Which OSR games have you actually run or played in?
Blood & Treasure 1st Edition (2nd edition has the single saving throw nonsense, so I refused to "upgrade")
Warriors of the Red Planet
Scarlet Heroes. I wonder if there'll be a second edition.
Labyrinth Lord
Swords & Wizardry
Cepheus Engine
EDIT: I forgot OSRIC and Basic Fantasy
OSRIC and Castles & Crusades as a player.
Labyrinth Lord as a player and as a referee.
Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game, X-plorers and Dark Albion as a referee.
Hackmaster 4E (the only D&Dlike I can tolerate descending AC in)
Castles & Crusades (will always use this to play 1E at this point)
Labyrinth Lord (didn't like it)
Swords Wizardry Whitebox (my favourite way to play old school D&D)
DCC (I love it, but rarely run it anymore)
T&T Mythical 6th Edition (it's a shame when the best version of the game is a pirated one)
Basic Fantasy (great, but overshadowed by all of the above)
Encounter Critical (two of the most memorable game sessions we ever had)
Hmm...
Castles & Crusades, if it counts
OSRIC
Labyrinth Lord
Mutant Future
White Star
Are the ones I've run. Mostly I use bits & bobs of OSR games in actual D&D games - Classic, 1e, 3e, PF & especially 5e. Tried a bit with 4e but they don't mix well.
I've played Labyrinth Lord as a player.
ACKS - though one I'd done some hacking of to make it fit a historical setting.
Have run the following- Basic Fantasy, Castles & Crusades, and Swords & Wizardry.
Labyrinth Lord, 10 or so sessions (as DM)
ACKS, 25+ sessions and counting, in an ongoing campaign (as DM)
Bucket list (as player; as a DM I'm pretty happy with ACKS and don't want to run something else at the moment): DCC, Encounter Critical (even a 1 shot!), and something Tekumel-related (although depending on the observer and/or system, a Tekumel game could be considered just O rather than OSR)
Does OD&D count? Then loads of games with that pre 1980 or thereabouts.
Recently a few Swords and Wizardry games have been played and I've run a lot of DCC. I've also run a few EPT games using either the original rules or the Petal hack recent ruleset (although that may not count as OSR).
Played Labyrinth Lord, ran ACKS. Short list, really.
Really though, I could have done the ACKS game with almost any OSR or simply old school ruleset, I just would have had a longer list of houserules. So I'm coming to think ruleset is the least important and least interesting part of the OSR. Much of the action in the OSR has always been in blogs and google+ posts. Even in published products, I find adventures and settings more interesting than rule sets.
Castles & Crusades
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Mutant Crawl Classics
Arrows of Indra
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
These are the games I know I played by the book. When I play OSR games (usually C&C at the core), I mix and match stuff from basically everywhere.
A short list: Adventurer, Conqueror, King (have played over 20 sessions, and am playing currently), Stars Without Number (ran a half dozen, played in about 20 sessions), Other Dust (played just once). Not including original old school games here.
When I get the Old School itch my go to is 1e Palladium Fantasy (and there are enough Palladium fans in the area that getting a group together isn't hard), but I've done BECMI and every edition of AD&D up through Skills & Powers.
I've not touched any of the new OSR stuff because my old books are still fully functional.
Quote from: Chris24601;1032951When I get the Old School itch my go to is 1e Palladium Fantasy (and there are enough Palladium fans in the area that getting a group together isn't hard), but I've done BECMI and every edition of AD&D up through Skills & Powers.
I've not touched any of the new OSR stuff because my old books are still fully functional.
HO!!!!
D&D 5th Edition. ;)
I've been using Lamentations of the Flame Princess
I've also been running one-shots using Traveller Books 1, 2, and 3 at local conventions lately. While more Old School than OSR I thought I'd mention it because running original Traveller requires all the stuff Matt Finch talked about in Old School Primer. When Marc Miller said in an interview he had a copy of D&D (Volumes I-III) when he wrote Traveller I wasn't surprised. Despite the introduction of skills, the game expects the Referee to run the game like early RPG play.
Off the top of my head...
