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Welcome to Old school-gaming forums!

tenkar
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:17:31 GMT

This is internet’s number one place to discuss everything Old School-Gaming related! You can ask questions, share interesting things, tell stories, help others, or just hang around and talk to people. To get things going… How about we all introduce ourselves? :) Please keep the discussion civil!

jcfiala
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:22:16 GMT

Huh, this is an interesting thing to see. Amusingly, my first reaction was that this was the same forum that GMS is using for Far West, but I see now my initial reaction is mistaken. I'm interested in seeing how this takes off, given the competition that's already out there for eyeballs... including your own discord.

tenkar
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:46:56 GMT

oh, definitely going to be a challenge. but forums allow for a different sort of discussion than Discord, and multiple entry points should be interesting

zudrak
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:55:48 GMT

I much prefer message boards to ephemeral talk sites like Discord, FB, MeWe, Twitter, etc. for RPG talk. As is the case with Dragonsfoot's message boards, there could be plenty of "old" posts covering topics in the OSR that are just as valid as one written today. It's a lot easier finding such answers on a message board than on a site that only shows the newest comments, posts, threads, etc. Nice work, Tenkar!

chuck_t
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:05:32 GMT

I just want to say Hi to everybody so far. Let's see I mainly blog over at https://theymightbegazebos.blog/ and am still figuring out all the bells and whistles on the new forum. And as a confession, the last time that I decided I was going to show up at Tavern Chat on Discord, both Erik and Glen ended up in the hospital.

ericdiazdotd
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:58:03 GMT

Hi folks ! I like this format. Login with reddit was a bit of a hassle, and couldn't of it with google.

ericdiazdotd
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:59:04 GMT

Here is my blog (old school and 5e): http://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/ And my OS retroclone (a bit of B/X, some 5e, even some 3.5): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/229046/Dark-Fantasy-Basic--Players-Guide?src=newest_recent&coverSizeTestPhase2=true&word-variants=true

ericdiazdotd
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:00:20 GMT

This is much easier than Discord for me! Thanks Tenkar!

chuck_t
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:24:56 GMT

Hi All. OK quick question on the channels. What's the difference between "OSR Clones..." and "Classic Clones.."? OSR=D&D/d20 and Classic=Others (Cepheus, FASERIP etc)?

Reese
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:51:27 GMT

Curious about that myself!

rredmond
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:19:29 GMT

Viewing posts is a little different. But thanks for the welcome.

chuck_t
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:20:32 GMT

Still getting used to it. I think more will become apparent as topics and discussions start happening

doseyclwn
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:31:20 GMT

Hey Everybody!

hijinx131
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:15:57 GMT

Think you got it straight chuck_t. At least that's how I see it.

OSR
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:31:32 GMT

Hello, I'm French. I'm publising some stuff, so I've written a short presentation in the "PUBLISHERS" sub-forum. I've been gaming since the mid-1980's. I've been an RPG collector for years, but nowadays I tend to become minimalist in all aspects of my life. For example, I've trimmed down my physical RPG collection from hundreds of books and boxes down to two dozen books. Most stuff have been given away for free, including a few "precious things", such as my near-complete Planescape collection. "Old" RPG's I like : Empire of the Petal Throne, Amber, L'Ultime Epreuve, etc. "Modern" RPG's I like : OSRIC, Cryptworld, Rogue Trader, etc.

reddicediaries
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:44:38 GMT

Hi, John here from the *Red Dice Diaries* blog, podcast and Youtube channel, I mainly post gaming advise and thoughts on the hobby in general (working with my wife *Hannah* on the podcast), along with the odd review or discussion about a project that interests me. I'm from the Midlands in the UK and have had a few bits and pieces published either by myself or as freelance working with others (such as Glynn Seal from Monkeyblood Design and Joseph Salvador of Eldritch Tales fame) and am currently working on creating a few bits and pieces to put up on Drivethru. I mostly play old-school games (I'm running a campaign of *Old School Essentials* at the moment and own a number of retro-clones, plus some AD&D 1E and 2E stuff and some POD reprints of older stuff like the Rules Cyclopedia. I also like some newer games and am running Vampire the Masquerade whilst playing in some PBTA games.

SBaudelaire
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:04:44 GMT

I'm Stephanie, game designer and co-owner of 2Stoners During COVID Publishing, we make games (well, just one so far, but fingers crossed!). We're based out of Washington State, USA, and we've got a blog about OSR gaming and some other junk in the works coming up. Myself, I've been gaming for about 30 years, and making games for about as long. I've worked for some big companies in the industry in small positions and some small companies in the industry in big positions. I'm just trying to get word out there that games don't have to be about millions of rules in a book, they can be about having fun (imagine that!)

ABaudelaire
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:10:08 GMT

hi I'm auryn, I co own 2SDC publishing and havent been playing very long (only 3 months.) I like games without horribly complicated rules and hope to get better at both playing and refereeing OSR games

Reese
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:27:36 GMT

Hey everyone! Reese here, live from Boston - I either go by my name or Koren on the various forums and Discord servers. Mostly a fan of BX/Old-School Essentials but dig on some S&W too. My pet project is a Cyberpunk/Shadorwun hack for BX/OSE I'm slowly tinkering away at. Rarely updated blog at: http://retrocyberpunk.blogspot.com/

chuck_t
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:00:59 GMT

Chrome-OSE looks cool!

true_kobayashi
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:37:09 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm Kobayashi, a small publisher and quite happy to be here !