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- 20:07, 6 June 2024 Onf talk contribs changed the settings "active, article-path" for "osrwikiwiki" (:()
- 16:53, 6 April 2024 Onf talk contribs created page THAC0 (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''THAC0''', standing for "To Hit Armor Class 0" is a way of resolving attack rolls first formally introduced in AD&D's Dungeons Masters Guide from the first edition. Using this method, rolls are resolved through the derivation of an hypothetical scenario where the attacker rolls against an unprotected opponent. Originally born out of the necessity to streamline mechanics in the tournament scene, it was then adopted in official r...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:35, 27 March 2024 User account RevelationUA talk contribs was created automatically
- 06:59, 22 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page West Marches (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} '''West Marches''' is a campaign style originally described Ben Robbins in a series of blog posts in 2007-2008. It is a sandbox-based campaign. Instead of a regular group, it draws from a larger pool of players who form parties and schedule sessions on the fly.<ref>https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/</ref> == References == Category:Patterns Category:Essays") Tag: Visual edit
- 06:48, 22 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Death & Dismemberment (Created page with "thumb|384x384px|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_Man "Wound Man"], an illustration popular in 15th-17th century medical books and modern OSR releases {{Template:Stub}} '''Death & Dismemberment''' is a common house rule for Dungeons & Dragons-like OSR games. It is an additional mechanic that kicks in once a character drops to 0 hit points. Instead of instantly dying or falling unconscious, the character receives a significant injury, usu...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:17, 20 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Gygaxian Magic (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Gygaxian Magic''' is a set of rules about special character abilities identified as magic and spellcasting seen in Dungeons & Dragons games. In these rules for magic, magic users have a limited number of spell slots they can fill with spells that they have physical access to. When a player character casts a spell, they use up that slot until they rest. Resting also allows the player to switch spells. Category:Patterns") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:16, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Dungeons & Dragons (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Dungeons & Dragons''' is a family of game systems started in 1974 with OD&D by Gary Gygax. While it keeps getting new versions and variations to this day, the OSR, especially in its earliest Classic revivalism form, is mainly interested in its older installments from 1974 to 1995. == See also == ''See Dungeons & Dragons for all official D&D material.'' * O...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:06, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Classless (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Classless''' is a pattern related to class most commonly found in NSR games. It designates games inspired by Dungeons & Dragons who does away from the concept of character class, for the sake of simplicity, speed or a design philosophy that seeks to make all characters share similar abilities. == Analysis == In dungeon crawling games, classless rules are the exception rather than the norm. Most...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:51, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Race-as-Class (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Race-as-Class''' is a common pattern related to class in early versions of Dungeons & Dragons. It got carried into it's many retroclones. == History == In particular editions of Dungeons & Dragons, the available character types cover both profession-like categories and racial/species-related categories. For example, in Moldvay Basic, the available character classes are Clerics,...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:40, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set''' is a series of games based on OD&D released between 1977 to 1991. == History == === Holme's Basic Set === The first version of D&D Basic, released in 1977. === Moldvay's & Cook's Basic & Expert === Known in the scene as '''B/X''', Moldvay's and Cook's version was released alongside the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in 1981. It notably shipped with The Keep on the Borderla...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:18, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs moved page Hexcrawling to Hexcrawl
- 20:48, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs modified the namespace "<Main>" for "osrwikiwiki" (test)
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- 20:46, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs changed the settings "visualeditor" for "osrwikiwiki" (and off again ?)
- 20:46, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs changed the settings "visualeditor" for "osrwikiwiki" (have you tried turning it off..)
- 17:09, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs moved page XP-as-Gold to XP-for-Gold without leaving a redirect (Misspelled title)
- 17:05, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Referee (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} '''Referee''', also known as '''Dungeon Master''', '''Game Master''', and so on - the main facilitator of the game.")
- 17:02, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (Created page with "'''Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser''' are a duo of sword & sorcery protagonists, created by author Fritz Leiber. They first appeared in a story published in 1939.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser</ref><blockquote>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser represent an important evolutionary step in fantasy literature beyond Conan, though you might not be able to tell from a glance at Fafhrd, who is indeed a barbarian from the frozen wastelands to the north. At...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:38, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Carousing (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} '''Carousing''' This article suggests one answer to a vexing problem that appeared in local play: too much treasure in the scenario. After the players amassed a few thousand GP equipment costs became irrelevant, though the players had nowhere near enough money for luxuries like private towers or galleys. But there was far too much cash for the players to simply leave in their rooms at the local inn. This couldn’t be right; Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser...")
- 15:55, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Category:NSR (Created page with "See New School Revolution") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 15:55, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page New School Revolution (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''New School Revolution''' or '''NSR''' for short is a subtype, branch or continuation of OSR that stands out through a focus on expanding the scope of the movement and distancing itself from old school D&D<ref name=":0">https://boneboxchant.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/nsr/</ref>. It can be thought of as an answer to continuous debate about what belongs and what doesn't belong in the OSR, an attempt to put an end to "internecine warfare...") Tag: Visual edit
- 14:07, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Retroclone (Created page with "A '''retroclone''' is a game system that aims Links List of D&D retroclones grouped by original system, by Taxidermix Owlbear References")
- 11:42, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Stronghold (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} A '''stronghold''' is a fortified location in the game world. Player characters setting up their own stronghold is considered a key element of domain play.")
