I'd like to see the OSR switch from a focus on redoing the rules system to producing old school adventures. By which I mean location-based mini-sandboxes.

Less mechanics, more inspiring settings!

There's a reason I keep returning to the 2e D&D wellspring. Cool worlds I want to play in, and plenty of expanded support.

Oh, and more/better/diverse art.

64 page rulebooks that cover what I need to play. Very tired of being expected to learn new 300+ page tomes.

Quote from: TristramEvans;708986I'd like to see the OSR switch from a focus on redoing the rules system to producing old school adventures. By which I mean location-based mini-sandboxes.

The tendency even on Dragonsfoot is to treat the TSR tournament modules as the model.I agree, I'd like to see more sandboxy location modules, especially short ones. I've got a lot of use from the One Page Dungeon contest entries.

We don't need more rules. Give me adventures or settings and even better give me the stats for OSR, AD&D, D&D Next and even RuneQuest and let me decide how I play...

More historical games that don't contain supernatural elements/magic/etc. And I will second Pundit on more OSR games that are not just clones.

Quote from: Rezendevous;709034More historical games that don't contain supernatural elements/magic/etc. And I will second Pundit on more OSR games that are not just clones.

Strip out the optional magic and supernatural system from Furry Outlaws (Robin Hood) and Furry Pirates (High Seas) and swap in humans and you have two rather nice historical themed RPGs.

Didnt TSR do a roman themed D&D setting?

More ideas stolen from Final Fantasy...

... what?

Quote from: Ravenswing;707303No.  There's not that many, not remotely close.  If that were the case, there'd be gaming clubs at the college and the high school and the junior high.  The FLGS (the only one in the county) would be roaring full of tabletop business rather than board games and Warhammer and CCGs.  The online game finders would have many dozens of players within the city limits, instead of, well, me.

My personal network of RPG players (people who I have played with personally in the last two years and who I reach out to when I'm running an open table or recruiting for a one shot) has 40 players in it. Of those players:

- 4 of them have participated in a gaming club (and that was 10+ years ago)
- Roughly half of them have never purchased an RPG product; less then 10 of them have anything remotely resembling a regular purchasing habit
- Most don't go to the local game shop (and those who do are often buying non-RPG products when they go)
- 0 of them have ever used an online game finder
- Less than 5 of them participate in online RPG forums of any kind

I, personally, have purchased only one RPG rulebook at a local store in the last half decade. I've never belonged to a gaming club. I've never used an online game finder. Using your metrics, I would literally not exist as a gamer. The reality, OTOH, is that I've got five RPG sessions scheduled in the next week where I'll be playing with 17 different people (all of whom would also currently be invisible according to your metrics, with the exception of two guys who were part of a gaming club a decade ago).

More settings that are just settings and not platforms to launch some kind of political lecture or promote "social justice" by neutering anything that might actually have visceral emotional impact, by something that people that actually go outside once in awhile and have normal social interaction could relate too or, god forbid, "trigger" someone, somewhere at some point or even cause the slightest possible offense.

IOW: Tits.

Less settings/adventures, and more fun-to-use tool kits like Vornheim, Sine Nomine's Red Tide, The X Alphabet-style books, and AEG's Toolbox/Ultimate Toolbox.

OSR: Good scenarios and campaign resources. I'm not saying they're terribly rare, just that more are always welcome! It's groovy that people actually use this or that particular new rules book. However, a lot more people can get use out of a scenario published in the Common Tongue.

A No School Renaissance: Good scenarios and campaign resources, pretty much rules set agnostic. Even lots of people who bitch about Palladium game systems would probably dig a lot of the really imaginative material. I'm just using that as an example, trying to suggest that maybe it's worth sharing more stuff in terms of essential game elements. There might not be much value for many people using rules sets that call for elaborate "stat blocks," but you can cater to them in one version and strip out that stuff from another.

All around, I'd like to more stuff from actual gamers and actual games, as opposed to just written to order in a "product" factory.

More well written modules.

Please share products that you think are the current gold standard of what you speak.

Cheers

Quote from: Teazia;709689Please share products that you think are the current gold standard of what you speak.

Cheers

About anything before the 90s? After that it became really hit or miss and progressivly more miss than hit. There is a serious drop in overall quality with the occasional gems standing out amidst those.

YMMV of course.