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How Some Factions of the OSR Actually Erase the Past They Claim to Treasure

Started by RPGPundit, June 07, 2017, 10:34:53 PM

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Crimhthan

#300
August 09, 2017, 03:40:08 PM
Quote from: estar;981520However people don't run their campaigns like you do and therein lies your contribution to the hobby if you have the interest or time. And it OK if you have neither. But if you want to influence the hobby there is no better way to show how your ideas work. As opposed to lecturing people or acting like the proverbial old guy on the porch yelling at the neighborhood kids.

I am taking the time to write this because it obvious you have a point of view you are passionate about. You also like to interact with the hobby from the history of participating on various forums.

Finally from your posts it is evident  that you are frustrated not only the state of the hobby but how the "powers that be" control the hobby. Well it happens that the way publishing works in the hobby lends itself well to people with frustrated visions. With your blog, (The Great OD&D blog) print on demand, and the various store fronts everything is there for you to write something to show how it is to be done and distribute it widely.

And doesn't have to be a retro-clone of OD&D either.  There several successful works out there that are not complete rule sets.  By doing this you will demonstrate that you are serious, willing to put the work in, and whatever you earn will be concrete feedback about what people think of your writing.

Now these are good points. I have no problem with any of these and agree with most of it.

As you can tell from this thread Seven-Voyages-of-Zylarthen-Champions-of-Zed-and-Treasure-Hunters-possibly-more and from my blog, I am not a writer, not good enough to publish in a hard copy. I am not ashamed to admit that.

I have ideas, such as, telling Sauna who hates paladins several years ago to stop thinking of them as goody two shoes and think about them as Solomon Kane. Those things arise out of conversation that brings up things we do IMC. I am not sure how I would even begin to go about expand on ideas to a published document.
Always remember, as a first principle of all D&D: playing BtB is not now, never was and never will be old school.

Rules lawyers have missed the heart and soul of old school D&D.

Munchkins are not there to have fun, munchkins are there to make sure no one else does.

Nothing is more dishonorable, than being a min-maxer munchkin rules lawyer.

OD&D game #4000 was played on September 2, 2017.

These are my original creation

Mordred Pendragon

#301
August 09, 2017, 06:08:43 PM
Crimthan, I wish you had the time to play in one of my old-school campaigns. Especially the campaign for Vampire: The Masquerade and the Sailor Moon campaign I will be running in the coming months. All of it run in the old-school OD&D sandbox style.
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Dumarest

#303
August 09, 2017, 11:07:55 PM
"Powers that be" control the RPG hobby? :rolleyes:

Can they please put the kibosh on more D&D knockoffs with alliterative titles?

estar

#304
August 10, 2017, 12:45:27 AM
Quote from: Crimhthan;981525As you can tell from this thread Seven-Voyages-of-Zylarthen-Champions-of-Zed-and-Treasure-Hunters-possibly-more and from my blog, I am not a writer, not good enough to publish in a hard copy. I am not ashamed to admit that.

It take practice and time, so is why I emphasize having the interest and of course the free time to keep writing a little each day.

For myself, I had to overcome the fact that since I was six I been 50% deaf. It was likely from a bout with scarlet fever but whatever happened go into language center. I was pretty much a A or B student in every subject except for English composition. Also had to get exempted out of the foreign language requirement in college as it was taking me three times as long to slog through. Instead they gave me linguistic courses including technical writing. You can still see a bit of that in my forum replies where I have weird misspelling and dropped word and even phrases. Yet I manage to have written a few things that people seem to like.


Quote from: Crimhthan;981525I have ideas, such as, telling Sauna who hates paladins several years ago to stop thinking of them as goody two shoes and think about them as Solomon Kane. Those things arise out of conversation that brings up things we do IMC. I am not sure how I would even begin to go about expand on ideas to a published document.

For that just look at what I did in the Majestic Wilderland supplements. You can get a taste of it from my basic rules especially the cleric section. But what I did for a Myrmidon of Set. The overall description came in two parts. The first was in the class description, the second what later in the book when I described various religions. Combined it gave a good picture of what a Myrmidon is and how it function in my campaign. The general outline should work for describing your take. I created a PDF with the two section cut out from the supplement.

Crimhthan

#305
August 10, 2017, 08:58:56 AM
That was an interesting read estar and I see what you mean in your examples. Thank you for the links.
Always remember, as a first principle of all D&D: playing BtB is not now, never was and never will be old school.

Rules lawyers have missed the heart and soul of old school D&D.

Munchkins are not there to have fun, munchkins are there to make sure no one else does.

Nothing is more dishonorable, than being a min-maxer munchkin rules lawyer.

OD&D game #4000 was played on September 2, 2017.

These are my original creation

Willmark

#306
August 10, 2017, 08:59:06 AM
Quote from: Dumarest;981588"Powers that be" control the RPG hobby? :rolleyes:

Can they please put the kibosh on more D&D knockoffs with alliterative titles?

I found that amusing as well.

Crimhthan

#307
August 10, 2017, 02:39:47 PM
Quote from: Doc Sammy;981546Crimthan, I wish you had the time to play in one of my old-school campaigns. Especially the campaign for Vampire: The Masquerade and the Sailor Moon campaign I will be running in the coming months. All of it run in the old-school OD&D sandbox style.

Don't know anything about those (I just realized you are on the other forum), but if you start an online game or post about an offline game, send me a link and I will be happy to take a look.
Always remember, as a first principle of all D&D: playing BtB is not now, never was and never will be old school.

Rules lawyers have missed the heart and soul of old school D&D.

Munchkins are not there to have fun, munchkins are there to make sure no one else does.

Nothing is more dishonorable, than being a min-maxer munchkin rules lawyer.

OD&D game #4000 was played on September 2, 2017.

These are my original creation

Mordred Pendragon

#308
August 10, 2017, 04:41:58 PM
Quote from: Crimhthan;981714Don't know anything about those (I just realized you are on the other forum), but if you start an online game or post about an offline game, send me a link and I will be happy to take a look.

I definitely will!
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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