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Knave 2e
The second edition of Knave is coming to Kickstarter on May 2nd. Make sure to sign up here to get notified as soon as it goes live.
I’ve recently made a couple sneak preview videos showing off the interior of the book here and here and revealing some of the special add-on products. Professor Dungeon Master even did a flip through!
Reviews
A user on Reddit describes the experience of playing Luke Gearing’s massive OSR setting Wolves Upon the Coast.
It's got the wonder of OD&D and the campaign-level ambition of AD&D. It pulls it off with aplomb. My players have visited (not explored, mind you, just visited) less than 10% of the map. We've been playing weekly for 8 months. We might play for many years more.
Red Cog's Game Completion Log describes the experience of playing Break!!
Bob Worldbuilder explains the appeal of the Knave/Into the Odd hack Cairn.
In a companion video, Baron De Ropp demonstrates how he uses Maze Rats to rapidly prep sessions.
FigCat has made a list of 100 OSR modules, ranked by how popular they are online. There’s also a list of of the top 100 OSR systems. The lists were apparently compiled by hand by sifting through hundreds of forums, subreddits, and lists.
Dungeon23
Quadra has some really great dungeon work over on Mastodon. Love how the room descriptions are right next to the rooms.
Work on the Apocalypse Archive at Bearded Devil has reached room 42.
Gaming News
Paizo releases an early draft of the ORC license for public comment.
Wizards of the Coast found out that a YouTuber accidentally received a set of Magic: The Gathering cards that hadn’t officially be released yet. So they sent a group of Pinkerton private investigators to his house to take the cards back.
Tabletop Minions interviews wargaming creators at AdeptiCon on the future of wargaming.
Worldbuilding
Anodyne Printware has an animated planet generator for Mothership.
Skerples examines how sensors might work in a scifi setting.
Elf Maids and Octopi has a great list of 100 local weirdos and creeps.
Patrick Stuart rolls up a Chaos Champion using the classic Realms of Chaos sourcebook for Warhammer.
Archons March on has 20 drugs.
Visk (AKA intro, gutsy, gutgab, biologue)
A synaesthetically-tasty sort of yoghurt fermented with bacterial cultures scraped from certain iridescent star-jellies. Awakens all the nerve-clusters in your body that aren't your brain to sentience, or at least makes you aware of their pre-existing sentience. Lets you hold telepathic conversations with your liver, kidneys, and so on, enabling self-diagnosis of subtle medical problems, have entertaining internal banter, and take a backseat in your own body if you take too much, while another organ of yours gets the driver's seat.
A reddit user shares the class illustrations from the Japanese version of B/X D&D.
Tony DiTerlizzi does a new Planescape illustration.
Theory and Advice
Goblin Punch: The Underclock: Fixing the Random Encounter
Knight at the Opera: The Genres the OSE Can’t Do
Explorers Design: Into the Odd Exhibit | How to Layout Your RPG
Melancholies and Mirth: Apologism For The Thief Class
Ranger Lemure: Say NO to Clerics
Augury Ignored: Write That Down!
Grognardia: The Ultimate Campaign and Not Yet Ultimate Campaigns
Alchemist Nocturne: Five VS three VS one: Saving throws
House DM: Why Telegraphing Danger Improved My DMing
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