Thursday, January 5, 2023

New Year New Game Sale 2023: My OSR Recommendations

   The New Year New Game sale is on at DTRPG, and here's the offers I recommend.

Whether you've never played OSR games, or you're a veteran looking for something cool, here we go.

This year, despite the sale name, a lot of OSR adventures and supplements are included in the sale!

OSR GAMES

Old-School Essentials - Classic Fantasy Rules Tome - The best retroclone around, a faithful reproduction of the B/X D&D rules, with an exceptional work done on the text to make it clear and user-friendly, with an egregious layout. Recommended if you're new to the OSR and want the distilled, simple experience of the original B/X rules. Everything you need to play in one book. Also, my favorite OSR game.

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Core Book - A glorious OSR game that is not a retroclone but captures the feel of old school games, with unique mechanics that build on a solid d20 system, generally compatible with other OSR stuff. Recommended if you want a more modern cut, while true to the spirit of OSR... and you like crits and fumble tables. And then there's 100+ DCC adventures and supplements that are also on sale.

Worlds Without Number - Kevin Crawford's masterpiece, and one of the most successful games on the whole DrivethruRPG platform. A great game in itself, and a book with tons of tools to generate everything, from world building to adventures, whatever game system you prefer.

Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, and Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Both of Diogo Nogueira's original games are a blend of OSR and modern sensitivity, with streamlined rules and inspired tables.

Maze Rats - a modern classic among non-retroclone OSR games, by Ben Milton.

ZWEIHANDER RPG: Revised Core Rulebook - the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play retroclone... 'nuff said!

AND OSR ADVENTURES & SUPPLEMENTS

Despite the promotion is supposed to be about new games, this year quite a few supplements and adventures made it through the mysterious DrivethruRPG automatic selection and are on offer:

OSE official adventures Hole in the Oak and Incandescent Grottoes. Highly recommended!

And 50+ more third-party OSE-compatible titles are on sale.

The Gardens on Ynn - A point-crawl adventure set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden, with a system to generate content while you play.

The Stygian Library - Gardens of Ynn's twin, this time a dungeon set in an infinite, extradimensional library.

Luke Gearing's Fever Swamp - a hex-crawl sandbox adventure compatible with BX d&d and its clones.

Pauli Kidd's big huge Wolf's Head Tor, a 233-page mini setting, with a megadungeon included, developed from the author's original 70s campaign! Can you imagine something more old school?

Brad Kerr's latest adventure anthology book, Wyvern Songs. Probably THE OSR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022. It's so good. I've reviewed it here.

Peril in Olden Wood - An acclaimed, big huge regional adventure for OSE, level 3-5.

Puzzle Dungeon: The Seers Sanctum - A challenging 10 room dungeon for smart players to figure out. Reviewed it here.

Chris Kutalik's Slumbering Ursine Dunes - A widely and wildly acclaimed setting, point-crawl, and sourcebook, compatible with BX d&d and its retroclones.

Ben Milton's The Waking of Willowby Hall - A lovely adventure scenario for Knave.

WHAT ABOUT MY STUFF?!?!?

For reasons I can't fathom, my OSR stuff was not selected for the current sale. No worries though, the Falkrest Abbey adventure for OSE is still up for just $1, and my OSE e-zines are out there as Pay What You Want.

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