DCC,
Swords and Wizardry,
Crypts and Things,
Fantastic Heroes and Witchery.
For non-D&D OSR, if people accept that there is such a thing, I've run a ton of BoL and Openquest.
Quote from: RunningLaser;1032953HO!!!!
Hey now, I only recieved compensation for running it the one time. One. Time. :D
Technically none because those books are D&D supplements. I use the Labyrinth Lord and assorted other Gobliniod stuff with the RC, and when I play in the old AD&D 1e game, I often just bring the OSRIC hardcover with me because it's convenient.
Legends of Time & Space
Legends of the Ancient World
Quote from: Skarg;1032988Legends of Time & Space
Legends of the Ancient World
Represent!
Swords and Wizardry (Core and WB)
Beyond the Wall
Labyrinth Lord
Mutant Future
Heroes and Other Worlds
Legends of the Ancient World ( first game I ever ran)
This thread has reminded me that I have many more that I have never gotten around to playing or running.
Quote from: Hermes Serpent;1032944Does OD&D count? Then loads of games with that pre 1980 or thereabouts.
No. The whole point of the R in OSR is that it's old games remade as new, not just old games played anew.
Quote from: Krimson;1032984Technically none because those books are D&D supplements. I use the Labyrinth Lord and assorted other Gobliniod stuff with the RC, and when I play in the old AD&D 1e game, I often just bring the OSRIC hardcover with me because it's convenient.
Certainly yes, lots of using the Osric or whatever material to play D&D with (or Mutant future and GW) for when we need extra books or such. Otherwise Adventurer, Conqueror, King, Beyond the Wall, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon Crawl Classic, Stars Without Number.
None. For most of them, I think D&D Rules Compendium would be closer to what I want, and I've got that.
I do want to try DCC at some point, but it hasn't yet quite managed to bubble high enough on the games to play priority list. It's made it to third choice on two separate occasions. So it is only a matter of time.
Labyrinth Lord
Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures
Mutant Future
Mutant Crawl ClassicsCrypts 7 Things
OpenQuest
the new Pacesetter system games from Goblinoid
Under the Moons of Soon
Mazes & Minotaurs
But mostly when I want Old School gaming I just play my old school games.
Quote from: Willie the Duck;1033014Certainly yes, lots of using the Osric or whatever material to play D&D with (or Mutant future and GW) for when we need extra books or such. Otherwise Adventurer, Conqueror, King, Beyond the Wall, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon Crawl Classic, Stars Without Number.
Oh wait... I have played Stars Without Number. :D Yeah, I mostly started buying OSR stuff because it's basically new material for older games. I'd like to try DCC though it's hard enough to find people who want to play D&D.
I've played/run Astonishing Swordsman and Sorcerers of Hyperboria. That's the only OSR game I would consider applicable.
I've run tons of OSRIC content, but using the 1E AD&D rules.
Basic Fantasy
Swords&Wizardry Complete
Blood&Treasure 1ed
Dark Dungeons ( use it together with BECM or RC)
Basic Fantasy
Swords & Wizardry Whitebox
S&W Complete
Labyrinth Lord
Fantastic Heroes & Witchery
Whitebox
Blueholme
And probably a few more I've totally forgotten...
DCC
LotFP
SWN
Run and played lots of:
Astonishing Swordsman & Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AS&SH)
Swords & Wizardry White Box
I have used OSRIC many, many times, but more as a supplement to 1E than as a stand-alone game.
Scarlet Heroes: (ran it 1 on 1 for my daughter for a while)
Stars without Number: (Running 1st and 2nd edition over several years)
Other Dust: (used with SWN, also ran a few dedicated Other Dust sessions)
Godbound: (Recently been running this at an open table RPG club)
Silent Legions: (Ran a few one off sessions for friends for a Horror movie and RPG night)
Does Palladium count? It certainly feels OSR. I played it a bit many years ago.
Used Labyrinth Lord content in other RPGs
There's probably others, but that's it off the top of my head.
