Alternate Defense for Forgotten Ballad

Over the summer, I had tons of fun playing Fellipe da Silva's Forgotten Ballad with the kids at a camp I worked at. There is a ton to love about this acutely minimalist system! I've been cleaning up and posting some of the things I made for my students over on itch for the Forgotten …

A half-idea about rumors

I just had an idea for generating rumors that are false but contain some grain of truth. Basically, you write down something fact, then you change it slightly twice with two completely different angles. Then you combine those two angles to create something incorrect. The players might hear any one of the instances without knowing …

Wordle Hex Map Expansion

I just came across this year-old blog post on Loot the Room. Basically, they share a method for generating hex maps based on the color key of a given day's Wordle. Check that out first because I don't feel like reiterating too much of it. What I'm sharing here is my own elaboration on the …

Comparison of Odd-Like OSR Systems

This is the first in a series of posts detailing design variations between Into the Odd and a variety of games that have been derived from it. My aim is to create a design vocabulary to streamline the creation of systems in this sub-genre. Eventually, I will simplify a lot of this information for easy …

Ability Scores are NOT Concrete

If anyone else has thought or written about this let me know in the comments! I'll be using Into the Odd's roll under system and the inventory system from my own Ouroboros and Ouroboros(OnO) system for my example. Let's imagine a character called Ludovic who has a STR score of 18 and another character called …