Ordure Fantasy, a 1d6 OSR ruleset in a blogpost

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I recently released the PDF of my super simple 1d6 OSR ruleset (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/324369/Ordure-Fantasy) but I also made a blogpost with the core rules and classes available so people could play for free, check it out here: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2020/08/ordure-fantasy-1d6-osr-ruleset.html

The system is based heavily on my d6 Cyberpunk game “Shit Future” (http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2020/04/shit-future-d6-cyberpunk.html).

My goal was to make a fantasy OSR game as simple and easy to pick up as possible.

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#2

The Ordure roll seems really cool. It feels like a solo rpg thing, like a mini oracle for the Referee.

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Yeah it is like a mini oracle I guess! That’s a cool way of looking at it.

#5

I love this - I’m a big fan of some of your random tables elsewhere (especially your L1 Creature Generator) and I’m glad to see more here.

The two-dimensional reaction table is particularly ingenious - I never thought to separate “tone” from “intent” in reaction tables before but it’s so, so good. That technique is also broadly applicable to many of the other random tables I use as well. You inspired me to do the same for some random room generation tables, separating “flavor” from “mechanically interesting room feature.”

Thanks for sharing!

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#6

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you like the reaction table. Breaking apart components of table is a great way to super charge the amount of results you can get, and the variability/weirdness of those results.

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#7

I like the hit = 1 HP mechanic. I’ve been spoiled by ItO now where I just want one roll for combat. I think it’s a cool way to keep the feel of DnD while simplifying things down to a single roll

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