LogFAQs > #923684973

My Thursday night D&D group is taking a brief hiatus because one of my players had to fire another one of my players from a job. That type of awkwardness requires a little time to diffuse. *shrugs* What can you do, right?

In the meantime, I've been continuing my research into different types of OSR play (i.e. D&D retroclones). Got immersed in the differences between the White Hack and the Black Hack, so, surprise, there's one dev who took bits and pieces of each and made a sort of 'zebra' hack called Macchiato Monsters. Going to give that a try and see how it plays, though I'm at the the point where I'm using White Box FMAG as my measuring stick. (There's also a Red Hack, a Blue Hack, and so on; it's a bit silly.) Missed the window to back Old School Essentials (formerly B / X Essentials) on Kickstarter, but I'm looking at backing the Red Book, a massively upgraded version of the Black Book, which is itself derived from the Rules Cyclopedia.

There's a saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but I guess this is a bit more like stacking up dwarves until one of them can see the horizon.

The table next to mine at the Wednesday night session (the D&D 2E one I mentioned way above) is running Mutant Crawl Classics. I don't play that, but it's a lot of fun to listen to.
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