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Post Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:53 pm 
 

OSRIC, the Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is, to quote the introduction...:

OSRIC Introduction and Purpose wrote:...intended to reproduce the underlying rules used in the late 1970s to early 1980s, which being rules are not subject to copyright, without using any of the copyrighted "artistic presentation" originally used to convey tose rules.  In creating this new "artistic presentation," we have made use of the System Reference Document produced by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.


OSRIC is available at http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/

Check it out, and if you like it, pass the word.  

Discussion about OSRIC and Q&A about the rules are ongoing on The Delver's Dungeon @ http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/forums/, The Knights & Knaves Alehouse @ http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb/index.php, and Dragonsfoot @ http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/index.php.


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Post Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:47 pm 
 

Grodog,

I have to add something to this thread:

having read what you've done, I'm very impressed.


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Post Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:51 pm 
 

Thanks Stephen, but it's not really my work (I'm still editing, actually ;) )---Matt and Stuart are the guys who did all of the legwork.  I'm just helping out, and hoping to revive some old-school publishing efforts.

Like, say, your stuff, for example :D


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Post Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:50 am 
 

grodog wrote:Thanks Stephen, but it's not really my work (I'm still editing, actually ;) )---Matt and Stuart are the guys who did all of the legwork.  I'm just helping out, and hoping to revive some old-school publishing efforts.

Like, say, your stuff, for example :D


I'd love to see that.


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Post Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:54 am 
 

Shoot me an email, Steve, and we'll get started again where we left off last time :D


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Post Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:41 pm 
 

grodog wrote:Shoot me an email, Steve, and we'll get started again where we left off last time :D


I would, except I don't have any of the stuff that was auctioned off (I didn't keep copies and I haven't heard for months from the people who bought them and were thinking of knocking them into shape for print).

But OSRIC is the perfect chance to put it all together.


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Post Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:55 pm 
 

Hmmmm.  OK, I'll have to see what's feasible then....


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Post Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:29 pm 
 

grodog wrote:Hmmmm.  OK, I'll have to see what's feasible then....


If the guys who bought it will work with you, I think you are in business with it.

Wish I could offer you more, but they are all on this board, so this is the place to contact them.


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:13 am 
 

The first OSRIC-basd module, "The Pod-Caverns of the Sinster Shroom", is available as a pdf from rpgnow.com, and pre-order for a print version.
See this thread on Dragonsfoot:

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19129

Nice cover art & product desing. Interior font is Century Gothic, same as D1 etc.

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:39 pm 
 

I'm curious if anyone has seen this, and for those that have, who has pre ordered it:
http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/ ... 277412.htm

I got 2 plus its only $1 shipping in the USA.

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:13 pm 
 

grodog wrote:Hmmmm.  OK, I'll have to see what's feasible then....


BTW, OSRIC has convinced me to sell my old woodgrain boxed set, when Paul has time for it.  I held on to it because I didn't like the flavor of somethings, but I like OSRIC.


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:18 pm 
 

Ethesis wrote:
BTW, OSRIC has convinced me to sell my old woodgrain boxed set, when Paul has time for it.  I held on to it because I didn't like the flavor of somethings, but I like OSRIC.


Steve, are you sure its not the recent price surge that convinced you to sell it. :wink:


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:31 pm 
 

Plaag wrote:I'm curious if anyone has seen this, and for those that have, who has pre ordered it:
http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/ ... 277412.htm

I got 2 plus its only $1 shipping in the USA.

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"Sinister Shroom" sounds like something my dorm buddies in my college days might have been chowing down on to get high on the weekends....then again, I have always been strangely fearful of fungus.  A 6 foot tall walking mushroom trying to rip your head off would be pretty frikken scary. I'm thinking about ordering one, will they only be available online or at some point offered commercially?

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:34 pm 
 

Badmike wrote:
"Sinister Shroom" sounds like something my dorm buddies in my college days might have been chowing down on to get high on the weekends....then again, I have always been strangely fearful of fungus.  A 6 foot tall walking mushroom trying to rip your head off would be pretty frikken scary. I'm thinking about ordering one, will they only be available online or at some point offered commercially?

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Thats why I liked A4.

Only around 250 will be printed (the link leads to the printed version), otherwise it will always be a PDF (which is $5).

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(correction: jgbrowning states around 250, not 200 as I originally had)


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Post Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:04 am 
 

Plaag wrote:I'm curious if anyone has seen this, and for those that have, who has pre ordered it:
http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/ ... 277412.htm

I got 2 plus its only $1 shipping in the USA.


I ordered two print copies this morning.


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Post Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:23 am 
 

bclarkie wrote:
Steve, are you sure its not the recent price surge that convinced you to sell it. :wink:


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Post Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:23 am 
 

bclarkie wrote:
Steve, are you sure its not the recent price surge that convinced you to sell it. :wink:


No, mine is like a third printing, not a first printing, and I covered it with contact paper, so it doesn't have near the value.  I'm just clearing things out here and there.  By the time I get hold of Paul Stomber (I left him a pm here) and actually do anything, if he is interested, the surge ought to be over.


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:08 pm 
 

Ethesis wrote:
No, mine is like a third printing, not a first printing, and I covered it with contact paper, so it doesn't have near the value.  I'm just clearing things out here and there.  By the time I get hold of Paul Stomber (I left him a pm here) and actually do anything, if he is interested, the surge ought to be over.


Got hold of Paul, he'll probably be able to get around to selling my stuff in November or December, I've got two boxes of stuff packed up and am expecting to get a third box of stuff from storage -- old Different Worlds (issues 1-6) the two best Quick Quincy Gazettes (two semi-clerical character classes for Dwarves -- smiths and masons, and the best alternate cleric character class I've seen), lots of misc. stuff and all the world of darkness stuff I picked up -- Changling and such.


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