Greetings, my Fishes!
Tis I, the Imperator Offensiveness MaXXXimVs!
The FIST of the Divine Emperor Gaius...!
I've re-written many of my personal scripts so Maxx could upload them in the "Attack of the Robot Barbarians" blog and keep Ko-Fi support since not X rated versus MY edits.. I'm doing some work for the Orange Sun/Far Tomorrows project and on the side my comics, pulp novels and the next TTRPG free XXX product of mine coming soon...Whew...
Anyways, the net is a-buzz with the OSR 1.1 If it was "Testing the Waters" they threw a match into an open tub full of gasoline...! 90% against, even the "Woke" invader / grifter content producers are sh-tting bricks!
Here's the sanest take on this:
https://youtu.be/yydxzM8p4RI
We have no affiliation with "Dungeon Craft", just are fans.
As it looks like this is legit, obviously even the PG-R rated Orange Sun and Far Tomorrows will steer clear of OSR period. We are 'outsiders' and 'indies' so would be first on the list for them to take everything from us if we were foolish enough to sign to 1.1 or to harass us with lawyers if we clung to 1.0, especially with my dealing with Cancel attempts from the Zwei-hander people and some extreme trolls.
Big F-cking deal!
We are going full steam ahead!
Let me say - the TTRPG is not just a "Game" that might be written by one person or sold by another. Oh, it is that also. But it is not.A TTRPG is a "State of Mind" you enter and share with others hopefully! It gives the same primal instinct thrill as when the Shaman told the tribe's tales and danced and the hunters talked of how the hunt would be.
Every old Grognard or first gen "Munchkin" has thought way too much about the rules, the world, the alternatives to the TTRPG hobby. Many of us have gone "What if?" through the years. Maxx and Me have been working on the design of this world but had given up on making NEW rules sets thanks to OSR. Why ask potential buyers to memorize a whole new set of rules? However now, it will be Hasbro's G-rated SLUDGE that they have 3 "Sensitivity Readers" go over to make sure no one no where is offended by them... I'd not EVER want to buy or play something produced by that so why should I support it in any way, that includes "Stealing" aka insisting I can do OSR 1.0 and waiting for the lawyers though the threat of suits can disrupt payment processors and webhosts - even Dreamhost would take down a real DMCA backed by a real lawyer planning to go to court. For a day, then put it back up when a counter-DMCA was filed - if it was a real complaint versus a Pirate Bay 2.0 thing.
But when you steal something, you argue its VALUE.
So -with all the producers going OSR holdout and waiting for lawsuits, why do I dare consider new rules?
Well you can't copyright or trademark a games rules system. Only, maybe, the expression and of course copyrighted property... Oh, wait, D&D is a rip-off of Jack Vance, Robert E Howard and VERY heavily TOlkien. There's almost NOTHING original in that Night Hag's Cauldron...! Even the "Unique" monsters are ChinaSaurs - crude, cheap "Dinosaur" figures made in the Walled City of Kowloon in tiny factories next to Brothels next to Schools next to Opium Dens... The whole game system and lore is a lawsuit magnet for what little isn't ancient folklore. Once someone takes them to court for real with a lawyer ready to do battle they'll lose. The problem is challenging such things in court takes too much time and money. And again argues the value.
So we'll make our OWN.
Now if you are familiar with "The Old Dragon Game" to use a key-word - you won't find our rules a hassle. We are going to juggle some ability scores but it'll make sense when you think of it. And add a stat or two. BUT we'll do our best to compress the mechanics into a few pages. Serious! AND we won't be CopyWRONG trolls. You'll be able to use the rules, no need to pay us!
The collection of critical, stats, die rolls, etc. can be simplified very easily. I'm going to shuffle them a bit, not fearful of Hasbro but rather would like to improve a bit. Some stats need to bleed into others. Its nothing anyone familiar with the core game would be confused over and a new one diving in wouldn't have trouble going back to the original.
Again, in a way I'm GLAD this is happening.
I was going to make stats using OSR based on 2.0 release of AD&D - but worried people from the 3.5 era (good!) and (aaarrrggg!) 4 and (Gaaahhhh!!!) 5 era would freak out. The woke I don't care about but new players/customers? I do care about those.
So if its my own simple rules, great.
And again, in the air, but if I think I make something good I'll "Open Source" it.
That means you couldn't copy the guidebooks and our art, but if you said "Orange Sun Rules" - whoops better make it "Far Tomorrows Rules" (FTR) or I WOULD get sued - remember Gary Gygax's post TSR projects? If you used those rules in your own project, I'd be flattered. Couldn't PAY you but wouldn't charge and if you did something we hated (a WOKE version by the Zwei-hander people!?) well free speech, free press. Even those Wokardz I'd let them do it - if say GDW gets covetous (they use Warhammer Fantasy Role Play base) and they need to make $ and use something. A hyper politically correct but fake Grimdark parody? Fine!
So hang tight people!
We are shifting gears just a little but luckily the last part was puppeting all the characters and monsters to an RPG system. I'm going to seek some review help so the launched ship doesn't sink but I can easily think of a new system and approximate scores. A very SIMPLE one that fits in a few pages and echoes "The classics" though is its own.
Magna Determinato!
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