Hey all! JK here, writer and game designer (Maharlika, Karanduun, Gubat Banwa) from the Philippines! I’m mostly a poem/literature/philosophy nut but I love NSR/OSR stuff and it’s always been a dream of mine to explore the NSR space even more (most my favorite RPGs, such as Yokai Hunters Society, Kala Mandala, and Electric Bastionland are NSR) since it appeals to how I run games (DIY, anti-canon, table-first, world-first, all that good stuff)
thrilled to be here, let’s make forums hot again
Hello! My handle is Window Dump, I got it from a Linux utility. I’m a technical, computer-oriented guy who loves getting into the weeds to solve problems. I like RPG’s with flexible rules and simple math so I don’t get distracted crunching numbers or looking things up instead of telling a story or solving problems creatively. The first RPG that got my attention was Risus, and I played a bit of Labyrinth Lord about 15 years ago. Last year I found FIST by looking up the “pbta” tag on Itch and pulled on its inspirations and contemporaries until I got here.
Recently I discovered I could make PDF’s with Typst and I’m sharpening my skills with it - making stuff is fun! I have a local table that’s wrapping up a Cyberpunk RED game - we’re looking to start a short Blades in the Dark game after, then keep playing different games.
Hi all, I go by queuedawg here and by wratbasted on most other sites. I am big into N/OSR games and occasionally venture out into other genres, too. Some of my favorites at the moment are Whitebox FMAG, His Majesty the Worm, Cairn, and Dolmenwood.
Like a seemingly large quantity of RPG folks, I am an IT worker, though I try to keep my games as un-computerized as possible.
I don’t think I’ve been on a proper forum in quite a while! It’s good to be back and beyond 140/300/however many characters-per-post.
Hey all, Gabriel Watcher here. I’ve been playing ttrpgs since 1993. I started with recon and this weird Arthurian cyber fantasy game (I don’t know the title), graduated to ad&d 2nd edition and started dming immediately. I’ve played all kinds of games over the decades. Decided in 2018 or so that I wanted to learn how to publish stuff so I started cooking up WatcherDM. We’ve now published 50 some odd different adventures, games or “other”. You can check it all out at https://watcherdm.com. Anyway, I’m having a blast, learning a lot, creating stuff I’d like to use. In game I’m a level 47 software developer specced into art and buffoonery.
Hey everyone, I’m Rowan. I started with D&D 3.5 about fifteen years ago and got into the OSR about five years ago. These days I’m most interested in NSR games, particularly the ItO/Mausritter/Cairn branch (and I’m dabbling in FKR). I’ve been blogging regularly of late, and I’m also doing Dungeon25! Excited to be here—most Discord servers are too fast-paced and chatty for me
Howdy everyone, I’m Clark.
I’ve done some design work for myself (and one company I can’t name quite yet), and I a lil blog on the side (theweepingstag.wordpress com).
As today this might be a good place to meet some like minded folks, and learn a thing or two.
Also I’m a huge trekkie
Hello!
I’m Ari-Matti, also known as Wuggy. I’m a long-time TTRPG player and referee, and more recently a TTRPG artist and developer. I do illustration for other people’s games and adventures and with what little time I have I create my own stuff.
I love rules-lite, horror and experimental games as a referee, and as a player I just like to experience as many games and playstyles as I can.
And I love forums!
Hi. I’m Stephen. I run games and would like to publish my own adventure one day.
Discord is to fast for me so I thought I’d try this.
Hello, I’m Barnum! I’ve loved reading RPG books since I was a kid but I was only able to start playing them on a regular basis about a decade ago. Over the last couple of years, I’ve started lurking in OSR spaces more frequently and last year I finally started playing OSR games.
My goals:
Short-term: Playtest people’s awesome modules and continue to make friends in the OSR Community.
Mid-term: Run a sandbox campaign filled with classic OSR modules.
Long-term: Design, test, and publish my own dungeon.
Hello! I started playing earnestly when my son asked me to run a game after he learned that I played in the late 80s. Back then I played a little BX and Raistlin in Dragonlance (AD&D).
Now, adventure games are my mid-life crises. Instead of buying something ridiculous like a Porsche I spend too much on game books. I’ve gravitated towards rules-light systems and have a penchant for roll-under. I buy more books than I can read and read more than I can ever play. I earnestly try to go through each book.
Cyberpunk and sci-fi are my main jam but haven’t gotten a group yet to play some.
