This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

Cool OSR books on lulu?

Started by Turanil, May 22, 2015, 12:19:41 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Turanil

I will soon, on lulu.com, order a copy of Petty Gods, and a cool-looking monster book which name I forgot. But I don't want to order just a couple of books.

Is there any other cool OSR book available on lulu that I should be aware of?
FANTASTIC HEROES & WITCHERY
Get the free PDF of this OSR/OGL role-playing game, in the download section!
DARK ALBION: THE ROSE WAR
By RPGPundit, a 15th century fantasy England campaign setting for any OSR game!

artikid

On the top of my head:
Whitehack (64 pages OSR rpg, luxury hardback)gets some positive hype, but is somewhat expensive.
The Advanced Adventures line.
Dragon de Poche 1 e 2 /Nanochrome by John Grumph.

EDIT: I recomend Grumph's stuff it's rather inexpensive, is well designed and has totally awesome art

Battle Mad Ronin

Yoon-Suin by David McGrogan is supposed to be very good, it's old school fantasy based on Tibet of all places. I ordered it a few days ago so I certainly hope it lives up to the rave reviews.

Necrozius

Yoon Suin, for sure.

Mad Monks of Kwantoom has some really cool stuff in it (reusable in other genre/systems).

The Creature Compendium is chock-full of interesting beasties.

nezach

Stuff I (some random guy) would suggest.

The Fight On! compilations are crammed with OSR goodness. They had free issues up at one point, I can't find them if they are still up. You can buy individual issues but the compilations are where it's at IMO. Issues 1-4, Issues 5-8

If you are in to hex crawls John Stater has been turning out issues of NOD since 2010 that cover various sections of his fantasy world in a "Wilderlands of High Fantasy" style. He has a couple of free issues so you can try before you buy: Issue 1, Issue 6

Anomalous Subsurface Environment - "Gonzo" setting and dungeon. I my favorite bit is the setting. Very BX D&D meets Gamma World. The dungeon part is fine too though. I don't have the 2nd module but I recommend the first.
Ndege Diamond - Nezach Hod

Battle Mad Ronin

Quote from: Necrozius;832857Mad Monks of Kwantoom has some really cool stuff in it (reusable in other genre/systems).

I second this opinion. Got the PDF on Drivethru's Nepal Bundle, really creative and weird ideas to use for almost anything.

S'mon

Dyson's Delve was my favourite recent Lulu purchase. All my other OSR stuff came off amazon. :)

camazotz

Yoon-Suin

Dyson's Delves I and Dyson's Delves II

Petty Gods

Creature Compendium

D30 DM's Companion

D30 Sandbox Companion

Teratic Tome

Anomalous Subsurface Environment (levels 1-3 are what I have, over two books)

That's just stuff I purchases on Lulu recently....there's lots more

Among the magazines over there, look for Knockspell, Fight On!, and Nod by Jon Stater

Weru

Pimping my own shite . . .

Redwald

which needs  . . .

Heroes & Other Worlds

The Butcher

I swear by Dyson's Delves, Anomalous Subsurface Environment and the Tomes of the Grotesque & Dungeonesque.

Saladman

#10
I'll second Yoon-Suin, Dyson's Delves and Mad Monks of Kwantoom.  Also, if Fire on the Velvet Horizon isn't the cool-looking monster book you're thinking of, it should be.

Quote from: artikid;832845Whitehack (64 pages OSR rpg, luxury hardback)gets some positive hype, but is somewhat expensive.
The Advanced Adventures line.

Honestly Whitehack left me cold.  I wasn't tempted to convert over, and nothing grabbed me as material to port.  I'm not saying it's not well done, but when it came out I think it got oversold a little by the OSR community's habit of saying "this is awesome!" without saying what it actually is.  But, if you're in the market for a 64 page clone/heartbreaker, it is awesome and you should check it out.

