as an OSR game in OSR communities I've seen, but it's technically an original modern RPG. It's my favorite fantasy RPG because it's just the absolute perfect balance of being fast and easy to play with amazing character customization and a low-magic but not grimdark setting. That last point is more important than you'd think, but most people seem to link low magic with grimdark and it's hard to find a low magic game that's still designed around fun adventure and not depressing and dark.

what i keep asking myself is : could we somehow homebrew something that keeps some of the cool combat options of 4e but keep things grounded for gritty dungeon crawls, i.e. worrying about rope to descend into a pit, arrow traps etc. certain things like Eldarin teleport At Will abilities break this but i think we could still do cool options with combat to allow for an interesting middle ground between 'super hero' fantasy PCs and adventurers in the general sense

Great thoughts, thanks, I enjoy these videos. Being someone who wants t get back into RPG, this channel is great, thanks guys, keep up the excellent work

Thanks for the top drawer recap! Nothing bargain basement here!

This is an excellent recap. Really appreciate you doing this and sharing with us all.

Discount Jason here, filling in for the boss! 😂😂😂

Bollo the Barkeep in The Brazen Strumpet tavern

What you really mean by character death is “When your character dies that’s great for the game. When my character dies I’m just going to keep playing like it never happened.”

For your guys' AP, the only thing I wish you had up was a map. Either the player's map for that "should be right" feel, or the MC map to get an anchoring of where the characters are. I watch vids while doing other things, and the only thing that keeps me from having these on in that (outside viewer's) feel of not knowing where anything is spatially.

We played OD&D exactly that way. But OD&D is not a role-playing game and a lot of the mechanisms it has don’t work well for role-playing. For example death at zero hit points but no effects before or after that, spell slots, and the undead turning rules - and especially Save or Die. Those are all elements of skirmish games. But you’re the one who champions playing in character - until your character dies and then it’s just a game and the character can be replaced like a dropped Meeple. I want you to remember to make a distinction between games where character death matters and games where it doesn’t mean shit.

- Excellent video. I don't understand people who would disagree with anything you said on the subject of playing- role playing GAMES . I follow the same principles and of course in the past would Hack/hotrod/ a game a bit. I suppose a video by you in the future discussing whether or not hacking/modifying a game to a point of becoming the SHIP of THESEUS philosophical argument could be had. I did this a few years ago with 5e and found I was fighting a rule set uphill trying for a play style 5e couldn't support. - I hacked it ( as Mike Mearls intended it could be ) but to little success and ... as you said I was better off Playing a Different Game. An OSR game. PS: To me 5e D&D was too similar to Steve Jackson's TOON Rpg 2ed. Some of us gamers just don't want Cartoon Superhero in our Fantasy RPGs.

100% agree, doubly so about Role Play is better played then watched. 'course, just my opinion.

You are aware that acting does not necessarily require a script? And I mean not just improv theatre, but many movies with a full script have actors make up lines on the spot and they often end up in the final version of the film. I would still agree that acting and roleplay are not exactly the same, but there is some overlapping between the two. And I think portraying the character in a game can be called acting out that character, and the other players are the audience. Thus roleplaying just for yourself, for your own mind's eye is not roleplay either, that is just dreaming. But roleplay is supposed to be a shared activity, that means you have to share with the other players what your character is about. Sure, I would say roleplay goes there beyond acting, since mimic and gestures usually not played out but have to be put in words, but you have to show that. In that case, roleplay is indeed very similar to radio plays, that people can listen to, and creating an experience that other people want to listen to sounds not bad to me. Anyway, since you are such a sports guy, I wonder do you rewatch occasionally old matches, or even just special moments from them? If so, why do you think it is bad when roleplayers do that with actual plays, but it is fine for people who watch sports? Or do you think sports have to be scripted to be rewatchable? I know my tone can be sardonic, but I am usually quite jovial, and for the most part try to read things with charity. Regarding crits and fumbles, as a designer I can tell you, the y do not always exactly what they are supposed to do. That is why D&D has no fumbles, and the people who add that to their games make fighters worse than casters, since asters do not roll on the magic but fighters do for their attacks, thus it would ruin the balance. And there are games that have such issues in the finished product. Anyway, I think save or die affects roleplay insofar that it usually removes the opportunity to have a moment of dying, like speaking any last words, thus no expression of any final thoughts the character might have. If you character is just a meeple that goes then back into the box, then I would say you missed out on having there a roleplaying moment. Sure, it doesn't have to be thespian, but do at least something there! But well, maybe the issue is with me, I don't play soldiers, nor do I play rags to riches plots. I want something more, something deeper, an exploration of the human condition. I think a character arc is just as the story, something that emerges, and when it does not, then you probably have not really a character to begin with, but just a meeple on the board. However, I agree with you that d20 is not suited to handle that, which is why I usually avoid that system.

its all cool you do you

And by the way, your attitude in this video is like Shonner's. That's a great way to destroy the hobby.

As I said - you didn't die. Your character was instantly transmogrified into another character IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT. And the "dead" character was completely ignored. (The cleric said he'd do something about a burial but never did.) So the character "death" had absolutely ZERO effect on the party or the world - or the player - and there was ZERO roleplaying of the situation. You're playing it like it's a skirmish game (which OD&D was) - not a roleplaying game (which is what D&D eventually evolved into). As for Monopoly - that proves my point exactly. Going to jail doesn't eliminate you from the game - it's a setback that forces you to adapt - and makes the game more interesting not less. (And when you go bankrupt you certainly don't get to just say "Well I'm going to start a new player who's not not bankrupt and has all the same properties as the other one did.) If the poisoned character had to make a constitution saving throw every hour or lose a point off of each characteristic, it would create a condition and a timer that the party would eventually have to address - and make the game more interesting. But don't pretend anything that happened has anything to do with character death.