Choosing an OSR Game: DCC vs S&W vs LotFP?

grodog · January 29, 2019, 10:49:56 PM

Quote from: Melan;1072760OSRIC is rather good as an AD&D substitute, although the real thing is still the original books - OSRIC does not replicate Gary's masterwork, and doesn't try to.

Curious about your meaning here, Melan: do you mean that OSRIC doesn't attempt to replicate Gygax's prose, or something else?

Allan.

Razor 007 · January 30, 2019, 12:00:07 AM

Quote from: grodog;1072815Curious about your meaning here, Melan: do you mean that OSRIC doesn't attempt to replicate Gygax's prose, or something else?

Allan.

He probably means that the majority of the text found in the DMG, isn't included in OSRIC. Gary's copious words of wisdom didn't make the cut.

Melan · January 30, 2019, 03:37:30 AM

Yeah - OSRIC gives you the AD&D rules, and even a neat amount of support material (for instance, good dungeon stocking tables), but lacks the digressions and advice from Gary's work. This is the nature of the beast.

Brad · January 30, 2019, 11:02:18 AM

Quote from: Melan;1072829Yeah - OSRIC gives you the AD&D rules, and even a neat amount of support material (for instance, good dungeon stocking tables), but lacks the digressions and advice from Gary's work. This is the nature of the beast.

When you read the DMG, you can actually tell it was written from the perspective of someone who had been running games for almost ten years; it definitely wasn't a bunch of advice from some isolated ivory tower. Even if you disagree with what the DMG says, at least it's founded in reality. I cannot say the same when I read advice in more modern games...sometimes I wonder if they actually play tested, or just wrote the rules and arbitrarily decided it'd all work out at the table.

cranebump · January 31, 2019, 09:24:45 AM

Quote from: rgalex;1072730We play 2x a week. We have an ongoing campaign session and a "let's try this" session. The ongoing campaign is something that we'll likely play for a year. The other one is something we'll play for 1-3 months depending on how we like it, just to try something different. Sometimes it's vastly different from what we typically play, sometimes it's just a different system to see what it's like or what changes/gimmicks it has from the usual.

The M:YZ game is what we're currently giving a shot. We've been playing for almost 3 months now and people just wanted to give something else a go.

I've heard of ACKS, read a bit about it here after the TBP kerfuffle. I might give this a look too now that you reminded me of it.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

RPGPundit · February 03, 2019, 07:10:02 PM

Of the OP choices, DCC is by far the most FUN to play, but you have to like your game gonzo.

If you're looking for a more serious game, well, then you should use one of the others. Though frankly, you should probably go for Lion & Dragon instead of either of those. Well, definitely instead of LotFP. L&D was created to be better than LotFP.
As for S&W, you could play that if what you want is something practically IDENTICAL to original D&D. If you don't want novelty. Otherwise, Lion & Dragon.

Oh, and if you do choose DCC, check out the RPGPundit Presents supplements, there's tons of them (all the "Last Sun" ones) which are made for gonzo craziness from my DCC campaign.

Choosing an OSR Game: DCC vs S&W vs LotFP?

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