Have run:
C&C
BFRPG
AS&SH
Have played:
OSRIC
Swords & Wizardry
LL + AEC
Mutant Future
I usually run the original/older games, and make use of "OSR" materials as resources/supplements for my games, rather than as games to be played. For example, I like OSRIC, and I'll happily use its supplements and adventures, but I'd use them in my AD&D game. Same goes for S&W and original D&D. Et cetera. Back when I ran C&C and BFRPG I was trying them out, but I ended up just going back to TSR D&D. A notable exception to that overall trend is AS&SH: I like that enough, and it's integrated with its setting enough, to run it as its own thing.
ACKS (for a very short time, though)
Backswords and Bucklers
Crimson Blades
DCC
Dungeon Questing
Epees et Sorcelleries 2e
Low Fantasy RPG
Scarlet Heroes
Spears of the Dawn (for a very limited time)
Spellcraft and Swordplay
Stars Without Numbers
Fantasy Craft (an OSR variant of 3.5, which is arguably much better than the predecessor)
Pathfinder (a well-known OSR variant of 3.5)
At least those are the ones I remember;).
ACKS (for a very short time, though)
Backswords and Bucklers
Beyond the Wall
Crimson Blades
DCC
Epees et Sorcelleries 2e
Fantasy Craft (an OSR variant of 3.5, which is arguably much better than the predecessor)
LotFP (very limited duration)
Low Fantasy RPG
Nightmares Underneath
Pathfinder (a well-known OSR variant of 3.5)
Scarlet Heroes
Spears of the Dawn (for a very limited time)
Spellcraft and Swordplay
Stars Without Numbers
Tales & Legends
At least those are the ones I remember;).
Someone mentioned 'mixing and matching', which is a good point. If you count main/primary system I've played hardly any OSR game at all (LotFP, DCC, Arrows of Indra, Dark Albion/Lion & Dragon, and that's pretty much it). But I've used dozens and dozens of OSR books in those few campaigns, because I think a big part of the OSR is the cross-compatibility it all has.
Castles & Crusades
Swords & Wizardry
Crimson Blades
Tombs & Terrors
Woodland Warriors
Blood & Bullets
Go Fer Yer Gun
Medieval Mysteries
Ancient Mysteries & Lost treasures
Sabres & Witchery
Black Books: Tomes of the Outer Dark
Castles & Crusades
Basic Fantasy
Swords & Wizardry core
OSRIC
Blue book of dangers & dweomers
I mixed OSR and original material quite freely
Ran:- Adventurer, Conqueror, King (ACKS)
- Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AS&SH)
- Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC)
- Fantastic Heroes & Witchery (FHW)
- Stars Without Number (SWN)
- Hackmaster Basic (HMB) & Hackmaster 5e (HM5)
- Swords & Wizardry (S&W) and Labyrinth Lord (LL) - although if I want Basic I usually use Moldvay
- Spears of the Dawn (SoD) - Love this game. Major project I'm working on when I have time is a Hyperborean Black Kingdoms campaign with Mythras incorporating the SoD ideas.
Played:- Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AS&SH)
- Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC)
- Stars Without Number (SWN)
- Hackmaster Basic (HMB) & Hackmaster 5e (HM5)
Read then Looted and Pillaged:Beyond the Wall (BtW)
Lamentations of the Flame Princess (LotFP) - I usually use their modules with other systems.
I own more than I've played.
I've run Labyrinth Lord, Basic Fantasy RPG, S&W and Black Hack.
I'd list Freebooters on the Frontier, but pretty sure I'd catch flak from some folks.
Run and Played:
Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea
Played:
LotFP
Swords and Wizardry
DCC
I'm not 100% sure which games are OSR, but judging by the lists others have posted, then I have to say none of them.
Played:
DCC
LotFP
S&W
LL
SWN
Mazes & Minotaurs
Run:
LotFP
DCC
Want to play:
Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea, though most of my knowledge and desire to play it comes from the name and cover images... and being a fan of Clark Ashton Smith's stories.
Quote from: CRKrueger;1033308Spears of the Dawn (SoD) - Love this game. Major project I'm working on when I have time is a Hyperborean Black Kingdoms campaign with Mythras incorporating the SoD ideas.
That sounds most excellent!
I've been reading Nyambe, with Spears of the Dawn next on the list... and wishing for more African fantasy.
