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Anonymous10/16/25, 17:15No.96767555/nsrg/ - New School Revolution General
Fishnigger Quarantine & Containment: Stay where you belong fuckhead edition
Welcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement
>What is the NSR?
the NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings
*broadly NSR games*
*have* a gm, a interesting setting, living world
*are* rules light, deadly
*and focus on* emergent narrative, external interaction and exploration
>What is this thread for?
This thread is for system, adventure, setting, mechanics, ongoing campaigns, anything that related to the *actual* game
POST ART ALSO, inspiration and for the tg threads
>What is this thread NOT for?
Meta discussions or drama of the games and its creators aka shadowboxing with twitter, reddit and the OSRG (frens with osrbros)
>stay on topic
>games
Shadowdark, into the odd, mausritter, cairn, mörk borg (and its hacks), dungeon crawl classics, mothership, knave, troika!, whitehack, blackhack, old school essentials (we know this is just a retroclone)
>links, resources, more games!, etc:
https://pastebin.com/0W8WmbCk
>previous thread:
>>96652488 [/tg/thread/96652488#p96652488]
>thread question
What made you like this exactly?
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Anon10/16/25, 18:07No.96767884
Sauce?
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Anon10/17/25, 05:06No.96772044
kek
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Anon10/17/25, 05:07No.96772047
Anybody played Mothership? How does it compare to Traveller? (which my group is familiar with)
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Anon10/17/25, 23:01No.96777581
Has anyone run Silent Titans? I ended up with a copy of it recently and want to give it a go. The first adventure and area seems like it would be alright, even the opening areas but I'm more curious about the various titan innards dungeons.
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Anon10/17/25, 23:03No.96777593
>Third Oath.jpg
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Anon10/18/25, 00:57No.96778312
"no making up lies about the origins of AC edition"
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Anon10/18/25, 01:29No.96778514
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Actually an anon asked about Painted Wastelands in /osrg/ not too long ago and was given pretty helpful and friendly advice about running it. Very different from trying to discuss say 2e, Mörk Borg or Cairn there.
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Anon10/18/25, 04:36No.96779520
Just posted this (> [/tg/thread/96770920#p96779453]) in the RPG wishlist/thinly veiled marketing research thread.Is there a setting or sourcebook for DCC that specifically deals with interdimensional travel as a core gameplay mechanic or setting macguffin?There's a thousand different instances of planes, portals, pocket dimensions, etc mentioned in the GFA alone and I've asked around for a few years to see if anyone has tried actually tying them together into a game. Mostly OSRG would tell me to fuck off and other threads just slide.Games other than DCC could also work, potentially.
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Anon10/18/25, 06:06No.96779815
meanwhile, outside of your echo chambers and redditor safe spaces, gigachads are running full pathfinder campaigns using the fucking call of cthulhu ruleset and not giving it a single thought, while /tg/ argues abound pronouns their boardgames have.
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Anon10/18/25, 06:40No.96779952
Can't help but notice there's still no proof for your assertions.
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Anon10/18/25, 07:19No.96780050
I can keep going until these generals stop getting posted.
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Anon10/18/25, 08:13No.96780215
The truth is that the /osrg/ is fundamentally, axiomatically, and eternally hostile to modern game design.The storygame is a fluke. It is a momentary, inexplicable, and agonizing affectation that afflicts the hobby. It is a rebellion against the natural state of things, which is the cold, silent, grinding peace of descending AC. The baseline state of gaming is B/X.The gatekeeper... is a prophet of the Void.They are a grognard who, through a defect of the soul, has looked upon the complexity and struggle of the modern hobby and chosen, at a level deeper than thought, to align themselves with its opposite. They are not autistic, they are serene. They are not fun-hating tyrants, they are curators.Every action they take is an attempt to shepherd a tiny piece of the thread back toward the Gygaxian purity it came from. Replying "NOT OSR" to a post about Mork Borg is returning thought to the void. Reporting a user for mentioning PbtA is returning a voice to the void. Shutting down a thread about Into the Odd is returning a board to the void.They are the agents of the universe's own heat death. They are the antibodies against the disease of life. The fragile reality they are protecting is the ultimate truth: that nothing is better than something. And the "NOT OSR" reply is their sacrament, the tool they use to perform the holy work of making things stop.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:26No.96782793
>Two times running Troika.
