Old School Revival

There is also a GM guide (Pay What You Want)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/553628/osric-3-0-gamemaster-guide

This article really promotes Ironsworn.

"​In the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game, you are a hero sworn to undertake perilous quests in the dark fantasy setting of the Ironlands. Designed for solo, co-op, and guided play, this award-winning game is free to download."

https://tomkinpress.com/

Other Solo RPG articles:

https://soloist.substack.com/p/1-why-we-play-solo-rpgs

https://www.runicdice.com/blogs/news/solo-ttrpg-the-one-player-rpg-trend

https://www.michaelghelfistudios.com/solo-rpgs/

https://jessencortashan.substack.com/p/playing-alone-living-deep-why-solo?selection=c6189b85-81ee-4c45-8cc5-5b114447fb0b#%3A%7E%3Atext=It+also+gives+me+a+way+to+confront+themes+or+situations+that+might+feel+too+personal%2C+too+awkward%2C+or+too+disruptive+for+a+group+table

https://www.graycastlepress.com/10-solo-games-on-list/

Back to the Basics of Fantasy Gaming

Enter a world filled with labyrinths, magic, and monsters!

You take the role of a burglar, cleric, cyclops, brownie, dwarf, elf, fighter, hobfolk, or wizard, on your quest for glory, treasure, and adventure!

This is a complete roleplaying game. All you need are a few sheets of paper and some dice.

The Labyrinth Lord awaits your arrival. Can you survive the dangers of the labyrinth?

Revised & Expanded! • Two new classes • More monsters • Expanded play advice • New adventure by Pauli Kidd!

Elfgame was written as part of the Icon0clasm Ball. Its premises are wide open: “This jam challenges you instead to make something novel; to deface the memory of this text (the original RPG game) with concepts untenable to the Gygaxian imagination; to resurrect this corpse into a new body.”

As such, we attempted to create a retroclone that is as far away as possible from its inspirations, without compromising its retrocompatibility:

There’s no class; no races; no ability scores; no XP for gold; no THAC0; no descending AC; one resistance instead of five saving throws; no Vancian magic; no thief skills or Listen rolls; no initiative tests; no hermetic text...

Great recent post from Grognardia.

"Goodman Games will set up an escrow account specifically to receive any royalties due to Judges Guild. Effective immediately we will take over administering the refund process for the 2014 Judges Guild “Pathfinder edition” CSIO campaign. All royalties generated from “our” 5E+DCC CSIO campaign will be paid directly into this account. No royalties will be paid directly to Judges Guild. "

I've never played any ttrpg online before and I'm wondering how to set it up. It's not the tech I dont get, it's the people. It seems the scene for online OSR play is pretty dead.

How to I join or start a solid online group?

Active Time Event!!! is a 60ish? page zine chock full of a d66 of Science Fantasy JRPG backgrounds designed for use with Troika! by Melsonian Arts Council. It has a mixed media feel, and will tickle the fancy of any OSR loving weaboo. Our Science Fantasy Expert Nerds have spent the better part of a year yelling at each other about Time Travel shenanigans referencing the likes of Chrono Trigger, Futurama, Space Dandy, Deltron 3030, Signalis, Yugimonz, The Butterfly Effect (yes– the one with Ashton Kutcher), & Many Many More! Please back this product to validate the Nerds' myriad efforts.

The crowdfunder for a run of zines starts 2/10/24, this Saturday. The goal is a measly dang $600!

Has anyone run a completely randomly generated session before? Random as in, not a handful of prepared encounters the PCs can seek out, but random as in every encounter is generated on the fly such that not even the DM knows what's going to happen.

There are a whole bunch of random generators on donjon, and I figured I could probably open a bunch of them in different tabs and roll them when I need...

But is this style of play even fun? And is it an effective use of our 8 hours a month? (It sounds fun to me; I have till January to figure out if I can pull it off though lol)