1. One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me:
How to Awesome-Up Your Players
2. My favorite piece of OSR wisdom/advice/snark:
The player characters aren't special in the world, but they are the stars of the show. Let them do what they want, but show them no unearned mercy.
3. Best OSR module/supplement:
Veins of the Earth, probably.
4. My favorite house rule (by someone else):
As much as I want to say carousing, it might actually be Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter, Dollar.
5. How I found out about the OSR:
It was a perfect storm of factors. Seven-ish years ago, I used to run mostly modern horror (largely Call of Cthulhu and World of Darkness), and hadn't really ever tried D&D. (I'd read the rules, though.) A friend on Facebook told me the Escapist had some show about porn stars playing D&D. I don't know what I expected, but I figured that might be amusing once. It turned out that it was just a group of people playing D&D, and their gaming experience looked a lot like mine. From there I found D&D With Porn Stars, then Vornheim, and then the cool stuff coming out of Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Coincidentally, this happened to be at just the same time some friends asked me to run D&D for the first time.
The OSR was the first time I really "got" D&D.
6. My favorite OSR online resource/toy:
I tend to use the fantasy book generator at Abulafia a fair amount. (It's not explicitly OSR, but Donjon is my most frequent reference when fantasy gaming.)
7. Best place to talk to other OSR gamers:
I tend to lurk more than talk, but you get some neat discussions over in the DCC G+ and the LotFP G+ groups. (And now they're in one place!)
8. Other places I might be found hanging out talking games:
The Tabletop Dungeon and Unknown Armies Fan Club (both on Facebook) are where you'll find me talking in communities. (I'm also at Tabletop & LARP RPGs Advice & Inspiration, but it's not as active. More's the shame.) If you just want to corner me in a digital back alley and have an old-fashioned cyber-knife fight, I'm on Instagram, MeWe, Tumblr, Twitter, and probably some other platforms I'm forgetting. I'm PsychicMayhem#4596 over on Discord.
9. My awesome, pithy OSR take nobody appreciates enough:
I don't understand why we're still arguing about whether or not we should like Zak S. when we should all be able to agree RPGPundit is pretty insufferable.
10. My favorite non-OSR RPG:
Unknown Armies.
11. Why I like OSR stuff:
The rules are simple enough to stay out of the way, and the ideas are innovative enough to keep my attention.
12. Two other cool OSR things you should know about that I haven’t named yet:
Last Gasp Generators should be in your Bookmarks. You should be reading Goblin Punch — if you play a druid in my campaigns, I will invariably force you to read 7 Myths Everyone Believes About Druids.
13. If I could read but one other RPG blog but my own it would be:
That's some Sophie's Choice bullshit, but the correct answer is always Jeff's Gameblog.
14. A game thing I made that I like quite a lot is:
My name generator based on U.S. Census data is the thing I wish I had when I was fourteen. The Hundred [mass]Acre Deathcrawl is more explicitly OSR retrostupid.
15. I'm currently running/playing:
D&D 5e, LotFP, and Unknown Armies.
16. I don't care whether you use ascending or descending AC because:
I'm not a fucking coward. Also, I usually keep this printed on an index card:
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