Old-School Rules games that are supported?

[Distant Scholar]

I've been looking at old-school rules games (and simpler fantasy RPGs in general), and it's unclear to me which ones are currently supported by publishers.

I'm pretty sure Swords & Wizardry is well-supported. What about OSRIC? Labyrinth Lord? Others?

[Legendarius]

Does the reissue of the classic D&D and AD&D adventures and materials on dndclassics count as support for OSR games? :-)

I think Frog God Games is supporting S&W quite well.

[P.H. Dungeon]

Dungeon Crawl Classics and Castles and Crusades are both old school and fairly well supported by their respective publishers.

You can still get pdfs of all the older editions of D&D and various adventures and supplements to go with them, so in that respect they are well supported.

[Charlie D.]

Lamentations of the Flame Princess is well supported. Has great adventures and great sandbox settings.

[Kthulhu]

Yeah, after S&W, LotFP is probably getting the most support targeted directly at it. One thing about the OSR, however, us that most of the games are fairly close system-wise...most adventures for one will pretty easily translate to most of the others.

[Grimmy]

Yeah they're all interchangeable!

Edit: Mostly, sort of.

[Hitdice]

BFRPG has a ton of support, just on their own website. But yeah (backing up Kthulhu here) if you can find one OSR system that's supported, it'll transfer to any other OSR system pretty seamlessly.

Edit: Grimmy is a ninja!!

[Kthulhu]

I will add a caveat...some of the retro-clones attempt to "modernize" some of the mechanics. In generally, the more a retro-clone modernizes itself, the less compatible it will be with others.

The most faithful ones, however, you can mix and match their parts like Mr. Potatohead.

[Steve Geddes]

I dont think it really matters even if you use modern adventures. The conversion work required is dependant on the destination system.

Any of the simple systems can accomodate adventures from the more modern systems pretty easily, in my view - often you can just drop in subsystems with minimal adjustment (I'm running kingmaker using S&W at the moment, for example and the kingdom rules are pretty much copied as is with a quick table of 'ability bonuses wrt kingdom rolls'). Alternately you can just omit complicated bits.

[Distant Scholar]

Thanks, everyone, for your replies. It seems I have more options than I thought...

[Sai Ling]

Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperboria is supported, and it has a few more options than the others I've played with (BFRP, LL, S&W). More AD&D1e than D&D.

Or there's always the old D&D BECMI Rules Cyclopedia, which isn't supported at all, except by all the other games mentioned and every supplement for all of them. In general, where OSR games don't port directly from the original, it's simple enough to reset.

[Tharen the Damned]

Sai Ling wrote:

Or there's always the old D&D BECMI Rules Cyclopedia, which isn't supported at all, except by all the other games mentioned and every supplement for all of them. In general, where OSR games don't port directly from the original, it's simple enough to reset.

There is a BECMI retroclone called Dark Dungeons.

[Hitdice]

Sai Ling wrote:

Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperboria is supported, and it has a few more options than the others I've played with (BFRP, LL, S&W). More AD&D1e than D&D.

Or there's always the old D&D BECMI Rules Cyclopedia, which isn't supported at all, except by all the other games mentioned and every supplement for all of them. In general, where OSR games don't port directly from the original, it's simple enough to reset.

That's it exactly; the most complicated thing you'll have to do is figure out the difference between ascending and descending AC.

[Kthulhu]

Lamentations of the Flame Princess actually has a section on converting between the most popular retro-clones, including a table of equivalent AC values.

[Legendarius]

Tharen the Damned wrote:

Sai Ling wrote:

Or there's always the old D&D BECMI Rules Cyclopedia, which isn't supported at all, except by all the other games mentioned and every supplement for all of them. In general, where OSR games don't port directly from the original, it's simple enough to reset.

There is a BECMI retroclone called Dark Dungeons.

And the PDF for Dark Dungeons is free (at least a no-art version). The PDF of the original TSR Rules Cyclopedia is available now on dndclassics.com for I believe $10 give or take.