OSR Recommend any of these games?

[Quickleaf]

I have Down We Go, but have never played it. I think at a certain point I just searched itch.io by the tag "FKR" and downloaded as many free games as I could. Those are all games that might benefit from the procedures in a game like Errant, but are themselves not procedure-heavy. A lot of those games take inspiration from blades in the dark in particular ways as well.

I must have missed it - what does FKR stand for?

Interesting! I’ve really enjoyed reading and running a bit of Freebooters on the Frontier (Jason Lutes, in playtest) which is a bit of DungeonWorld, some PbtA and BotD ideas, and a bunch of stuff from AD&D and B/X.

 

[Malmuria]

I must have missed it - what does FKR stand for?

Interesting! I’ve really enjoyed reading and running a bit of Freebooters on the Frontier (Jason Lutes, in playtest) which is a bit of DungeonWorld, some PbtA and BotD ideas, and a bunch of stuff from AD&D and B/X.

FKR stands for "free kriegsspiel revival," and it's complicated but it basically suggests that whatever rules there need to be in an rpg can be minimal and/or GM-facing, so that the players are just acting diegetically as much as possible without the abstraction of mechanics.

Here's Ben Milton talking about it on reddit
plus another influential blog post

Free Kriegsspiel: Worlds, Not Rules, Etc.

What's Free Kriegsspiel? That's a silly name. Okay, free kriegsspiel (FK) is shorthand for "ancient school" RPG theory. That is, how were r...

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As far as games, I would look into games like 2400 or Messerspiel or just do what I did and search for FKR on itch and see what comes up!

 

[Gus L]

So "His Majesty the Worm" just came out, and I haven't read it yet, but Playful Void dropped this hope review and she thinks it's pretty cool.

I Read His Majesty the Worm

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

playfulvoid.game.blog

I think it sounds interesting and will put some of my absurd amounts of DTRPG credit towards the PDF, and the only other thing I've bothered with lately has been Explorer's Design's Classic Template (also cool - and not a game). I should say I know and like the author of His Majesty, to the point where I chat with him a few times a month, but I know and like a lot of RPG authors to that degree and I don't necessarily buy their stuff (shh. don't tell them.)

 

[Mannahnin]

So "His Majesty the Worm" just came out, and I haven't read it yet, but Playful Void dropped this hope review and she thinks it's pretty cool.

I Read His Majesty the Worm

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

playfulvoid.game.blog

I think it sounds interesting and will put some of my absurd amounts of DTRPG credit towards the PDF, and the only other thing I've bothered with lately has been Explorer's Design's Classic Template (also cool - and not a game). I should say I know and like the author of His Majesty, to the point where I chat with him a few times a month, but I know and like a lot of RPG authors to that degree and I don't necessarily buy their stuff (shh. don't tell them.)

I got an Exalted Funeral notification in my email about it. It looked pretty enough and I remembered it sounding cool enough from Josh's appearance on Ben Laurence's megadungeon podcast that I sprang for the book and the PDF.

I probably have too many games as it is, but my interest was piqued.

 

[Malmuria]

So "His Majesty the Worm" just came out, and I haven't read it yet, but Playful Void dropped this hope review and she thinks it's pretty cool.

I Read His Majesty the Worm

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

playfulvoid.game.blog

I think it sounds interesting and will put some of my absurd amounts of DTRPG credit towards the PDF, and the only other thing I've bothered with lately has been Explorer's Design's Classic Template (also cool - and not a game). I should say I know and like the author of His Majesty, to the point where I chat with him a few times a month, but I know and like a lot of RPG authors to that degree and I don't necessarily buy their stuff (shh. don't tell them.)

The set of references in the review are really interesting: Blades in the Dark, 13th Age, and Pathfinder Remastered (in terms of amount of complexity). Part of the review makes it sound like something Trophy-adjacent. But with more 'real' dungeon maps? Sounds interesting, but also sounds like a lot