What OSR book have you made the most use of without ever actually running it?  That is, where you've used material from it in other OSR games or campaigns?

Probably Mutant Future. I've used the mutation tables and some of the gear.

A "monstrous compendium" .doc from S&W that I downloaded from somewhere gets a lot of clicks.

WFRP 1ed Enemy Within/Shadows Over Bogenhafen. Used the 2 lists of NPCs in the back (and the stats for the wizard baddy in the adventure just a couple pages before) for two long running non-Old World campaigns, plus the map of Bogenhafen was great to base a campaign out of before I started making my own maps.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1054447What OSR book have you made the most use of without ever actually running it?  That is, where you've used material from it in other OSR games or campaigns?

Not OSR but 5e (O5R?) - I used large amounts of "Streets of Zobeck" in my Wilderlands 5e game, putting bits in various different towns around my campaign area.

I mostly use OSR adventures, so they just get plonked into my campaign settings. I only use OSRIC in OSRIC game, S&W in S&W game. I used tons of Basic Fantasy RPG stuff in my Mentzer Classic D&D campaign. Obviously setting specific elements get changed, but I used the new BFRPG monsters from the monster book. Recently been using 'Morgansfort & Beyond' set in Wilderlands just south of the City State.

For me, curiously, I'd say it's probably Hulks & Horrors (for my gonzo stuff, where I want to include sci-fi stuff), and Yoon-Suin (for weird locales and as a kind of weird-land supplement for Arrows of Indra).

Quote from: RPGPundit;1054967For me, curiously, I'd say it's probably Hulks & Horrors (for my gonzo stuff, where I want to include sci-fi stuff)

Yes, H&H is great and I bought a copy with plans to use for White Star. Since the White Star game ended early I might just run H&H proper though.

Quote from: S'mon;1054978Yes, H&H is great and I bought a copy with plans to use for White Star. Since the White Star game ended early I might just run H&H proper though.

Yes, it was a great game. Pity that the designer of H&H was such a dumbass.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1055105Pity that the designer of H&H was such a dumbass.

How so? Did I miss some drama?

I think the author sort of blamed the audience for the game not hitting the goals envisioned.  Oh, and the author promoted his kickstarter on forums and whatnot that had a no advertising policy (or just posted them in the wrong places on forums that are fine with it) and then cried when the posts were moved, closed or deleted.  Then the blaming the gaming community for being a bunch of sexists and racists and the usual smearing of gamers for being the wrong sort of people started.

http://www.bedroomwallpress.com/2014/12/yes-im-retired.html

QuoteAs well, I have found over the last couple of years, that the online RPG scene has become an increasingly toxic environment which I no longer wished to have any part of. Book burnings, harassment, racism, sexism, and all manner of other ugly behaviors came to define the part of the industry I'd found myself part of, while the other parts of the community had made it abundantly clear they weren't interested in my being part of that either.

Hulks & Horrors is an excellent game are a really useful book for lots of campaigns that want to add a sci-fi or sci-fantasy element.  And probably more stuff too.

It's just sort of sad that the author went a bit loopy and started the blame and smear game when his efforts didn't meet his goals.

Quote from: NathanIW;1058568url]http://www.bedroomwallpress.com/2014/12/yes-im-retired.html[/url]

He seems to have changed gender since 2014, too. Oh well.

Quote from: S'mon;1058578He seems to have changed gender since 2014, too. Oh well.

Didn't know that. Somehow not surprised.