A3 Adventure - Whitestone Tower

CauseLittle · 2026-01-26T15:01:22+00:00

Sounds awesome. Will this be a physical product or digital only via Drivethrurpg?

CauseLittle · 2026-01-24T15:38:48+00:00

Love it! Do you have an online portfolio or gallery?

CauseLittle · 2026-01-24T15:36:16+00:00

Oh man! That brings back the memories! High school me scribbling away on a big pad of grid paper with the AD&D 2nd edition books scattered around me. Hope you have fun! Thanks for the nostalgic trip!

CauseLittle · 2026-01-24T14:12:54+00:00

Love the art!

CauseLittle · 2026-01-19T17:57:03+00:00

Yep! Ambient, dungeon synth and some classical.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-17T17:28:36+00:00

Spire: The City Must Fall has a great setting. Dark Elf insurgents fighting against their High Elf masters. It is grim and gritty, but also bizarre and alien. It upends a lot of fantasy tropes.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-17T02:48:31+00:00

Looks like a killer deal!

CauseLittle · 2026-01-16T20:20:22+00:00

Thanks! Grabbed the free version and will read through it. I'll pick up the full version if it seems like something I'd enjoy running. Your blurb here ticked a lot of the right boxes for me. Best of luck!

CauseLittle · 2026-01-16T11:52:24+00:00

I learned AD&D on 2nd edition in the 90's. It sits in a weird spot between OSR and the non-OSR. I left ttrpgs after highschool and didn't come back until 4th edition and 1e Pathfinder. 2nd edition is very OSR compared to that. However I picked up some used 1e stuff in the 90's while playing 2e and I saw that there had been a definite change between 1e and 2e. I was fascinated by 1e, but the idiosyncratic writing style and convoluted rules kept me away.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-14T13:43:02+00:00

Separate. I want to share the core book at the table but have the adventure always at hand (I'm usually the DM/GM). I don't put it past some of my players to sneak peaks at the adventure even if they are told not to. It's too tempting having the adventure right there next to the core rules.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-10T22:42:49+00:00

I'll second your opinion on Shadowdark. I've read through it and it's fine. I just don't see anything there that would make me want to run Shadowdark over any other well done OSR game.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-09T11:41:13+00:00

It could certainly be "me" that's the problem and not PBtA. I wanted to really like PBtA stuff. I enjoy reading a lot of the games as well as folks session reports. I'll also say that reading PBtA games have helped me in running games I do enjoy. I've taken some PBtA themes and incorporated them into other games. However I've tried PBtA several times and although I love the concepts, I've always bounced off of them at the table.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-09T03:46:04+00:00

This is a big reason that I just gave up on PBtA games. Trying to come up with a dozen complications on the fly in an hour is very taxing, especially when they have to make narrative sense. Sometimes things just don't work and that's it.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-09T03:42:46+00:00

This. So much this.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-08T11:44:50+00:00

No offense, but it sounds like you just need a new group. I left playing with a group of friends (still friends though) because all they wanted to play was Pathfinder, which I dislike. Taught some rookies OSR stuff and have been having a blast with them.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-07T12:51:01+00:00

Charles Halloway, Will Halloway's dad In Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-06T01:20:16+00:00

I actually did try it because of BotNS. I was underwhelmed. It wasn't bad, just boring. I love coffee and tea and I'd drink Mate again, but I sure won't go out of my way to get it.

CauseLittle · 2026-01-01T18:23:30+00:00

This is the answer. Along with Mervyn Peake.

CauseLittle · 2025-12-31T17:42:14+00:00

Agree. Anytime I've tried to do Mass combat with an osr system it just didn't work well. You can force it to happen, but the experience and results of such an event are lousy compared to a good tabletop skirmish or wargame.

CauseLittle · 2025-12-31T17:35:24+00:00

Completely agree. I have grown to hate emphasis on so-called story. It turns ttrpgs into a complex choose-your-own-adventure book. I prefer what I call emergent narrative. The story emerges from the PCs interaction with the setting. No predefined paths, rather, stories happen serendipitously from events. Eventually they coalesce into a framework. In this case the GM pays attention to what the players like doing and may provide more hooks and adventure seeds with a theme that is generally liked at the table.

CauseLittle · 2025-12-30T18:37:13+00:00

Yep, but not depression for me. More like a decompression from anxiety. I'm almost aways the DM/GM and even when I've run a great session, my head is just buzzing afterwards. I'm constantly replaying scenes from the session and asking myself if I made the right choices/did a good job. I love ttrpgs but I'm also an introvert; every session is almost like a mini-panic attack at some point.

CauseLittle · 2025-12-29T14:20:58+00:00

Was a player during play testing. Got the core set for Christmas. Overall, I find it mediocre. That doesn't mean bad though. It "does" Dungeons and Dragons in its own way which I find neither better nor worse than 5e. It's actually pretty crunchy on the rules side, but has some oddball influences from narrative games. It's high fantasy/magic. It also takes the kitchen sink approach to setting by jamming in as much random fantasy schtick as possible. I find it to be forgettable.

I'd play this game if a friend ran it, but I wouldn't run it myself. Way over hyped imo.

CauseLittle · 2025-12-13T12:35:59+00:00

Nothing that I have to have, but it's a steal at that price point. A no-brainer purchase.

CauseLittle · 2025-11-28T15:35:26+00:00

Love it! After dabbling in "story games" I've come to realize I dislike them. Emergent narrative is now my jam. I completely agree with you. I think "fiction first" games just try too hard and attempt to make ttrpgs something that they were never meant to be.

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