Through Ultan's Door #1: OSR DnD Zine Review

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[@samchafin4623]

This review made me think of this little rubric which could be used for the basis of a random generator for dream creatures: The creature is a (creeping, sneezing, hopping, quivering) (blue, soft, ashen, cold) (doll, caterpillar, judge, catapult) with [choose one] (tiny, red, jagged, soulless) (eyes, stripes, hinges, claws) [or] (a trowel, the bible, a cicada, a throne) for its (hands, eyes, sword, shoes) [or] (wings, bricks, teeth, lies) in its (tail, coat, heart, eyes). Enjoying the reviews! Hope someone's imagination is kicked off by this.

[@mikegould6590]

Informative and inspiring. You've given me some great ideas for my own campaign just by listening to you.

[@TheNerdySimulation]

Always love me some Dream-themed RPG content. Been recently working on something akin to that for my current campaign and one of the Planar locales of my cosmology, probably with some Lovecraftian influences.

[@BrooksSligh]

Oh man that's gorgeous. I'm positively weak for zines so this is right up my alley. Also, oh a related note my copies of Mothership just got delivered today! Can't wait to go home & grab them then completely derail tonight's D&D session... Additionally that teaser from next week looks really nifty. Still have my old 2nd ed Sha'ir's handbook kicking around at home mostly held together with Scotch tape (don't judge me, I was 12 when I grabbed it). Played a Sha'ir for a grand total of two sessions before he was disemboweled by an invisible sorceress while waiting on my little genie dude to come back with a spell.

[@euansmith3699]

The God being a physical/metaphysical part of the setting sounds like a really Weird Tales/Lankhmar feel to it.

[@internisus]

Wow, I've actually found an awesome artisan RPG zine that's still in print!

[@mwhite212]

Sounds like that last book might have been inspired by a comic published by First in the early to mid- 80's called "The Black Flame."

[@ooccttoo]

So this module really intrigues me but there's just one thing I can't for the life of me figure out (perhaps because I'm very new to OSR content): what game is this supposed to be used with? In a specific edition of D&D? In a D&D clone? Or is it supposed to be used with any system of your choice and you tweak it a bit? At the moment the only D&D system I have is 5e, but I'm happy to invest in a more old-school system if there's one you recommend. at 3:50 you say it's "probably written for very early editions of D&D" so does that mean it doesn't really matter what system you use?

[@QuestingBeast]

Exactly. Most OSR systems are compatible with each other with very minor tweaking. Old School Essentials, B/X D&D, LotFP, Basic Fantasy, etc should all work fine.

[@BenA718]

Excellent review!

[@misomiso8228]

where have you been Questing?! We are missing our uploads! hope all is well.

[@peterwiezorek6478]

Really love your reviews. One question: Any recommendations for a good book with small challenges / traps / interesting things to put in a dungeon or any weird place? I got the blue medusa but it's really hard to mine it because I definitely want to run it at some point.

[@QuestingBeast]

Sounds like what you need is the Tome of Adventure Design. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZekaX6OqaeYq7s

[@JohnMarron]

No Ben, but I've gotten some good use out of The Dungeon Alphabet, and The Fourthcore Alphabet for randomly generating dungeon elements.

[@walkingthepath3975]

Another great Video!

[@danieltaylor3755]

IS this a solo game?

[@QuestingBeast]

No, it's an adventure module.