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I played Wastoid a while back as a playtest. I am a big Fallout fan and Wastoid fit my ttrpg tastes and has some strong Fallout flavor. I did an exploration section, a section with NPCs and a combat. Combat was using some OSR I found that closest fit the Fallout vibe. First they had to fix a lighthouse, which was fine, I used the faction tables and exploration I liked along with the players. Then, they turned on a power station and combat was quick and brutal, 2 players went down but they fixed the power station. The table was so happy when the new characters both had hacking, which made the robot infested station much easier and interesting. One character that was rolled was a robot and they liked how there was risk and reward. Go in head first and you can get junk to heal yourself and you are immune to radiation making rushing in a good idea. But if you got hurt you lose valuable junk to healing yourself.  From Bethesda   Slots were something my players were mindful of and t...

You may know me for being an OSR (Open Strategic Resources) blogger, a section of the TTRPG hobby that focuses on games that call back to earlier editions of Dungeons and Dragons. Recently I found an Ebay listing (costing around $2000) on for a copy of an old game from my childhood.  This game came in a box set, unfortunately I lost the box while moving. It has some things that are sorely missed in an age of Dr Who Artilocks and Spongebob omni classes. It was more grounded, being a game of heroic fantasy. It had no crit chains and success percentages. Instead it had "Advantage" and "Disadvantage". It only had 20 levels and you had much less choice in abilities. Kids today would be bored out of their minds! Character creation was so simple. In an hour you could create a complete character. Pick your species, background, class and equipment. Maybe a subclass and spells depending on your choices.    The old lady gave me a set of her physical dice You had so much contro...