Hi everyone. I’m Illithid (or Illithid72) on everything.
I’ve been playing ttrpgs for about 20 years now starting with some d20 Star Wars game and quickly moving to 3.5 and PF. Over the years I found out that Call of Cthulhu was my real passion and, now, Delta Green. All of that said I am very interested in horror, grim dark, and similar games. Lately I’ve been playing around with running OSR style games.
I love running and playing games. I’ve streamed a few and used to stream regularly before my work responsibilities grew. I think that’s it for a general ramble.
Hello everybody! I’ll probably end up lurking more than posting, but I’m excited to be here.
I was born in this century but my first rpgs were actually 1.5e and Rolemaster in middle school, over the decade since then, I drifted through mainstream dnd but quickly found myself much more at home in OSR and Indie territory. I’ve been mainly running a mix of OSR and storygames recently: Heart, Cairn, Bastards, and now His Majesty the Worm (which I’ve fallen in love with).
I’m now running an open-ish table with about 13 players and another GM, kind of a weird experiment but a ton of fun so far.
Hi there.
I’m Phil, a 40 something warden from France. I have bought a lot of different systems over the years, but realized that my preference is running rules lite systems such as Into the Odd and its siblings. I might try to run a third Burning Wheel campaign at some point, I really have a soft spot for it (it can be pretty rules lite if you remove the crunchy fight! subsystem).
I’m running a weekly online table in French, currently starting a Cloud Empress campaign (a Mothership hack set in a scifi fantasy world).
Hello Cauldron World!
My name is Scott and I am an avid gamer and old-school aficionado.
I came here from Yochai’s blog post about forums looking for a safe haven from social media and where I can share and learn from other like-minded folks.
See you around. 
Scott M.
Hello!
My name is Matt. I live in Philadelphia. I enjoy playing TTRPGs in my limited free time, preferring OSR and storygames. I’m a big fan of free culture, CC, open source, and folk D&D. I’m bad at social media, in that I have a hard time engaging with it on a consistent basis. The same could be said for forums. I’m great at lurking and consuming content, and working on getting better at sharing and connecting with folks online. Glad to find this space. Thanks for the blog post @yochaigal
Hello, I’m Brian and, like Matt above, also live in Philadelphia! Thank you everyone for sharing your stories, I really enjoy seeing what people are doing and how they have come into the hobby.
I got into RPGs in the early 90’s by being fascinated with the strange tomes of AD&D I saw in the mall hobby shop and eventually getting my dad to buy me some. I only got to run a few sessions for friends that quickly went off the rails, but the ideas stayed with me for the last 25 years. Covid hit, and in October 2020 a poster on a now dying video game website called Shacknews posted about how you should DM 5e for your friends using the intro adventure of Lost Mine of Phandelver. I asked my some childhood friends and wife if they would be interested, thinking they would quickly turn me down, but was shocked when they all enthusiastically agreed. I have been running regular biweekly sessions for them ever since.
In that time I’ve run these busy non-gamer types through 5e D&D, PbtA through way of World of Dungeons, my own homebrew FKR/Risus type system, Knave 2e, and Cairn. While currently running a campaign using the new 2024 D&D rules I have decided Into the Odd and Cairn based games are the only thing I really want to run. Happy to play any system, but my peanut brain just can’t take modifiers or DCs!
I look forward to chatting with others and seeing this community grow, as I think community of any type is desperately needed in the world right now.
wait, you -for real- wanna playtest a module? i got something to throw at you! warning. its long and uh, has singing.
Hi! I’m Ashu (@ashvg on - I think - everything)
I’ve been playing RPGs for a long time (since I was like 10, though that’s also just 2014 for me) and am currently really into Mausritter, Cairn, and the like. I’m probably not going to be super active here or in the OSR-creator-space generally, but I’ll pop in sometimes!
On the design side of things, I’m still working on my desi Cairn hack about the Maratha shiledar (knights?) and Konkani ghosts. It’s fun and exhausting and almost done! And y’all have been a huge help so I want to stick around and keep sharing ideas and learning from y’all also.
Hey I’m Dollface Killah (real name, no gimmicks) and I used to play lots of thicc, crunchy A4 games like Polaris until Covid gave me brain damage. Now I play skinny, light A5 games like Polaris so I can save my cognitive load for getting distracted by my phone.
slaps cover of book You can fit so many adventures in this bad boy.
I’d take a bunch of these over a fancy car any day, so you’re in good company. 