How it feels being an OSR nerd with 5e friends

Yeah but everyone still just plays Dungeonbone, there’s no escaping it

That’s the shame of the whole thing.

What does old school RuneScape have to do with tabletop games?

Hmmm yes, I know some of those words.

I read this in the Interdimensional Cable voice

Systems Bitch actually sounds like a pretty rad mag. Where do I subscribe?

“Old School Renaissance” in this case, the revival of zine-style RPGs influenced directly by Basic+Expert DnD from the late 70s and early 80s. The term has been diluted somewhat from the original blog scene of the 2010s (ish), with some games being near-perfect clones of BX DnD like Old School Essentials to extremely rules-thin games that are almost better enjoyed as art projects (Mork Borg, Ultraviolet Grasslands) and everything between.

The contact info is on the sole of the boot. Clean it properly to reveal your entry code.

(Whispers) “Little biiiiits”

I could just make up a game on the fly for all the friends I’ve played with in the past and they probably wouldn’t even know. We always put more focus on the overall storytelling than the rules.

No no. It was a mistake learning to read QR codes.

It’s a hard life being a punter, but it beats having no taste

Next time your DM is unavailable, step in to DM a one shot in Iron Hope!

Most groups are open to a one shot in a different system, so if you’re up for it, suggest running one for Dungeon Crawl Classics or something. Or just use part of another system, like doing character creation in Traveler style but modified for a newer system.

I rolled back to a legacy BIOS and reviewed all the POST codes, but I don’t see anything called “sole” on boot

Also FWIW I read it more like “Systems, bitch!” for complaining about disorganized processes, or that writers bitch about various systems, or they write articles about how to make them your bitch. Regardless, sounds like something I’d find on the ground in Cyberpunk 2077.

I thought I was at least somewhat in tune with the RPG community, but… I know none of these names.

Anyone in the know interested in enlightening me?

One of us got wooshed rn, just not sure who…

Lol, should have Googled it first after all!

Here I was hoping I could get someone excited to geek out about how all these new-to-me systems play together!

As you’ve realised, these are fake, but these are the games I think they’re parodying:

• Ironsworn

• Apocalypse World, Blades in the Dark, and their many clones

• Golden Sky Stories

• Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast

• Lunar Echos

• Mausritter

• Dungeon Bitches