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It's my Birthday! Suggest some great resources for Old School Essentials

Started by GhostNinja, April 10, 2023, 04:26:18 PM

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GhostNinja

April 10, 2023, 04:26:18 PM
It's my birthday today and I am looking for suggestions for good resources to buy for my upcoming OSE game.

So people of The RPGSite:   

What should I buy?
Ghostninja

GeekyBugle

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April 10, 2023, 04:28:41 PM
Happy Birthday!

Other than that I can only help you by bumping up the thread.
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Svenhelgrim

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April 10, 2023, 04:41:44 PM
TSR AC1 The Shady Dragon Inn. This book has a bunch of NPC's with stats and personality descriptions.  There are sketches as well, but the characters are all drawn standing in a group, so separating them might be difficult.  The main feature is a poster sized map of the Shady Dragon Inn drawn on 1" sauares.  Of course the .pdf, and the reprint don't have the poster-map, but you can print out the pages and tape them together.

Dungeon Module B2: Keep On The Borderlands.  If you can't think of anything, the keep is always looking for adventurers to clear out the nearby Caves of Chaos.  A must have.

The Necromancer class, available as a free download from Necrotic Gnome.

Carcass Crawler 1 & 2 From Necrotic Gnome (3 isn't out yet). Some house rules and a neat adventure site for OSE. Some new classes like the Wood elf, who casts Druid spells.

Death Frost Doom, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess.  A delve into a crypt with a zombie-apocalypse climax.  Also, all original monsters.

The original B3: Palace of the Silver Princess, written by Jean Wells.  It comes with a mini campaign setting and room to expand the dungeon adventure.  You will have to search internet archives to find it, but it is there.  It was released as a free download by WOTC back in 2000 so you aren't pirating if you download it.

OSE Advanced Players Tome and Advanced Referee's Tome.  These books expand the basic game lots more monsters in an easy to find format (in the .pdf), and classes from AD&D that have been B/X'ified. 

Happy birthday and Game on!

Crusader X

#3
April 10, 2023, 04:44:23 PM
Quote from: GhostNinja on April 10, 2023, 04:26:18 PM
It's my birthday today and I am looking for suggestions for good resources to buy for my upcoming OSE game.

So people of The RPGSite:   

What should I buy?

Do you play OSE Classic or Advanced?

GhostNinja

#4
April 10, 2023, 04:51:54 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 10, 2023, 04:28:41 PM
Happy Birthday!

Thank You!

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 10, 2023, 04:28:41 PMOther than that I can only help you by bumping up the thread.

Thanks.  Helps keep it alive and at the top.
Ghostninja

GhostNinja

#5
April 10, 2023, 04:52:34 PM
Quote from: Crusader X on April 10, 2023, 04:44:23 PM
Do you play OSE Classic or Advanced?

Starting with Classic, will move to advance after I get used to it.
Ghostninja

GhostNinja

#6
April 10, 2023, 04:54:37 PM
Quote from: Svenhelgrim on April 10, 2023, 04:41:44 PM
TSR AC1 The Shady Dragon Inn. This book has a bunch of NPC's with stats and personality descriptions.  There are sketches as well, but the characters are all drawn standing in a group, so separating them might be difficult.  The main feature is a poster sized map of the Shady Dragon Inn drawn on 1" sauares.  Of course the .pdf, and the reprint don't have the poster-map, but you can print out the pages and tape them together.

Dungeon Module B2: Keep On The Borderlands.  If you can't think of anything, the keep is always looking for adventurers to clear out the nearby Caves of Chaos.  A must have.

The Necromancer class, available as a free download from Necrotic Gnome.

Carcass Crawler 1 & 2 From Necrotic Gnome (3 isn't out yet). Some house rules and a neat adventure site for OSE. Some new classes like the Wood elf, who casts Druid spells.

Death Frost Doom, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess.  A delve into a crypt with a zombie-apocalypse climax.  Also, all original monsters.

The original B3: Palace of the Silver Princess, written by Jean Wells.  It comes with a mini campaign setting and room to expand the dungeon adventure.  You will have to search internet archives to find it, but it is there.  It was released as a free download by WOTC back in 2000 so you aren't pirating if you download it.

Thank you for the suggestions.  I will check them out.

Quote from: Svenhelgrim on April 10, 2023, 04:41:44 PMOSE Advanced Players Tome and Advanced Referee's Tome.  These books expand the basic game lots more monsters in an easy to find format (in the .pdf), and classes from AD&D that have been B/X'ified.

I planed to check these out when I got familiar with classic.  Should I go ahead and just get these?   

Quote from: Svenhelgrim on April 10, 2023, 04:41:44 PMHappy birthday and Game on!