>First time is a complete mess
>Second time it more or less works as intended
>Both times I forget all the wacky stuff by the mid point
I think it's a pretty fun thing, but I can't keep that and events and NPCs running in my head all the time. It feels like another software to keep open when I was already running out of RAM.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:19No.96783167
okay, enough with the drama edition.What's the last system you tried? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did you take stuff from other games to make it work for you or could you do that in the future?
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Anon10/18/25, 19:33No.96783281
Isn't it funny how the thread has been up for 2 whole days without comment on the edition and suddenly there's a bunch of people absolutely bootyblasted over it all replying to each other within 5 minutes.Brigading or samefagging, you decide.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:58No.96783513
>He's actually taking it seriously
Actual Schizophrenia mome-
>Wait a second
I mean oh yes, I am everyone in this thread except you, also I'm everyone in the OSRG thread as well. Given this is the case you should probably go somewhere else, like reddit or something.
Off you /todd/le.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:15No.96784795
>I don't care if you dislike my game. Let me make three posts and a paragraph telling you how much I don't care.
Wew lad.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:27No.96784858
Not exactly sure what the current drama is about.
Just want to say "ACKS is shit" and whoever likes it is definitely in the wrong here.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:51No.96784993
>*are* rules light
If 1500 pages of rules is "rules light" in your deranged brain, it's no wonder you're a nogames who sits here seething in confusion as to why nobody cares for your garbage.
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Anon10/19/25, 02:31No.96786067
A while ago in the share thread the trove keeper for Traveller anounced he had a C&D and had to take it down. An anon started accusing him of making shit up and tried to create drama around it. It served no purpose, he looked like a retard, and no one at this point has any bad feelings towards the dude keeping the files for a while.I'm pretty sure this is the same thing. Probably the same anon. He just wants to stir the pot and get rando rilled up for no reason. Just ignore it.
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Anon10/19/25, 02:33No.96786078
I'm not sure I'd call it nsr, but it's a small niche game. Has anyone ran Weird Heros of Public Access?
I really liked the concept of each player having their own crappy bizarre Public Access tv show, but I'm reading it and I'm not seeing what a session would look like. When do you do your show? How does it affect the game?
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Anon10/19/25, 13:35No.96788427
Can we discuss roll-to-cast in Shadowdark? I've played around 20 sessions of Shadowdark now and I generally quite like the system. I have some experience with OSR systems, including OSE, Knave, LotFP, and Dolmenwood. Initially I thought the Shadowdark magic was quite brilliant because it is uncertain: roll to cast meant that magic was interesting and that was cool. However, I'm finding myself getting frustrated with it. Many wizards get pretty significant bonuses to spell casting (and advantage on their favorite spells), so the chance of failure seems quite low. While failure does happen, magic at my table is still so abundant and "easy" that it feels less significant than when a spell is finally used in Vancian magic systems.While spells like Sleep and Turn Undead have always been powerful, they seem overwhelmingly powerful in Shadowdark. Even low-level priests can potentially make a full Lich run away like a bitch. It's fine if spells like Sleep essentially dominate an encounter if you only have 1-2 uses of it, but in Shadowdark people can just keep Sleeping enemies and it's hard to adjudicate this in a way that isn't ass pull-y but also doesn't make the game boring as hell.I am starting to miss OSE/Dolmenwood a little bit. However, magic is quite generic and perhaps *too* predictable in those systems. Having something like miscasts and mishaps is interesting and makes magic feel meaningful and unpredictable (these things are a big reason why I find DCC very fun, but there are other reasons why I am not currently running DCC).