Quote from: Simon W;1033243Go Fer Yer Gun
What the fuck is this?
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033476What the fuck is this?
OSR wild west game by Simon Washbourne.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033476What the fuck is this?
Nice way to ask a question
Quote from: Simon W;1033496Nice way to ask a question
It's Pundit:). That's part of his "schtick".
Piece of advice, it helps, when reading his posts, to imagine him like someone who's cossplaying a character from a spaghetti Western;).
Lamentations of the Flame Princess (longest campaign) and Sword & Wizardry White Box (mostly one-shots), but I don't run OSR or D&D based games anymore (nothing wrong with the games, just wanted a change of pace).
Ran a short campaign of Castles & Crusades. Ran several encounters using Starships & Spacemen, but reskinned as Colonial Marines.
Player in games of in LotFP, and FH&W/Dark Albion.
Planning an ACK game right now. Trying to get my head around the system they use for hit throws. It's just different enough from THAC0 or a base attack bonus to make me throw one wheel off the rail. I must be getting old.
I may try LotFP at some point. I want to pick up Lion & Dragon and give it a read, since I have all the Dark Albion books. Otherwise, I may use the retro-clone of Warhammer, Zweihander.
Castles and Crusades
Dark Albion/Fantastic Heroes and Witchery
Lion and Dragon
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Mazes and Minotaurs
27th Edition Platemail (cheating...I wrote it!)
Balrogs and Bagginses (...and this one as well)
I don't count Swords and Wizardry, Labyrinth Lord and other stuff that is just re-branded OD+D, BD+D or 1E, but if you do add a couple of those
Quote from: Larsdangly;103359327th Edition Platemail (cheating...I wrote it!)
Balrogs and Bagginses (...and this one as well)
Links and pimping!
Quote from: Spinachcat;1033611Links and pimping!
I'll have to dig them up and re post them. I've always been kind of conservative about spreading around stuff that is on shaky ground, IP wise, so I prefer to just send a google doc link to individuals who express interest rather than put up a permanent site.
ACKS
Labyrinth Lord
DCC
Torchbearer
All fine I guess, but not what I want from my gaming these days.
Ran a campaign that was a Labyrinth Lord/Lamentations mix, with some Lion and Dragon at the end. Bit of Al Qadim as well.
Quote from: Simon W;1033496Nice way to ask a question
Hey, it sounded like a western game, an OSR western game, and I'd never heard of it. I don't know if you're aware but I'm quite the fan of the wild west (currently running a campaign in its 2nd year set in the historical wild west using Aces & Eights). I was surprised I didn't know (or didn't remember) this game's existence.
It's the kind of thing I'd be happy to receive a review-copy of.
Quote from: AsenRG;1033499Piece of advice, it helps, when reading his posts, to imagine him like someone who's cossplaying a character from a spaghetti Western;).
Given my tastes, a better comparison might be to Tombstone, Deadwood, or (obviously) Gangs of New York.
Quote from: Larsdangly;1033670I'll have to dig them up and re post them. I've always been kind of conservative about spreading around stuff that is on shaky ground, IP wise, so I prefer to just send a google doc link to individuals who express interest rather than put up a permanent site.
If you're not selling them, Fair Use laws stop 99% of the noise. At most, you'd get a C&D, but given that people had pay-to-play LotR MUDs back in the day that popped around, a free PnP RPG PDF isn't going to raise eyebrows.
IP laws look scary on paper, but Fair Use takes the piss out of them, especially if you're not making a dime. And don't even get me started on parody protections!
Personally, I'm stunned how much cash you can make off using other people's IP using a parody umbrella.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033917Hey, it sounded like a western game, an OSR western game, and I'd never heard of it. I don't know if you're aware but I'm quite the fan of the wild west (currently running a campaign in its 2nd year set in the historical wild west using Aces & Eights). I was surprised I didn't know (or didn't remember) this game's existence.
It's the kind of thing I'd be happy to receive a review-copy of.
