Scrying Devices (Video Channels)
Uncle Matt’s D&D Studio
Uncle Matt’s D&D Studio is about the freestyle, non-granular way of playing D&D that’s called “old-school” in the OSR — and while it doesn’t really have a name in the fifth edition D&D community, that free-style method of play is well established as one of the approaches to the game. Since the freestyle approach isn’t a precise overlap — system matters, after all — Uncle Matt’s D&D Studio has sections devoted specifically to the Traditional OSR and to Fifth Edition, as well as several sections of interest to both sections of the overall old-school community.
Sections Include:
Traditional OSR D&D
Fifth Edition Freestyle
Actual Play RPG Games
Past Live Streams
About Publishing for D&D and RPGs
Ol’ Man Grognard
Glen Hallstrom, who also goes by the moniker of “Smokestack Jones,” “DM Glen,” and “Ol’ Man Grognard,” is possibly the OSR’s most prolific product-reviewer in the video realms of the OSR. Possibly this is why he has so many alternate identities and pseudonyms.
Link to the channel’s home page
Questing Beast
The largest of the old-school video channels, Questing Beast is organized into playlists on various topics.
Playlists
Fantasy Mapmaking Tutorials for D&D
Tim Kask
For anyone who doesn’t know, Tim was the first true employee of TSR after Dungeons & Dragons began. He edited the original D&D supplements and also served as the first editor of the Dragon Magazine. Now, he’s on video, on the warpath, and handing out gaming wisdom.
Roll20
Conversation with Jason Hardy, Product Director of MeWe
Discussions on the G+ Exodus continue - this is a conversation between me and Jason Hardy, MeWe’s Product Director, about MeWe’s platform, services, and involvement in the OSR migration out of G+. Check it all out here at 7:00PM EST / 6:00PM...
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The Friday conversation video for this week is with Josh Beckelhimer. It’s mainly on the topic of one-page dungeons, both methods and theory, but we also dive into the topic of convention anxiety, which Josh and I happen to share.
read moreNon Human Player Codex (S&W, OD&D)
I’m going to start posting various links to reviews, mainly those of Glen Hallstrom. We’ll add more reviewers, or links to outside reviews, as time goes on. Non-Human Player Codex Reviewed by Ol’ Man Grognard System: Swords & Wizardry...
read moreSwords of Jordoba Episode 2 (pilot episode): 1978 D&D rules
In “Myriel, you had one job…” our adventurers now move on into the dungeon itself, beginning their subterranean rescue mission in search of the missing Sister Fracheska. An actual play adventure using Original D&D rules from 1978 in the modern Swords & Wizardry...
read moreSwords of Jordoba Episode 1 (pilot episode): 1978 D&D rules
Our adventurers begin their career! Tasked with an important rescue mission, they make their plans and prepare to enter the buried Old City of Jordoba, with their unusual baggage-carrier. Hilarity ensues for thirty minutes as our stalwart heroes consider their options. An actual play adventure using Original D&D rules from 1978 in the modern Swords & Wizardry...
read moreConversation with Jeff Rients
My conversation with Jeff Rients, author of Jeff’s Gameblog (http://jrients.blogspot.com/) covers a lot of ground, including one thought about D&D that took me entirely by surprise — we’ll call that the Rashomon epiphany. Unfortunately, Jeff’s connection is iffy, so he occasionally appears to be a computer-generated image of one of the robot...
read moreOl’ Man Grognard Reviews 77 - Blueholme Journeymanne Rules
I review the Blueholme Journeymanne Rules by Dreamscape Design. Links PDF: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/208800/BLUEHOLMETM-Journeymanne-Rules?src=hottest_filtered&coverSizeTestPhase2=true&word-variants=true Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=1315830...
read moreVince Florio talks Old School Fifth Edition D&D
Long-time first-edition (1e) D&D player Vince Florio talks with me about the interactions and overlaps of 1e and 5e, and how to play 5e D&D in an old school style. Vince has more than one ongoing podcast, if you want to see more from him: his twitter is @theEvilDM, the Marvel podcast he talks about is at http://classicfaserip.com, and his 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons show is at...
read moreWeird Fantasy and Jeff Talanian
Jeff Talanian is perhaps the master of weird fantasy in the Old School Renaissance, and his Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea stands beside D&D as a tremendously good genre-specific variant, allowing a much more streamlined avenue into the weird worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, and other authors of pulp weird fantasy, all designed for a free-form old school type of approach. I unbox a copy of AS&SH with Jeff online (note: I’ve seen the original boxed set already — Jeff and I...
read moreConversation with Tim Brannan (part 2)
Tim and I talk about adventure design here; he has a much greater focus on the progression of information than most writers I’ve talked to, and exploring that aspect of design was a lot of...
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