Broodmother SkyFortress: OSR DnD Book Review
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Hey, thanks so much for the kind review!
Jeff Rients You, among a select few others, are very talented designers, and I'm glad people doesn't need big publishers like in the 80s and 90s to get things going
I'm reading through it now, and your words and world have changed my understanding of what a dnd adventure is, in amazing ways. Thank you so very much!
One thing I forgot to mention was how wonderfully conversational and personal the tone of the book is. It has a strong voice, and that's something more RPG books could do with. Also that one piece of art wasn't a reference to an anime, it was a parody of the Savant and Sorcerer book for the Exalted RPG.
That second piece is a Harry Dresden reference I think. Right after the Savant and Sorcerer one.
Picked this book up randomly at a gamestore as I am a 5e dm/player getting into OSR stuff for the first time. I had exactly the same experience when reading it - I sat on a park bench and ended up sitting there until I had finished! It has been super helpful in solidifying a lot of my feelings about DMing that I was developing while DMing 5e for the first time, and I'm super excited to run my next campaign / oneshot, which will definitely be using Lamentations & the advice here :)
12:50 onwards is a great summation of 5e vs. OSR.
Huge fan of Jeff and his work, hopefully Santa will be bringing me this one!
The illustration on page 6 is from cover art of the Jim Butcher book Side Jobs in the Dresden files series. He switched hands holding the staff and added the monster peeking around the corner.
I thought that looked familiar.
Just noticed the picture on the back cover is actually the Keep from Keep on the Borderlands B1, nice touch!
Great stuff. I definitely want to get this adventure! 👍🏽
Loving these videos.
Gaining XP for things outside of combat and amassing treasure has always been around in one form or another, either as direct instruction to GMs or as optional. Just because somebody called out one specific thing you could give it out for, doesn't mean it wasn't already on the table.
Yep. I can't speak of earlier instances but I know all this stuff was in the Rules Cyclopedia in the early nineties. That was my first D&D campaign and our DM gave us experience for all sorts of random stuff.
Carousing first appeared in a 1977 Dragon magazine article...
Yeah, I was gonna say, Jeff might bring this stuff to a wider and newer audience, but I remember this shit being in the Rules Cyclopedia way back when I got into D&D in the early nineties lol
I can't wait to get this. But I think you can enjoy 5e and games like this.
Getting XP for travelling and visiting new places goes all the way back to Rolemaster.
I'm pretty sure I saw XP for gold wasted back in the day, too, but can't quote exactly where. ;)
Good review. As someone who has only recently gotten into OSR stuff, books like this (and the GMing section of Maze Rats) do fill an important niche.
Incidentally, 5e first presented carousing rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 128). A revised/expanded form appeared in an Unearthed Arcana article, and now in the new Xanathar book. Neither procedure has gaining XP as an outcome, just gaining/losing money and generating story seeds.
wereoctopus Thanks for clarifying that.
The Amazon link says paperback but the LotFP website says hardcover. Do you happen to know if it was just miscategorized in Amazon? Same thing with Cursed Chateau...
It's probably a miscategorization. I'm pretty sure these books don't even have a paperback edition.
Hey Ben. I'm planning on running Hot Springs Island for my group. Do you think Burning Wheel is a good system for it? Which system would you suggest? They like roleplaying, puzzle solving, and achieving great feats.
Also other than your blog and JRients, what other OSR blogs are good to follow?
To run a traditional hexcrawl, you definitely don't want to use a storygame like Burning Wheel. You want something fairly traditional and open, like Lamentations of the Flame Princess, D&D 5e, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Pathfinder, Shadow of the Demon Lord, and so on.
Best old-school blogs: False Machine, Goblin Punch, Monsters and Manuals, Alex Schroeder, Coins and Scrolls, Dungeon of Signs, Hack and Slash, Trilemma, Last Gasp Grimoire, Necropraxis, Sooga Games, Playing at the World, Save vs Total Party Kill, The City of Iron, The Dungeon Dozen, and Zak Smith's blog.
Best adventure ever!🥇🎲 Wizards of the Coast stole all Jeff's ideas?????
Somehow I only noticed now that this was written by Jeff.
I have no clue who I always associated it with.
The intense use of any psychotropic is heavily recommended before using this book.
that my guy sorry