There's been plenty of posts on this very site about it so I'm surprised. It's been around since forever and its only a buck on RPGNow. Its a little dated now (its actually based off Castles & Crusades which means you can easily mix and match it - in fact my own Tombs & Terrors and Medieval Mysteries are even more compatible than C&C) but people still seem to like it, on the whole. I made it unavailable for about 6 months a couple of years ago but enough people contacted me to ask where they could get a copy that I made it available again.
Quote from: Simon W;1033952There's been plenty of posts on this very site about it so I'm surprised. It's been around since forever and its only a buck on RPGNow. Its a little dated now (its actually based off Castles & Crusades which means you can easily mix and match it - in fact my own Tombs & Terrors and Medieval Mysteries are even more compatible than C&C) but people still seem to like it, on the whole. I made it unavailable for about 6 months a couple of years ago but enough people contacted me to ask where they could get a copy that I made it available again.
Well, it's possible I just forgot about it. I think that an OSR western game could be interesting. Though to a certain extent Aces & Eights is just close enough to D&D that it may have that covered.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1034302Well, it's possible I just forgot about it. I think that an OSR western game could be interesting. Though to a certain extent Aces & Eights is just close enough to D&D that it may have that covered.
There's also Blood & Bullets, which is freely downloadable at my website (follow link below)
Simon makes good games. I have copies of almost all of them, including both the western-themed games. Wish I could comment on how they fare in play, but I've never had a group into cowboys (being from Texas, you'd think maybe...but no).:-)
Anyhoo, I'll end with the obvious gushes: Barbarians of Lemuria is a classic, and Supers! is still my go-to for superhero campaigns. Keep up the good work, sir.
Quote from: Spinachcat;1033920Personally, I'm stunned how much cash you can make off using other people's IP using a parody umbrella.
The first OSR I bought was Starships and Spacemen so yeah... :D
Quote from: cranebump;1034355Simon makes good games. I have copies of almost all of them, including both the western-themed games. Wish I could comment on how they fare in play, but I've never had a group into cowboys (being from Texas, you'd think maybe...but no).:-)
Anyhoo, I'll end with the obvious gushes: Barbarians of Lemuria is a classic, and Supers! is still my go-to for superhero campaigns. Keep up the good work, sir.
Honestly, and this is a side tangent, I would be surprised if Texans were into cowboys. It's a stereotype that a lot of people I know from the South claim is played out. You'd have better luck with those of the East or West coast, from what I've been told.
At least, that's been my experience.
Hmm, Go Fer Yer Gun looks cool though. I'll have to figure out how to swing that one.
Quote from: Christopher Brady;1034367Honestly, and this is a side tangent, I would be surprised if Texans were into cowboys. It's a stereotype that a lot of people I know from the South claim is played out. You'd have better luck with those of the East or West coast, from what I've been told.
At least, that's been my experience.
Hmm, Go Fer Yer Gun looks cool though. I'll have to figure out how to swing that one.
Well, there are plenty of cowboy hat and boot wearing sum'guns back home, more so, the further you get away from Austin. I grew up with the type, but it as mostly for show. Except for a few actual cowboys (people who ran ranches), most of my friends and classmates weren't into that stuff. I know I do not qualify as an exemplar. I don't have an accent, I don't wear the hats, I find the boots uncomfortable, the kicker dancing boring, the hot weather absolutely awful, and, the politics, for the last couple of decades, ridiculous (we have stupid ass governors--there's no way around it).
It's all good, though. I ended up moving to a fairly remote area of Colorado. Wish I'd done it years ago. Of course, Texans, some of them my friends back there, will say, "don't let the door slap you in the ass on your way out," but I fergive 'em. They jest don' know any better.:-)
P.S. No knock on the people there. Most of them are nice, my horrible, racist relatives, aside.
C&C was my first, then I dabbled with Labyrinth Lord and Swords & Wizardry: White Box for a few years before I switched over to the LBBs.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033918Given my tastes, a better comparison might be to Tombstone, Deadwood, or (obviously) Gangs of New York.
Maybe, Pundit, but I'm sharing the trick that worked for me. And spaghetti Westerns are how I did it;)!
The Black Hack, White Hack, Into the Odd, LL, and S&W. I did get to play in a short one-shot of DCC at Gencon last year.
I've run a ton of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG at this point.