I got all three Advanced Adventures Compendiums during a major sale on hard cover books.  I'd really only expect to run a couple adventures out of each without major revision, but for context I don't often care for published modules to begin with, so this constitutes praise of a kind.  I'm actually happy with the purchase at the sale price, but at $150 for the whole line in hardcopy I hesitate to recommend full retail.  Either wait for a good sale or comb through reviews to get individual pdfs of the best ones.

Molotov

#11
Quote from: Saladman;832933Honestly Whitehack left me cold.  I wasn't tempted to convert over, and nothing grabbed me as material to port.  I'm not saying it's not well done, but when it came out I think it got oversold a little by the OSR community's habit of saying "this is awesome!" without saying what it actually is.  But, if you're in the market for a 64 page clone/heartbreaker, it is awesome and you should check it out.
I'm on the other side of Whitehack (which is fine; different flavors for different folks). I do find the writing very clean, and integrated roll (roll under, "blackjack" style) and tags (groups, to cover species, vocation) especially work for me. I really dig how it works out for Armor Class and combat (roll above the monster's AC, but equal or under your AV). I really liked that it dumped spells lists (and therefore pages of traditional retroclone inclusion) for improv style. I found the campaign concept and adventures catchy (even if I won't use them).

I'm planning out its use with Yoon-Suin, actually, and have been finding it my "go to" when thinking OSR lately.

Saladman

Quote from: Molotov;832939I'm on the other side of Whitehack (which is fine; different flavors for different folks). I do find the writing very clean, and integrated roll (roll under, "blackjack" style) and tags (groups, to cover species, vocation) especially work for me. I really dig how it works out for Armor Class and combat (roll above the monster's AC, but equal or under your AV). I really liked that it dumped spells lists (and therefore pages of traditional retroclone inclusion) for improv style. I found the campaign concept and adventures catchy (even if I won't use them).

Sure.  I can see someone digging all of that.  I might have even liked it more if I'd known that was what I was getting.  My complaint is more that it wouldn't have killed the creator to put that on the jacket, or the lulu page, or the original announcement, or somewhere aside from a third-party comment on the second page of a forum thread somewhere.

Whitehack

#13
Quote from: Saladman;832964Sure.  I can see someone digging all of that.  I might have even liked it more if I'd known that was what I was getting.  My complaint is more that it wouldn't have killed the creator to put that on the jacket, or the lulu page, or the original announcement, or somewhere aside from a third-party comment on the second page of a forum thread somewhere.

Hello! I’m the creator of Whitehack.

I absolutely hate it that someone would feel cheated in buying my game, and am very sorry that you feel that way! But at the same time I don’t understand how it could happen, so I just have to write this:

All of what Molotov mentions was stated on whitehackrpg.wordpress.com, on the front page, together with a full table of contents (the photo at the bottom of the page). There was also an extensive FAQ and links to 10 reviews in English of the first edition. The site was explicitly mentioned as the place to go to for more info, both in my original announcement, on the lulu sales pages and on the dustjacket. The info is still there—nothing has changed apart from some new reviews, so you can see for yourself.

I haven't labeled Whitehack a clone, as it clearly isn’t in the sense that for example LL and S&W (both *excellent* games) are, and I don't want to make someone looking for a faithful clone of some favorite system/edition disappointed. As for your heartbreaker comment, I don’t know if you are using it in a derogative sense (I can live with that :) ) or if you are saying that it is very much like other fantasy RPGs. In the latter case: Whitehack is explicitly written in the original tradition, but I have done my best to contribute something to it and I honestly think that—for good or ill—my game as a whole is a bit of its own beast. This is especially so for the Second Edition.

Again: I’m sorry you aren’t happy with your purchase, but there are quite a few people buying Whitehack atm. If you put it up on ebay I am sure you will get most of your money back.

Bilharzia

Not osr but I imagine easy to use, the xoth.net books
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/xothpublishing

Spider god's bride is a d20 variant.