- 11:35, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Wizard's tower (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} A '''wizard's tower''' is a common fantasy trope. Examples and references: The Tower of Zenopus Tower of the Stargazer Crooked Rock Tower in BF2: Fortress, Tomb and Tower for Basic Fantasy RPG Land of a Thousand Towers, the setting of the Anomalous Subsurface Environment dungeon, is the land of a 1000 wizard's towers (not detailed in the publications)")
- 11:07, 19 March 2024 Onf talk contribs changed the settings "wgVisualEditorEnableWikitext, wgMFDefaultEditor" for "osrwikiwiki" (ve)
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- 09:05, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Philotomy's Musings (Created page with "'''Philotomy's Musings''' is a collection of posts by Jason Cone, originally published on his (now defunct) website.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20120830003535/http://www.philotomy.com/</ref> He discusses running Original Dungeons & Dragons, explains his rulings and interpretations of the texts. == Links == The Musings are archived in at least two forms: * [https://save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/grab-bag/philotomy/ Web archive on Save vs. Total Party Kill] * [https:/...") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:18, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Category:Timeline (Created page with "Chronology of publications and events.")
- 08:16, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page 1974 (Redirected page to Category:1974) Tags: New redirect Visual edit
- 07:47, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Traveller: Out of the Box (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} '''Traveller: Out of the Box''' is a series of blog posts by Christopher Kubasik, describing his approach to running an open-world sandbox game using Classic Traveller.")
- 07:34, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Appendix N (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} Appendix N: Inspirational and educational reading is one of the appendices in the 1979 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide. In a more generic sense, "Appendix N" is used to denote a list of inspirations for the flavor, mood and themes of a setting or game.")
- 07:21, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Original Dungeons & Dragons (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} '''Original Dungeons & Dragons''' (full title on publication: ''Rules for Fantastic Medieval Wargames Campaigns Playable with Paper and Pencil and Miniature Figures'', also known as 0e ("edition zero")) is a game published in 1974, written by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.")
- 07:17, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Category:1974 (Created page with "The year when movies like Zardoz, The Land That Time Forgot, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, books like The Warrior of World's End and Dhalgren, and a little game known as Dungeons & Dragons came out. thumb")
- 07:16, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page File:1974 fashion.jpg
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- 07:09, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Outdoor Survival (Created page with "'''Outdoor Survival''' is a board game released by Avalon Hill in 1972.<ref>https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1511/outdoor-survival</ref> It is about... outdoor survival: "a simulation of the essential conditions for staying alive when unprotected man is beset by his environment."<ref>Outdoor Survival: Rules of Play. Avalon Hill, 1972, p. [1].</ref> Five different scenarios (Lost, Survival, Search, Rescue and Pursue) can be played out on a map with a hexagonal grid...") Tag: Visual edit
- 06:41, 19 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page The Original D&D Setting (Created page with "'''The Original D&D Setting''' (also known as The Implied Setting of OD&D) is a series of posts by blogger Wayne Rossi, compiled into a single PDF document<ref>https://initiativeone.blogspot.com/2013/05/od-setting-posts-in-pdf.html</ref>. The 10 posts were written in 2013. They describe the "setting" of Original Dungeons & Dragons, as inferred from only the texts of the Three LBBs and applied to the Outdoor Survival boardgame's hex...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:11, 18 March 2024 User account Bradcomp talk contribs was created
- 16:09, 18 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page File:Marx DM.png
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- 15:43, 18 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Class (Created page with "{{Template:Stub}} In the context of Dungeons & Dragons, '''class''' denotes a specific character type assigned during character creation. == History of the term == As Jon Peterson explains in Playing at the World, In Chainmail, a work prior to the use of the term “class,” a Wizard, a Hero and a Super-hero were considered separate “types.” That term however conflates persons of different capabilities (as a Wizard is to a Hero) with persons of similar...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 23:04, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Hexcrawling (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Hexcrawling''' is one of the most recognizable and defining game pattern of OSR playstyle. It mainly deals with providing a useful abstraction for overland travel and exploration procedures. Hexes is a game abstraction common among strategy board games, and thus are borrowed directly from the wargaming roots of classic play. In a typical hexcrawl, each hex represents 6 miles - 10 kilometers - diameter of land, that an expedition ca...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:43, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Template:Archive Panel (Created page with "<div style=" float:right; border: 1px solid #A0A0A0; border-spacing: 3px; padding: 5px 10px; background-color: #f4f0e5; "> This topic has an [[{{{link|Test}}}|Archive]] page. </div>")
- 22:32, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Archive:Six Cultures of Play (Created page with "In this post I am going to present the taxonomy of the six main play cultures as well as a few notes about their historical origins. I am doing this to help people from different play cultures both understand their own values better as well as to encourage stronger and more productive cross-cultural discussion. There are at least six main cultures of play that have emerged over the course of the roleplaying game hobby. There may be more: my analysis is mainly restricted...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:17, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs modified the namespace "Archive" for "osrwikiwiki" (Archive creation)
- 21:37, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Template:GameDesignerInfobox (Infobox created with infobox builder.)
- 21:33, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Category:Megadungeons (Created page with "'''Megadungeons''' are dungeons so large that they are the main subject of entire campaigns and are by definition too large to explore in it's entirety.") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:15, 16 March 2024 Onf talk contribs created page Template:GameModuleInfobox (Infobox created with infobox builder.)
- 19:52, 16 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page Emmy Allen (Created page with "'''Emmy Allen''' (a.k.a. Cavegirl) is an RPG designer. Key works include adventure modules such as The Gardens of Ynn and The Stygian Library (both depthcrawls) and systems Esoteric Enterprises, Wolf-Packs & Winter Snow and Dungeon Bitches. == Links == [https://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/ Cavegirl's game stuff], her blog Category:Designers Category:Stub") Tag: Visual edit
- 19:47, 16 March 2024 Evil scientist talk contribs created page The Iron Coral (Redirected page to Into the Odd) Tags: New redirect Visual edit