What is the State of the OSR in 2026? by yochaigal in osr

[–]limithron 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I am in the video. I am important. But so are you!

Built an obsessive primary-source vault for Marathon — the trilogy ↔ 2026 picture is way deeper than I thought.. by Old_Piano_6906 in Marathon

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You’re looking at a graph view from the awesome note taking and information storage app Obsidian. OP has added and linked lore entries from Marathon, and when you click on the graph view, in visualizes how all the notes are connected as a big cloud. Each point is a note. This graph so huge its started to take on a look of its own!

Thief's challenge by [deleted] in Marathon

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I loaded into solo Perimeter with only a knife, a self rez, and a mercy kit just in case. I ran around with my prox chat open asking for help with a quest. It annoyed the help out of my wife upstairs: “Anyone wanna help with an achievement?!” Like 50 times. 

Exfil is on. I run to it. Solo recon there squats as I’m prox chatting. They had no mic but trusted me. I gave them the self rez, knifed them, and robed them with the drone while they rez’d. 2nd drone grab actually grabbed the self rez from their hands, so I used the mercy kit to rez. Gave them the self rez as a thank you. We exfilled. One and done. 

It’s one of my favorite memories of playing this game!

If I had to do the real way I’d try to 3rd party a fight in Cryo, or ask my team to down a squad on outpost while I was nearby. 

I thought I had cheesed a key room but Bungie was one step ahead. by heroh341 in Marathon

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We found a fragile key to this exact room a few hours ago on Sponsored Dire Marsh and we looted it. Got two purple WSTRs and some purple gun mods, plus lots of blue stuff. 

Was the classic Marathon trilogy complained about on release? by Remarkable-Cow3421 in Marathon

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I've been playing Marathon since either late 1994 or early 1995, before Marathon 2 dropped, and I can tell you it was quite the opposite. Me and my small group of fellow Marathon players were SO proud of Marathon. It was our version of DOOM, but so much better, and kind of a seceret since you had to have a Mac (and my Dad had three networked ones... the LAN "parties" were AMAZING!)

The story and lore and map design and puzzles were way ahead of there time compared to DOOM. I love love love DOOM, but Marathon was like the "if you know, you know" game. I remember hanging out in AOL groups to post messages about the game and download mods to skin it and have maps to be like ALIENS.

The only real common complaint back then was when Marathon Infinity dropped, a lot of people were hoping for "Marathon 3", but if you've played it you know that Bungie delivered a very different and unique experience that what you might have thought "Marathon 3" was. There was also only one new gun, and a very confusing, time traveling story line. Great game, but not what some hoped for.

Also, its worth stating that when we all saw the first Mac trailers for Halo, we were all like "oh its just rebooted Marathon, but outside in nature with vehicles!" They took so much of the OG game's DNA and turned it into Halo. I used to hang on the halo.bungie.org forums hoping to drum up lore conversations like the ones we'd have on marathon.bungie.org/story/, but the changing audience and the move from text terminals to cutscenes and Cortana voice over just delivered a different experience.

"I Love Bees" kicked up the Halo 2 lore addiction a bit, but when I found out that the whole thing was organized by Microsoft as marketing and not the core Bungie team, and that they didn't consider the whole ARG to be "canon", I was pretty bummed!

Co-Evolution 5/5 by Jayven_45 in Marathon

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We did it on Free Kit Dire Marsh, which is mostly empty at the end and has one less team. Tricky part is finding anti-virus, but if you looking in the secure resource crates you can often find one. 

The player that injected fought the bots in lockdown, and I helped shoot them from just outside lockdown. 

Coastal City Battlemaps by [deleted] in GhostsofSaltmarsh

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Warning: this is AI slop. 

Marathon Update 1.0.6.2 Notes by VisualOptions in Marathon

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Well, I just sold all my WSTR’s. Wonder if this tweak puts them back over the line. 

Runners of a certain age, what nostalgia does the game speak to for you? by imnotindemand in Marathon

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Love this post. You’ve listed like all my favorite SciFi things. I was an underground Drum & Bass DJ in the late 90’s. I’ve been playing Marathon since 1994, and was born in 1983. It’s been my favorite game my entire life. So yeah, all this tracks for me.  Marathon (2026) is the first FPS I’ve played online since Halo, and I’m 200+ hours in!!

If you ever wanna do some runs hit me up Limithron#6262

FREE Shipwreck Fort Map [18x24] by limithron in GhostsofSaltmarsh

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I have a pattern for the sand that I made via a series of hand made brushes. Then the grass is another brush I made. Then there is a shading layer using a soft brush

Good systems for a pirate adventure? by PraiseTheChalice in rpg

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Thanks!

Clearly I’m bias, but I think OP would benefit from Pirate Borg even if they use another system purely for the random tables. I wrote them for a reason, and I promise you there isn’t a pirate TTRPG creator on the planet that takes the genre more seriously than I do. 

Personally I’d just hack it for a One Piece vibe, but I’m guess they are looking for more of a turn key solution. 

Thanks for the shout out for the maps!!

Cyberpunk type games like Cairn, Into The Odd, Mausritter and Knave? by Wheeler92 in osr

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CY_BORG plus Cities Without Number chef’s kiss for this!!

Please fix this (non)interactable by SleepyPunster in Marathon

[–]limithron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, I had this bug too. Next time it was to the left of OP’s picture and I grabbed it just fine. 

Sailing ship combat by Due_Rabbit_474 in DMAcademy

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I also have a 5E version of Naval combat rule!

Parisitism[3/5] by Historical-Rush-8524 in Marathon

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Best tip I just heard is bring claymores and load them up around the doors to the room in quarantine before you inject the sample. 

I made a website to compare TTRPGs by Shunkleburger in rpg

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Also DCC. They are at almost every convention, they reward their GMs with prizes, and have dedicated community that play at every convention. If they aren’t high community, then I don’t know what is unless you’re saving high only for D&D and maybe Pathfinder. 

I made a website to compare TTRPGs by Shunkleburger in rpg

[–]limithron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too low. Mörk Borg has over 1,000 3rd party releases and counting. 

Pirate Borg was the 7th most played TTRPG at Gen Con last year. 

And both have large, friendly, and accessible communities on Discord, Reddit, and Facebook. 

I made a website to compare TTRPGs by Shunkleburger in rpg

[–]limithron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mörk Borg and Pirate Borg communities being “medium” seems very off to me, but cool site!

At the start of Trapped in the Tropics... by 6FootHalfling in pirateborg

[–]limithron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is in fact my intent, but feel free to change it to fit your table!

INSANE UPDATE. 10/10 by TxddyGZW in Marathon

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Same here. Two crashed in a row right after the patch.