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Best OSR modules of 2013

Started by Kaiu Keiichi, January 02, 2014, 05:07:55 AM

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Kaiu Keiichi

January 02, 2014, 05:07:55 AM
As I'm gearing up to run my AD&D 1E game in Q2 of 2014, I'm looking for easy to prep and run old school adventures. Share with me the ones you dig. As long as they're OSRIC/1E compatible, it's coolios.
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January 02, 2014, 12:49:42 PM
Is it important that they were released in 2013?
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January 03, 2014, 10:41:43 AM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;720135Is it important that they were released in 2013?

Possibly not, but the limitation might make the thread more interesting and keep it from being the usual recitation.
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January 05, 2014, 10:07:58 PM
Barrowmaze II (and I) are easy to pick up and run while also being great adventures.
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Kaiu Keiichi

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January 06, 2014, 05:04:25 PM
I'm not too uptight with that. But for those here who follow such things, top stuff publushed in 2013 would be nice. I'll take anything good and 1e compatible, however.
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January 06, 2014, 05:43:22 PM
Quote from: Teazia;721078Barrowmaze II (and I) are easy to pick up and run while also being great adventures.

I was fortunate enough to do some artwork for Barrowmaze II.  I have the hardback with the poster map and extras.  It's sweet.

grodog

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January 06, 2014, 07:51:58 PM
Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;721387I'm not too uptight with that. But for those here who follow such things, top stuff publushed in 2013 would be nice.

AFS magazine #2 (ed. Scott Moberly @ Halls of Tizun Thane; technically released at the very end of 2012, this didn't arrive in my mailbox until early 2013; issue #4 was just published at the end of 2013, too)
AS&SH Players' Manual
BarrowMaze I and II by Greg Gillespie (also released late in 2012, I think?)
Dread Saecaroth by James Boney (Old School Road Games)
Night of the Black Swords by Allen Hammack (DieCast Games)

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;721387I'll take anything good and 1e compatible, however.

In alphabetical order, my Top 5 OSR products in general are:

Bottle City by Rob Kuntz (Pied Piper, soon to be reprinted by Black Blade)
F1 The Fane of Poisoned Prophecies by Guy Fullerton (Chaotic Henchmen)
Knockspell magazine (Mythmere Games)
Monsters of Myth (First Edition Society)
OSRIC (perhaps unsuprisingly I prefer the BBP/UA edition)
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#7
January 07, 2014, 01:41:45 AM
Quelong!
Yeah, but who gives a fuck? You? Jibba?

Well congrats. No one else gives a shit, so your arguments are a waste of breath.

Malfi

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January 07, 2014, 08:26:45 AM Last Edit: January 07, 2014, 08:33:26 AM by Malfi
You might want to check this out.
http://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?page_id=844
Not 2013 exactly but possibly useful.
Note that there are quite a few free adventures in these suggestions.

Also good luck with trying this out, it has long been to my to do list, but whenever I think about dming sth other than 3.5 or exalted I have a small panick attack.

sniderman

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January 07, 2014, 10:15:25 AM
I'll recommend Slaughtergrid, but your players better not be too uptight with "pleasurably vile" dungeon-crawling.
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January 10, 2014, 12:11:04 PM
If adventures created for LL, which seems fairly compatible with 1e/OSRIC to me, are ok, then I suggest... this and this.
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January 12, 2014, 04:57:32 AM
Quote from: Planet Algol;721484Quelong!

On a read-thru this impressed me greatly, and its on the list of things I want to run when I can.

I'm in a Barrowmaze game on the player side, and we've gotten about a year of play (granted, with some digressions) out of it without yet clearing it.

If "adventures" includes dungeons, I'll add Dyson's Delves to the list.  A couple of the keyed dungeons look cool.
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