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Other Games, Development, & Campaigns => Other Games => Topic started by: Trond on November 03, 2023, 12:01:02 AM

Title: Anyone played pre-D&D Braunstein?
Post by: Trond on November 03, 2023, 12:01:02 AM
I was just wondering what this game is like. From what I hear, it could be considered the first in which roleplaying "broke out" more or less spontaneously.
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/139125/Barons-of-Braunstein
Title: Re: Anyone played pre-D&D Braunstein?
Post by: Spinachcat on November 04, 2023, 06:29:01 PM
Back in the ancient day of the 80s when chicks had a vagina instead of a penis, I would attend the PacifiCon convention at the Dunfey Hotel which looked like a Disney castle. They had a crew of guys who built a YUGE minis setup and everyone played a character using AD&D (+/- house rules) and it was most awesome. I remember a dozen players per session and it went all weekend.

It was a free for all of exploration, looting and murder. A true slice of heaven.

I didn't even know it was a "Braunstein" until I read about that on an OSR blog nigh 20 years ago.