OSSR Request Thread

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:48 am

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Do Mouseguard. Seriously. Not because I think it's an awful game, because it's not, because it's a really odd duck.

I am completely throwing in my vote for this. This forum has mentioned it on occasion, but all of the real discussion about it veered into Burning Wheel. I've read it and it looks fascinating, but I can't justify trying to convince a group to try it out unless I know more of what I'm getting into.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:40 pm

Any chance of us getting an OSSR of Al-Qadim?

From what I've seen of it, it's sort of like the Torneko's Story of 2E D&D. While it's not great on its own, it's so unusual and experimental that people like it anyway. And hey, it at least got a video game adaptation -- which is more than fucking Nentir Vale could manage.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:41 am

I'd like to see a review of the Diablo II d20 port.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:02 am

Well as far as I can find, I no longer have the Monsters of Faerun book, and do not wish to pirate it, so I cannot do the review. That said, it's not a pile of awfulness like some of these. It has a whole bunch of shit about which you do not care, as all monster books do, and it has MOAR DRAGONZ, of course, but it also gives some gems:

Variant liches: not totally fucking shit, though props for the Good Lich getting Animate Dead at will. You know, [Evil] tag lol.
Cloaker Lords: this isn't just the boring "Cauchemar Nightmare: a Nightmare with more hit dice!" Actually gets new abilities and can boss its lessers about with ease. Should have been called a Caper but oh well.
Beholder variants, including the best familiar ever, a "Beholder" that is a couple of inches tall and has eyes of Flare, Inflict Minor Wounds, Mage Hand and Ray of Frost. If you make it a Familiar (Improved Familiar, level 1, Evil only), you can deliver your Touch spells through its eye beams. Haxx!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:38 am

I have a copy of Monsters of Faerun, but I'm not sure if I have the time to do a review of the whole book anytime soon.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:53 am

Koumei wrote:Well as far as I can find, I no longer have the Monsters of Faerun book, and do not wish to pirate it, so I cannot do the review. That said, it's not a pile of awfulness like some of these. It has a whole bunch of shit about which you do not care, as all monster books do, and it has MOAR DRAGONZ, of course, but it also gives some gems:

Variant liches: not totally fucking shit, though props for the Good Lich getting Animate Dead at will. You know, [Evil] tag lol.

Cloaker Lords: this isn't just the boring "Cauchemar Nightmare: a Nightmare with more hit dice!" Actually gets new abilities and can boss its lessers about with ease. Should have been called a Caper but oh well.

Beholder variants, including the best familiar ever, a "Beholder" that is a couple of inches tall and has eyes of Flare, Inflict Minor Wounds, Mage Hand and Ray of Frost. If you make it a Familiar (Improved Familiar, level 1, Evil only), you can deliver your Touch spells through its eye beams. Haxx!

I've actually started a review myself. This book's main problem is a lack of understanding of 3rd edition. It has many good ideas that are crippled by execution.
• The liches are horribly inconsistent. The special abilities range from a 30' death gaze to a full-round action to make two ranged attacks (one at -5) dealing 3d10 with a 15' range increment.
• Cloaker lords are cool and interesting monsters, however they are better than a 9th level wizard in every way at CR 7:bash:. There are a lot of these, monsters that will be effective in the hands of a skilled DM and TPKs when used by someone new to the system.
• The eyeball beholderkin is one of my favorite monsters in the book. The other beholderkin leave much to be desired. This includes the first printing of the Beholder Mage prestige class, which makes the beholder weaker for taking the first few levels and absurdly overpowered once they take enough.

DragonChild · Post by **DragonChild** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:04 pm

I feel like doing some of these. Would people prefer:

-The Diablo 2 D&D book
-WoW d20
-Other

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:30 pm

DragonChild wrote:I feel like doing some of these. Would people prefer:

-The Diablo 2 D&D book
-WoW d20
-Other

Knowing next to nothing about WoW, casual peeks aside, I'd be interested in a review from someone who could compare WoW d20 against the MMO's early days and today's status. Would be interesting if someone who joined WoW say, 1 year ago, could recognize this as "genuine" WoW.

