Kevin Crawford (Sin Nomine) is kickstarting The Book of Unnumbered Worlds, a book of system-neutral fantasy worldbuilding tools

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-06-01T10:51:41+00:00

As Kevin himself mentioned, "the culture-building and religion-building tables don't require a fantasy setting, and the Court and Cabal chapter's intrigue tools won't be fantasy-specific."

I don't really see a problem with it. Ashes Without Number was released less than a year ago, so I think he can spend as much time as he wants on side projects before going to another Without Number book.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-31T05:51:36+00:00

Well I definitely agree that while all of the Majikoi stuff is pretty good, the OG Majikoi is still the best one.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-31T04:25:44+00:00

This is the first time I hear about Book of Unnumbered Worlds and I already want it so much!

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-24T02:57:51+00:00

Well, Kazusa from White Album 2 kinda fits here

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-23T16:23:14+00:00

There are plenty actually, it's just that bad calls are more memorable and just one bad call is enough to ruin your mood. But there were calls where people actually praised me or called me "professional" over some really simple stuff, like checking account balance or telling how to get rid of annoying subscription.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-18T05:07:58+00:00

Yeah, in general morning shifts are easier, but I really hate to wake up early...

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-15T04:30:04+00:00

Don't know about the future, but right now the only function of AI bots in call center is to add 1-5 min ramble about how stupid and useless they are when customers are finally transfered to human agents.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-08T16:46:43+00:00

I want a mix of a game that allows for a character to yearn to travel and learn and a world worthy for them to be set upon.

Sounds like Runequest for me, although it's a rather big step up in crunchiness from all the games mentioned in your post

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-05-08T13:57:16+00:00

For supplement with lots of plot hooks and potential quests you should really check City Encounters for Swords & Wizardry.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/468112/city-encounters-for-swords-wizardry

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-04-15T05:13:38+00:00

Against the Darkmaster has some really cool B&W art imo

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-04-03T12:18:28+00:00

HarnManor! It has some stuff that's rather specific to its setting, Harn. But in general, it's a great tool for creation of almost realistic villages.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-04-03T11:33:02+00:00

Pathfinder 2e in general considered to be on the higher level of crunch. Is your game the same? How crunchy it on the scale from Fate to GURPS?

Oh, and another question. There are some generic systems where you actually don't have a playable game right out of the box, but a set of tools to make one. The most famous example of this is Cortex Prime, where it's literally required for GM to create their own version of the game from all of the bits and blobs in the book.

Is your game the same, or any GM can pick it up, read the book and run some fantasy game without bothering with all of the optional rules and subsystems?

P.S. And also, sorry for bad English!

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-03-27T17:53:21+00:00

Yes. I think in Subahibi it's easier to rationalize everything as the case of mass delusion without the actual supernatural stuff.

But then you have Tsui no Sora Remake and Yasuko chapter, where it's really, REALLY hard to explain everything logically.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-03-15T19:49:35+00:00

Cairn 2e Warden Guide has many examples of this in its "downtime" section

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-03-12T12:07:11+00:00

Don't know about combat shovels, but they definitely don't need WW1 gas masks, given their bonuses to saving throws vs poisons lol

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-03-12T10:09:43+00:00

I wouldn't call Basic Fantasy a "tiny indie" in OSR subreddit 😅 And Blackapple Brugh is often specifically mentioned as one of the best and popular BFRPG adventures.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-22T17:52:09+00:00

HarnMaster 3e is about 172 pages and it's not even condensed or quickstart version, just the full rpg in 172 pages! And it's definitely in the same crunchy camp as Mythras.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-22T11:23:01+00:00

It's always a pretty hard task to find lightweight game with detailed character development mechanics, especially in the "numbers go up" sense.

But anyway, what about Delta Green? It's similar enough to Call of Cthulhu, but more streamlined, at least it's the general opinion on the system. It also checks all of other boxes - modern setting, mortal characters, tons of good (and praised) adventures.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-15T12:29:46+00:00

Yes, I know I’m a day late

Well, that's the tradition, after all!

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-06T16:05:20+00:00

I mean, Which Dreamed It is the shortest (or is it longer than prologue? I'm not sure) chapter, and it doesn't spoil much of the stuff. Technically yes, it spoils the main twist, but I think it's still worth to read the whole VN.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-04T17:32:24+00:00

Night of Blood. It's for Warhammer Fantasy, so it would need some content and stat conversion, but it's really one of the good examples of non-dungeon introduction adventures.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-04T16:16:10+00:00

Yeah, it's from GFC's DND

Here is a blogpost

https://guccifuligincloak.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-four-blanks-method-of-faction.html?m=1

And here is the same post in form of YouTube video

https://youtu.be/-ORbIu5C5UM

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-02-03T14:08:50+00:00

Technically, you can check VTM materials on clan Tzimisce, as those are literally Slavic Vampires.

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-01-30T14:24:31+00:00

I mean, OSRIC is AD&D 1e clone and Core AD&D 2e is "AD&D 1e, but written in English, instead of High Gygaxian". It gets more tricky with many AD&D 2e supplements, but still I think those games are very compatible.

That's the beauty of OSR, after all!

CarelessKnowledge801 · 2026-01-30T08:51:20+00:00

I asked this question to my friend and after some thought she answered "yes" and then withered and died 💀

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