Thank you so much.
Ghostninja

Persimmon

#7
April 10, 2023, 05:25:23 PM
I'd suggest getting the Advanced books if they're in print because they sell out fast and then you're waiting another year for Gavin to do yet another kickstarter.  As for adventures, a fair number of the old B/X adventures are available as print on demand if you don't mind giving DM's Guild your money.  Everyone has their personal faves, so it's up you and your group as to what you want.  I like B5, B10, X4, X5, and X8 quite a bit.  X10 is great if you want to do a world war, but can be tricky to run.  The gazetteers are generally good, but I'd suggest just starting with one or two as a campaign base.  Karameikos is best for low levels IMO.

Sakibanki

#8
April 10, 2023, 06:00:30 PM
I also don't have much to add as I don't play a lot of OSE, but happy birthday anyways! You might want to try cannibalizing other similar systems' resources too, since a lot of OSR materials are broadly cross-compatible.

LordBP

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April 10, 2023, 07:25:33 PM
Quote from: Svenhelgrim on April 10, 2023, 04:41:44 PM
TSR AC1 The Shady Dragon Inn. This book has a bunch of NPC's with stats and personality descriptions.  There are sketches as well, but the characters are all drawn standing in a group, so separating them might be difficult.  The main feature is a poster sized map of the Shady Dragon Inn drawn on 1" sauares.  Of course the .pdf, and the reprint don't have the poster-map, but you can print out the pages and tape them together.

Dungeon Module B2: Keep On The Borderlands.  If you can't think of anything, the keep is always looking for adventurers to clear out the nearby Caves of Chaos.  A must have.

The Necromancer class, available as a free download from Necrotic Gnome.

Carcass Crawler 1 & 2 From Necrotic Gnome (3 isn't out yet). Some house rules and a neat adventure site for OSE. Some new classes like the Wood elf, who casts Druid spells.

Death Frost Doom, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess.  A delve into a crypt with a zombie-apocalypse climax.  Also, all original monsters.

The original B3: Palace of the Silver Princess, written by Jean Wells.  It comes with a mini campaign setting and room to expand the dungeon adventure.  You will have to search internet archives to find it, but it is there.  It was released as a free download by WOTC back in 2000 so you aren't pirating if you download it.

OSE Advanced Players Tome and Advanced Referee's Tome.  These books expand the basic game lots more monsters in an easy to find format (in the .pdf), and classes from AD&D that have been B/X'ified. 

Happy birthday and Game on!

here is the link to the archive for WOTC free downloads.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051231235847/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads

cavalier973

#10
April 10, 2023, 08:48:18 PM
Use the rules to make your own dungeons.

The Dolmenwood page on Necrotic Gnome has the setting preview and the calendar as free downloads. I second the rocommendations to go ahead and purchase the Carcass Crawler magazines and the PDFs of the advanced fantasy books. You will be able to add things like hunting dogs/guard dogs, plus extra magic items.

Klytus

#12
April 10, 2023, 09:17:13 PM
Happy birfday!

I highly recommend anything by Brad Kerr, particularly Wyvern Songs and Temple of 1000 Swords

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/406938/Wyvern-Songs
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/360211/Temple-of-1000-Swords

Ominous Crypt of the Blood Moss is pretty sweet as well.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/319604/Ominous-Crypt-of-the-Blood-Moss

Falkrest Abbey is pretty sweet too.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409280/Falkrest-Abbey
Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?

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FingerRod

#13
April 10, 2023, 09:18:52 PM
N4 Treasure Hunt. It is the first funnel adventure I am aware of. Super modular and can springboard a campaign.

My favorite resources for RPGs, and it would work for OSE as well, are old CRPGs of the late 80's/early 90's. Quest for Glory I and II are outstanding. You have to build up all of the different NPCs and elements, stat out the monsters, but it is worth the effort. I ran a fantastic and dark version of QFG1.

And happy birthday!

GhostNinja

#14
April 10, 2023, 09:38:20 PM
Quote from: Persimmon on April 10, 2023, 05:25:23 PM
I'd suggest getting the Advanced books if they're in print because they sell out fast and then you're waiting another year for Gavin to do yet another kickstarter.  As for adventures, a fair number of the old B/X adventures are available as print on demand if you don't mind giving DM's Guild your money.  Everyone has their personal faves, so it's up you and your group as to what you want.  I like B5, B10, X4, X5, and X8 quite a bit.  X10 is great if you want to do a world war, but can be tricky to run.  The gazetteers are generally good, but I'd suggest just starting with one or two as a campaign base.  Karameikos is best for low levels IMO.

I have found that you can buy the core books in print here:  https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/collections/necrotic-gnome

I am looking at all the offer.
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