2020 Happy Fifth Birthday - The Ruins of Murkhill Forum

[Admin Pete]

Today January 11th The Ruins of Murkhill - OD&D and Other Classic Old School RPGs completes our Fifth Year. Tomorrow January 12th, 2020 we celebrate the beginning of our Sixth Year. Happy Birthday to all of you who help make this forum the true home of old school table top fantasy adventure role playing games. Fantasy to our way of thinking does includes far future space travel games, alternate reality games, post-apocalyptic games and much, much, much more.

Game styles that I have seen mentioned and that we support include

Old School - this has been diluted through misuse to be rendered meaningless, but if you know what it originally meant we support it.
Now to be more precise we support these more specific styles

Weselyian School Gaming as in David Wesely as in Braunstein (not as in Wesleyan, which is unrelated to rpgs)

Arnesonian School Gaming as in Dave Arneson as in Blackmoor(The First Fantasy Campaign), as in Adventures in Fantasy and 

which is also known as Ancient School Gaming, Primordial School Gaming, Pre-School Gaming and others

Gygaxian School Gaming - as in Gary Gygax as in Greyhawk play test era and OD&D

Later Gygaxian School Gaming - as in Gary Gygax as in AD&D and later

Kuntzian School Gaming as in Rob Kuntz as in OD&D as in Kalibruhn

Wardian School Gaming as in Metamorphosis Alpha as in Gamma World

Millerian School Gaming as in Classic Traveller

St. Andreian School Gaming as in Tunnels & Trolls

Hargravian School Gaming as in Dave Hargrave as in Arduin (See also Arnesonian School Gaming)

Bledsawian School Gaming as in Bob Bledsaw as in The Wilderlands of High Fantasy

So if the way that you like to game fits into any of these or somewhere close we have you covered.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Thank you for putting this up El Borak/Admin Pete. Happy Birthday to my fellow forum members and to all the staff.

[El Borak]

Jan 12, 2020 1:33:40 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

Thank you for putting this up El Borak /Admin Pete . Happy Birthday to my fellow forum members and to all the staff.

Thank you for all your work in creating this place.

[hengest]

Jan 11, 2020 22:06:23 GMT -5 Admin Pete said:

Old School - this has been diluted through misuse to be rendered meaningless, but if you know what it originally meant we support it.
Now to be more precise we support these more specific styles

Weselyian School Gaming as in David Wesely as in Braunstein (not as in Wesleyan, which is unrelated to rpgs)

Arnesonian School Gaming as in Dave Arneson as in Blackmoor(The First Fantasy Campaign), as in Adventures in Fantasy and 

which is also known as Ancient School Gaming, Primordial School Gaming, Pre-School Gaming and others

Gygaxian School Gaming - as in Gary Gygax as in Greyhawk play test era and OD&D

Later Gygaxian School Gaming - as in Gary Gygax as in AD&D and later

Kuntzian School Gaming as in Rob Kuntz as in OD&D as in Kalibruhn

Wardian School Gaming as in Metamorphosis Alpha as in Gamma World

Millerian School Gaming as in Classic Traveller

St. Andreian School Gaming as in Tunnels & Trolls

Hargravian School Gaming as in Dave Hargrave as in Arduin (See also Arnesonian School Gaming)

Bledsawian School Gaming as in Bob Bledsaw as in The Wilderlands of High Fantasy

So if the way that you like to game fits into any of these or somewhere close we have you covered.

I love this list even though I have no idea what many of the styles are.  

I am most interested in Arnesonian-style, as I am influenced by robkuntz 's statements that Arenson's innovation was the "endlessness"of the game system itself.  I am getting more and more attracted to a playstyle that I think of as imperially modular: willing to add formerly foreign or unknown parts to the world / ruleset / possibility set at any time.  

I am also interested in learning about Traveller / T&T / Bledsaw for exactly that reason: to see where people have been (at least in published works, who knows where all people have been...guess I should mine this forum first.