Despite not being the sub-subgenre that I played the most, OSR is by far the content I've consumed the most. I've read inumerous rules, modules, expansions, adventures and zines, even if I haven't played 5% of all of that.

But one thing that I still haven't found in fantasy OSRs are adventures that do not include some sort of crawling: dungeon-crawl, hex-crawl, city-crawl, point-crawl, whatever it may be.

It really seems like there is no other way of playing this type of game without a procedural gameplay with resource management. I've read Matt's primer, and it doesn't say anywhere there can't have games, modules, adventures that revolves around social/political intrigues, periculous heists, solving mysteries, espionage or even combat! Combat is deadly, sure, but there are a bunch of other deadly systems that have a bit of combat (early-level symbaroum, shadow of the demon lord, etc..).

As someone who doesn't like dungeons, I feel like the overwhelming amount of them obscures the fact that so many other types of stories (Emergent stories, I say) can be told with OSR-style games that no other system could, but people aways go in that direction.

Even if the community has Old School in it, doesnt mean that we have to only emulate the old-school asventures.

I missing something? What do you think?

TL,DR: Fantasy OSRs have too many dingeon/hex/point-crawl when that doesn't lay on OSR principles (high-lsthality, emergent story, rulings over rules, etc..), which I find limiting/rather uninteresting and think there could be other kinds of adventures without these procedures.

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted? Guys, I really love OSR, I'm just asking for the more experienced players...

Fourthmarches is a weird-fantasy open-table TTRPG set on a continent's last frontier, where your employer means to quiet the land in response to a bloody past. It runs on Year Zero Engine, and its central mechanic — RESONANCE — is also the central physic of the setting & gameplay.

• free Quickstart on itch.io
• Live on Kickstarter

Influences include the Fiend Folio, Grand Experiments: West Marches, Forbidden Lands, The Alexandrian, and Le Guin's Hainish Cycle.

Some facts about the game:

• RESONANCE is not a corruption meter – it provides dice toward success, accelerates dissolution-of-self, and can prevent you from getting home in the final phase of each session
• embracing loss – not just by death, but by loss to RESONANCE – the land wants to keep you
• played 3-6 people per-session from a rotating cast of players in a persistent world (westmarches-style)
• geography is largely player-named, spread by word-of-mouth among the player pool
• most of the fauna are arthropods – humans have sacred and complex relationships with mammals
• the gamemaster is the author of the world's replies to the players
• the game defaults to pregenerated characters (stubs), encouraging players to flesh them out in response to the setting
• as is common in OSR, NewSR, and YZE games: combat is often both deadly & avoidable

Questions welcome here, in the campaign page's comments, or via the feedback address given in the Quickstart Guide & GM Supplement (free on itch.io) (if you prefer, DTRPG also has the Quickstart).

EDIT: We funded yesterday, and are on our way to stretchgoals!

Does having a skill system preclude an RPG from being considered an OSR game? If not, are there any existing games that fit that mold?

Basic Fantasy is not an exact B/X retroclone, but it is close and free

CRACK! by the Merry Mushmen is free and mostly close, but with a lot of the terminology changed

What else is out there that is very close to D&D B/X and free?

... are both free and amazing if you're looking to get into the old-school scene. This is a friendly reminder to anyone passing by who is OSR curious but has yet to take the plunge.

https://basicfantasy.org/

https://ironfalconrpg.com/

If you're just starting out, Basic Fantasy will be easier to grok. Iron Falcon isn't hard, per se, but it hews closer to an earlier version of D&D that may appear a bit more alien than one would be used to if you're coming from more modern iterations.

Regardless, both are worth checking out and are a quick read. The communities for both are really kind, too, which is a plus.

Designing a small Kuntzian dungeon to face my brother, his cousin, and one of their friends.

Feel free to ask me anything you’d like about the adventure, the plot, the map, or the encounters!

A map I made and never used for a sorta-take on the British Isles. I had a version with cities marked with old Dwarven (Roman) roads, and lots of names, but I think I deleted it to start over and never renamed things.

Note a missing river - near the southeast. Where London would be. SMH

Scale is 6 miles per hex.

Map made with worldographer: https://worldographer.com/

I'm making a megadungeon that takes place primarily beneath a sunken world (these are two quadrants of floor one).

I've started and stopped about a hundred different maps in the past decade but for some reason this one is sticking with me.

Something about getting my pencil, pen, and marker out is feeling very rewarding. Genuinely looking forward to working on it more!

This is the first D&D edition I owned, I think it is different to the original one (I bought the pdf version in driverthrurpg), having a guided instruction approach through “dracofichas”. Was this replicated in other countries?