Hello to all Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic Refs, DMs, GMs and players of D&D and other RPGs, the series of highlighting some UnSung Heroes of the OSR World! continues because I did receive nominations of blogs that belong on that list and with your help I will receive more and go on to highlight additional blogs and resources.
Again in no particular order, this is not about who is best, but about letting you know who some of the creative people are that others have found useful to their games, their campaigns and to spurring on their creativity.
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully . . . wherein Paul Gorman plays with ideas for old-school fantasy roleplaying games. This blog has been around since 2010 and yet I did not see it until very recently (following links to links to links as I sometimes do and I am happy that it was nominated). This blog has 385 posts over that time but has been relatively quiet the last couple of years which is why it is a bit under the radar. Just one example of what he has done is this Retro-Clone Comparison Chart v0.6 that he first created back in July of 2010. He also has "A Bunch of Crap for Old-School Fantasy Roleplaying Games. The Devil Ghost blog is temporarilty down, but our software and publications are still available. The link on the blog does not work, but these links do work. I have spent some time digging through the posts on the main blog and was really pleased with what I found.
Dungeon of Signs (Gus L.) and has been around since 2012 with 474 posts and has also been relatively quiet the past two years. He covers a wide range of topics and I have enjoyed immensely the 20 or so that I have read so far. In addition, he has the follow pages that you can visit:
- PDFs to download
- Obelisk of Forgotten Memory
- ASE G+ Game THURS night 6:30 PST
- ASE home Campaign Play Reports
- Classic Module Reviews - The B Series
- Tomb of the Rocket Men
I have already found this site to be useful and I expect that many of you will also! In addition, there is the project that he calls a retro-clone of sorts. HMS APPOLYON PLAYERS GUIDE PART 1 - Combat and Exploration and here is the Link to the Guide.
Halfling's Luck by James Spahn: This blog has been around since 2014 and has 123 posts and appears on tracks to double the number of posts this year to have more posts that the first two years combined. This six winners of the 12 Days of OSR Christmas and gave out some really nifty prizes. A lot of good things on this blog and I have just barely started to scratch the surface. This blog has a number of products reviews and to top that off he wrote The Hero's Journey Fantasy Roleplaying which is based off of Swords & Wizardry and is over at RPGNOW.
Please keep those nominations coming in for the UnSung Heroes of the OSR.
Now for a link to a Sung Hero of the OSR and one obvious choice is the well-known and the long running Jeff's Gameblog by Jeff Rients. This blog has been around since 2004 and has 2040 posts even though he has been pretty quiet comparatively the last 4 years. He covers a wide range of topic and is not shy at all. Here are his own choices for the Best of the Gameblog:
- 20 quick questions for your campaign
- a campaign concept inspired by a dream
- Another Tale from the Dorkside
- David Deitrick Mini-Shrine
- don't mourn the death, celebrate the life
- Five Overlooked RPGs
- How to Awesome Up your Players
- I got your threefold model right here,buddy!
- Let me tell you about my favorite band
- Let's talk about Encounter Critical
- Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads! (a rant)
- More Apocryphal Gaming
- My Tale from the Dorkside
- On System
- The Incomplete Pictorial History of the Bulette
- The Wraeththu Report
Again please keep your nominations coming for both UnSung and Sung Heroes of the OSR World!
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