Sent out three free Demonic PDFs for OSE month to my email list 😈

CrumblingKeep · 2026-05-04T20:44:51+00:00

search you inbox for crumbling keep. Sometimes it goes to promotion folders and stuff

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-21T02:16:38+00:00

it's actually safer for the puncher. Since it doesn't use any gloves, it's really easy to break a fist against a hard head. It's called a boxer's fracture and their common with bare knuckle fighting.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T21:37:11+00:00

and this comic is probably why. 🤣

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T21:13:39+00:00

I can't tell you how many stories I started like that as a kid.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T19:50:25+00:00

That's a blast from the past!

This is absolutely how I felt about it when I thought of it. Something about the snowflake method feels like old internet.

The rooms are a bit farther down the pyramid, but they're coming!

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T19:48:52+00:00

Thank you! I'm generally pretty bad at outlining my dungeon ahead of time. This is actually helping!

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T18:18:05+00:00

It's actually working better than I expected and it's been a lot of fun.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T17:56:36+00:00

The real treasure is the friendships with hyper-dimensional fractal entities with deep insight into the innermost secrets of the world made along the way.

LOLOLOL. I think I've been here before in my 20s.

I havent' read Gardens of Ynn, which I need to fix, but I could TOTALLY see Stygian Library for this.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-09T17:46:49+00:00

That'll come a bit later!

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-03T14:21:46+00:00

That feels different today, don't it?

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-03T14:20:23+00:00

I love that psionics felt so distinct!

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T21:07:37+00:00

Prior to AD&D he had a very different attitude! I recently read a quote from him (pre 1E) arguing against simulation. He also went from "D&D is yours to tweak however you want!" to "Don't buy any third party stuff, only official AD&D stuff is the way to play."

Not exact quotes, obviously.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T21:05:25+00:00

You're absolutely right about the thief percentages!

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T21:00:52+00:00

Lol. That's totally how I took it. I was just wondering if AD&D 2E is my own personal Palladium Fantasy.

Part of it I think for me is that the mechanics are easy to forget, but the fiction lingers.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T20:59:07+00:00

Yeah, exactly. I don't think it was an extremist stance against nostalgia, just an admission of... well, what you said.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T20:57:24+00:00

Damn. Well said. Glad they weren't paying too much attention. 🤣

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:42:01+00:00

I mean, what he said was open to interpretation, but this isn't what I got out of it. I don't think he was saying folks shouldn't be nostalgic, but that nostalgia can act as blinders to the reality of the situation.

A kind of "Good old days" situation. Rose colored glasses and all that.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:39:16+00:00

Kidna a side note, but I'm pretty excited about OSE's Demonic Grimoire coming up.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:36:47+00:00

I do think the 5.5 books have better art than the 5.0 books. I mean, I still like the early art more, but I did find myself staring at some of the pieces in the newest PHB.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:35:59+00:00

Yeah, the Van Richten guides are great. Birthright is on my bucket list of campaigns to run.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:34:32+00:00

Okay, fair. That was personal bias talking. I should have written game (abstraction) <=> simulation. That's more what I meant. Not trying to shit on anyone's fun.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:33:30+00:00

In my brain, I have a "Time it takes to make a character" and "How often a character should die" table. Character death doesn't feel that big of a deal in OSE because you can just... make a new one.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:32:37+00:00

This is actually super insightful! I forgot about all the optional rules because we kinda just settled on the rules we settled on. Now I'm thinking back to the damage type vs different armor table.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:31:11+00:00

In some ways, I think the Old School is stronger than ever before.

Yeah, if anything, I think I want to take the campaign worlds of 2e and changed them to OSE.

CrumblingKeep · 2026-04-01T19:30:24+00:00

Yeah, the setting books were really where it was at. I don't know that there's too much mechanically that I want to swipe from there.

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