These Old Games

After more than a month, I am back to the   Sessions. , ,

X2 - Castle Amber 2026 - Session 6.0 Count Your Curses and Blessings Welcome to These Old Games, where old is new again. We cover video games, particularly for the Mac, D&D plus other RPGs and boardgames.

This is an old post from 2019, I wanted to reshare. It's an example of the odd blending of reality and fantasy that I try to bring into my   games.

https://www.theseoldgames.com/2019/10/tales-from-high-backed-booth.html

At the bottom of the post is a link to the "method to the madness" post I ripped off to explain where some of these ideas came from.

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Session 5.0 in Castle Amber. The party meets a Unicorn, the Wild Hunt, and some magic Squirrels. I also took a chance on using Chainmail rules with OSE, which worked nicely and really turned the tide with the Wild Hunt.

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What a great resource!

A stack of the AD&D 2e Complete Handbooks going to the shelves. The spine lettering hints at the graphical changes over their long run. I have the definitive printing photo reference to the Brown books; link in the comments. Enjoy! -Wayne

Resharing my review of Old School Essentials Basic Edition. The TL:DR is it's free on DriveThruRPG.com.

https://www.theseoldgames.com/2021/05/review-old-school-essentials-basic-rules.html

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Here is my latest post on X2 . This is a solo playthrough and I am sharing updated character sheets. Last time, I made some mistakes and this post mostly corrects them. , , ,

X2 - Castle Amber 2026 - Session 4.2 Character Updates - Officially Wrong Welcome to These Old Games, where old is new again. We cover video games, particularly for the Mac, D&D plus other RPGs and boardgames.

A partial update to my X2 Castle Amber Campaign. This is session 4.1, where mistakes were made. , , ,

X2 - Castle Amber 2026 - Session 4.1 Character Updates - Mistakes Were Made Welcome to These Old Games, where old is new again. We cover video games, particularly for the Mac, D&D plus other RPGs and boardgames.

This weekend is crazy. I only have a quick update.

The Mobile Post on Witches Welcome to These Old Games, where old is new again. We cover video games, particularly for the Mac, D&D plus other RPGs and boardgames.

Fiver is facing his nemesis, the stone unicorn. There can be only one! vs

I just noticed the linktree service and made an account.

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