P.S: Weren't there two WoW tabletop RPGs?

DragonChild · Post by **DragonChild** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:40 pm

There was originally a Warcraft tabletop RPG before WoW itself came out. When WoW came out, the tabletop RPG was re released as a WoW RPG.

I can't find my Diablo 2 RPG books, so even though there's a previous request of that, I'm going to do some WoW RPG books instead.

Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:00 am

Is anyone particularly interested in review Adventure Conquerer King? It's a retro-clone that has some genuinely brilliant ideas, especially for high-level play. But it's adherence in many areas to 80s-era D&D makes it pretty unpalatable to the typical Denizen.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:17 am

Blicero wrote:Is anyone particularly interested in review Adventure Conquerer King?

I'd love to hear this.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:58 am

Has anyone done a review of After Sundown or Tomes?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:14 am

Technically that wouldn't be an OSSR, and I'm not sure how much value there'd be in it, since people know them pretty well here...

On the other hand, if anyone finds a review of them from another site, I'd love to see it.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:16 am

OgreBattle wrote:Has anyone done a review of After Sundown or Tomes?

What's the point? The author is right there. You can literally just go post in the relevant thread if you think something is bad and why.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:06 pm

I nominate Dungeons: the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition.

Download links:

Book 1.6 bookmarked
Book 2.2 ("For a Few Subtitles More"), bookmarked

echoVanguard · Post by **echoVanguard** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:27 pm

I'd really enjoy a Frank & AH tag-team review of the 3.5 Tome of Magic. I think it'd dovetail nicely with the recent review of Magic of Incarnum.

echo

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:13 pm

For all the ridicule it's gotten on the den, why has nobody done the Epic Level Handbook? A review like that should be a riot.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:25 pm

Well, for one, Mistborn already did it.

I'll review anything if somebody does a drunk review of every Farcast entry.

...yes, I'm a terrible person. But you know I'm good for it.

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:49 pm

Ancient History wrote:Well, for one, Mistborn already did it.

I'll review anything if somebody does a drunk review of every Farcast entry.

...yes, I'm a terrible person. But you know I'm good for it.

I think I have the fortitude for it, but I know I don't have the liquor for it.

I've come into possession of Double Cross, a Japanese supers kitchen sink RPG which reads like it was made in the 90s and Cosmic Bumfights/Unknown Armies, which was made in the 90s but is semi-contemporary but still 90s as hell. Would anyone be interested in seeing a drunk review of games the Den wouldn't normally cover?

codeGlaze · Post by **codeGlaze** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:12 am

Mask_De_H wrote: I think I have the fortitude for it, but I know I don't have the liquor for it.

I've come into possession of Double Cross, a Japanese supers kitchen sink RPG which reads like it was made in the 90s and Cosmic Bumfights/Unknown Armies, which was made in the 90s but is semi-contemporary but still 90s as hell. Would anyone be interested in seeing a drunk review of games the Den wouldn't normally cover?

I think the question is... ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?!111

I love OSSRs, I learn things from them.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:19 am

One of the benefits of maintaining the collection thread is I have an excuse to read all of them thoroughly.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:56 am

Warhammer Bestiary.

I love the way they've written it up with the first half being in-world descriptions of monsters divided into "common knowledge", "expert knowledge", and "in their own words", then all the stat blocks are collected in the back.

It's a really fun read. I have no idea if it's mechanically balanced though.

Schleiermacher · Post by **Schleiermacher** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:14 pm

I'd really like an OSSR of FantasyCraft.

Redshirt · Post by **Redshirt** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:02 am

Yeah, after Fectin's list, I'd like to see that too.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:23 am

I mentioned in, I think, Ghoul Fatal Addiction's OSSR that I should review Freak Legion and Possessed. Is there interest in that?