Thanks! This one was getting really good, group dynamics were beginning to flourish and everyone was feeling comfortable with the system. I just started an online game using Skype and Maptool (my buddy is working on a Maptool frameset for OSH), I am sure I will be posting the actual play for it in the future as well.

I have to say, OSH seems to have slipped under the radar of many folks, I really expected to find more APs posted on the web, but there doesn't seem to be much.

Here is a game session I just finished tonight:
http://gkgames.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/old-school-hack-bellicose-keep-lives-again/

I think the system, now that I have played it, works really well, especially in a Tunnels & Trolls -like setting without the hangups I have with the T&T system. I played T&T a lot when I was growing up. I used to go down to the Flying Buffalo game store when I was a kid in the mid-late 70's and play. I think T&T is a much better system for solo-adventures than F2F games, but I liked the lighter and more magical-"fantasy" feel of it. D&D and then AD&D took over as the games we played with other people, and T&T when there was no one else to play with.

Congrats! OSH is the T&T game I can play with others! :) I have found the combat we played tonight to be more fun and memorable than when I ran this scenario using T&T *and* D&D. This scenario is one I wrote that was published with the T&T System for use with GRIP. Wow! So much more fun with OSH. Here's why:

OSH encouraged me as a DM to expand the play setting by thinking in terms of "arenas" instead of just a map. That added a brilliant dimension to the setting that instantly made it dynamic! I also added minions to the original encounter ... because I could, and it would make it more interesting. I was right. :)

OSH allowed the players, even the new ones (even the 4 year old!) to play by just telling me what they wanted to do...with very little coaching from me at all. Heck I have to coach the grownup players in my DnD4e game sometimes!

I set up this blog to record our games, so check back later to see more. :)

After playing the session, I thought that it was so well-played (a credible game session that anyone could imagine being in and having fun) that people would be surprised to see the ages of the players. So I figured that would be a cool secret to keep until the end. It's not that the game is geared toward "simpler minds" but rather that it was easy enough for the players to get all the essentials, and easy enough for the DM to manage and still be able to help out some. "Sillier" games are better for kids, IMO, and there was lots of laughter and cheers going on, and I prefer at least a little comic relief in all my games, even if just among the Metagame banter (e.g. the PAX Celebrity game).

I had six players for three and a half hours. This was the first time playing for 4 of the 6 players. We had a great time!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/old-school-hack-the-fictive-way/adventure-log/an-oscelot-of-trouble

I had three players for four and a half hours. This was the first time playing for one of the players. They wanted to continue past where I had scheduled the session, because they were having so much fun--a very good sign.

Here is an example of using Old School Hack for dungeon crawling. It worked better than I hoped.

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/old-school-hack-the-fictive-way/adventure-log/the-darkology-experiment

Here are some play reports over at Risus Monkey. I know some have already seen them, but it's great to have them together with other play reports.

http://www.risusmonkey.com/2010/11/temple-of-hentai-old-school-hack.html

http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/06/osh-karst-chantry-part-1-ap.html
http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/06/old-school-hack-ap-karst-chantry-part.html
http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/06/magical-awesome-karst-chantry-part-2b.html
http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/06/smells-like-bbq-karst-chantry-part-2c.html

I ran a session of Old School Hack in a Google+ Hangout, and I recorded both audio and video. You can watch here:

http://rpg.brentnewhall.com/2011/11/lets-play-an-interesting-rpg-episode-2-old-school-hack/

Ran a quick, improvised, game for my younger cousins, and their friends, on Saturday. They had a blast, and I enjoyed running it (stealing heavily from D&D adventures I've run in the past). Only two of the four of them really -got- the whole idea of Awesome Points the whole time - the other two were kind of playing catch-up.

I'm really looking forward to running another game, especially now that I've got a little better grasp of how to design encounters.

We had a great session run by a friend of mine, I've got the bare bones and some reflections on rulings here.

http://fictivefantasies.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/osh-the-new-world-session-1-reflections/

We had 5 players, all had played before, and the session was about 4+ hours. It was a sandbox setting that had the feel of a more traditional fantasy role playing game, so this system works fine played straight (not so gonzo) also. Good times!

Ran this game a few weeks ago, but it had a pretty complicated write-up that I just now finished. This adventures sets the stage, there are two more expected in Tulip's quest to confront the dragon.

This adventure took some setting up, to get all the various characters people wanted to play in position. Also, I was sick that night. However, it turned out really well.

The adventure is an OSH adaptation of the award winning Labyrinth Lord system adventure "Challenge of the Frog God" by Dyson Logos. (http://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/labyrinth-lord-challenge-of-the-frog-idol/) Enjoy!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/old-school-hack-the-fictive-way/adventure-log/search-for-the-mountain-door

Hey, any chance of a Podcast? You seem to be playing a ton of games and it would be great to have a play by play to listen to.

Well if you ever do Skype sessions where the recording is easy and the fore-knowledge that it was going to be posted was known I'd be down to help out with that.

I am not in this game, but I found it. These people are trying to do Old School Hack as blog entries. How about that.

http://interi.org/2012/03/tower-of-shadows/

First of all, you can recharge rested talents by spending 2 Awesome Points while not in combat. Second, you can spend 3 Awesome Points to cast spells that you have not bought for yourself, but are on your template. So, if you're loaded with Awesome Points, you can use the mystic attack repeatedly during combat untrained. Or the intimidation spell, etc. If you've taken a grimore as your first talent, you don't have any talents yet, but there are 10 spells you can cast at will for 3 Awesome Points each.

I had 5 players for 4 hours, we played Gothic fantasy, horror with Old School Hack. It was really fantastic; there was plenty of humor, but the horror was horrific, and the combat was intense and scary. Good time all around!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-world-between/adventure-log/adumbratis-by-night

Everybody leveled once, and 2 of the players leveled twice. So the Awesome Point economy works just fine in non-silly genres if the group is into it.

Thanks. I think the game went really well, we'll be vampire hunting some more in the not-too-distant future...