Although I am primarily a board gamer, this series has really gotten me intrigued and interested in tabletop RPG. That endless stairwell sounds fascinating..and terrorizing! Thanks for the video Zach! Please keep the RBC series going!
@haveswordwilltravel
Жыл бұрын
Old School Essentials is a reimagining of the 1981 Basic and Expert rulesets, not the original 1974 Dungeons & Deagons rules. OSE cleaves as close to the B/X rules and slims them down cutting out much of the text so that only the bare basics remain.
@DumahAtreides
Жыл бұрын
Good rundown! I'm not sure I'm ever going to be an RPG player, but it's fun to learn. Mechanically focused dungeon crawler puzzles do sound loads better for my tastes - so now knowing that's a thing certainly gets my attention.
@maecenusx345
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been playing OSE for a couple of years now and have had a great time with it. For the most part, the campaigns I’ve played in have stuck close to the rules as written and not delved too much into Homebrew. Though, for my own game I have created a bunch of Homebrew content inspired by 3.5 edition. Overall, it’s a fun game and is pretty easy for new players to jump in. Character creation takes 10 minutes and it’s easy for a DM to pull up an adventure like Winters Daughter and run it without any prep.
@calvincasaday7690
11 ай бұрын
I’ve been playing OSE for a couple years now And we’ve never worried about the mechanics. Maybe look up the specifics of a spell. Like if speak with animal allows you to speak with all animals, or if there’s a restriction at the time of casting. I think one of the beauties of the game is that it rules light and if you can’t remember the rule, just make it up. We don’t open up Books while we’re playing the game. As for the tricks and puzzles that are meaningless, I find it always leads to player disengagement. Either they stop bothering with puzzles and looking for traps or purposefully blunder into them to see if they’re fake. Because they already have new characters already rolled up and it’s not fun wasting time Trying to figure out if it’s real or not. As for the book quality, I’ve had mine for three or four years one of the ribbons frayed a little bit but I added a little fire to it and solve the problem. They do loosen up, so they lay flat after a while. But all the pages are still secure.
@MarkHyde
Жыл бұрын
I hope you're going to cover some of the rule books that came before OSE - like OSRIC and S&W - I'm sad that the OSE is seen as the ONLY Essentials of 'old school' role-playing. Labyrinth Lord established itself as the first full clone of B/X.
@zacharygroombridge6511
Жыл бұрын
i would love too. i am trying to take some broad swings with the rule book club though. there are whole youtube channels that focus on the OSR and its huge legacy of games that i dont think i can compete with. Instead i hope that i introduce my self and the audience of room and board to the bredth of the wild world of table top rpgs and when one of these games grab someone's attention i hope they go and seek out more games in that genre/style. the club will swing back around to the OSR again i am sure. If there is one game system in the OSR that you feel is the most unique or that stand out as particularly polished, which would you pick out? ill add it to my short list
@MarkHyde
Жыл бұрын
@@zacharygroombridge6511 All cool - Thanks for your reply - I love your presentation style and professional narration - great video. :) I think a retrospective on OSRIC would be a good way to start and mention the three other games that we're written around that time too(S&W/LL/BFRPG). It goes back to the beginning of the OSR attempt to re-write the rules so fresh adventures could be published legally. Oler editions just weren't being freshly published anymore and WOTC wasn't releasing them either at the time on digital storefronts. And the publishers haven't been sued yet. The editor, Stuart Marshall, has indicated a newer edition is in the initial work phase too. I'm not pushing any kind of 'edition/game war' just giving a possible content idea suggestion in general.
@MarkHyde
Жыл бұрын
Having said all of that - I think many OSR authors/creators were shaken to the core with WOTC's OGL behaviour this year and a sudden burst of fresh innovation and creativity was built in spite of it and because of it - I like the idea of your rule book club and its approach of talking about alternative rule book options!! :) Getting more eyes on these books and getting used in games is vital. Looking forward to more parts in the series.
@johnfavaro8008
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video. I played the original D&D back in the day but haven't really gotten any experience with the OSR systems. Will you be doing some sort of comparison at some point? I'm planning on playing Mork Borg at Origins in a few weeks and am looking forward to checking it out.
@zacharygroombridge6511
Жыл бұрын
There are soo many OSR style game systems out there. there are dozens and dozens of them, too many for me to read them all and compare without this book club series becoming an OSR book club. eventually the book club will swing back around and look at other OSR style games, but the aim of this series is to be as broad as possible and to look at as many different kinds of rule book as i can. There are content creators out there that do focus on the OSR, and if this stuff is your jam seek them out! Mork Borg looks so cool, its been the new hotness in the osr community for a while. People love it but I have never played it, and i have a copy on my shelf that i have only skimmed. Its on the list for this series but i dont know when i will get around to it.
@GuillaumeVendette
Жыл бұрын
What is your favorite rpg rule book for a one night game ?
@zacharygroombridge6511
Жыл бұрын
Personally i have had the most fun/success running a game called 'monster Hearts' as a one shot. its a game about teenage monsters in highschool. its fast, intuitive and escalates to a climax pretty constantly in a single session. My experience with it has been a bit diffrent from most people tho becuase i have run single sessions of monster Hearts as a fundraiser for a theater company. Put actors on a stage, Infront of an audience, pretending to be love sick werewolves and that makes for a pretty entertaining couple hours. the average trpg group is not going to be quite as high energy i expect but i think would still have a good one night game. the next rule book club is actually going to be about the apocalypse world system, which happens to be what monster hearts run on. so the next episode may be up your ally
@Jormungandr8
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the in deep answer
@billypratt421
Жыл бұрын
What RPG system is your favorite and why? (I realize the why part could be a huge answer, so what are a couple things it does better than others you've played or makes it more fun?)
@zacharygroombridge6511
Жыл бұрын
Favorite is a tough question, favorite rules? the game have the most fond memories playing? the best book to read? The game i most want to get to the table? Like most people who get into RPG's i have had the most experience with D&D and D&D adjacent games, does that make it my favorite? The longest campaign i ran was in Rogue Trader, I don't think the rules of that game are not very good but i had enough fun with it that despite its flaws my group played it for 4 years and loved it. Probably my favorite campaign ever was a Stars Without Number game, its an old school style scifi space exploration RPG; we spent almost all of each session in spreadsheets figuring out how to make our space shipping company more profitable. It was a great campaign but can i call spreadsheets-the game my favorite? I love reading, "powered by the apocalypse" rule books the most, that rule system is the most creatively inspiring to me, i will read the forwards of those books just for fun or to get me exited to play other games and besides that system is a great way to introduce people to RPG's. I most want to find a group to play "Band of Blades" with, its a dark medival military mercenary game, that book has been on my shelf for a few years but i havent found a group interested in it yet. i could call them all my favorite, and i am sure that as this series continues i will find and read new games that i could also call my favorite. But that is a cop out answer, so if i had to pick something now 'gun to my head'... then i would pick "the quiet year". I love games that just set up people to have an interesting conversation, and "the quiet year" and games like it are just that. A framework to build an engaging conversation between friends for a few hours. no dice, no action, just a collaborative conversation.
@billypratt421
Жыл бұрын
@@zacharygroombridge6511 Wow! That's an extensive list. It definitely gives me some new game systems to explore. Thanks!
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