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Heard of Orcus RPG?

Orcus RPG is a Free & Open Source (CC-BY 4.0) 4th Edition retro-clone.

Basically it means this is a very balanced, crunchy & tactically inclined TTRPG

Check it out:
https://sanglorian.github.io/orcus/

#Creativecommons #OldschoolRPG #TTRPG #4thEdition #Free

In case you missed it earlier,

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html

And I will have copies with me to upcoming events #openbsd #freebsd #bsd #pf #packetfilter #bookofpf #4thedition #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon @nostarch

In case you missed it earlier,

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html

And I will have copies with me to upcoming events #openbsd #freebsd #bsd #pf #packetfilter #bookofpf #4thedition #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon @nostarch

CaptainCon 2026: Masters of Malifaux

CaptainCon 2026 brings people the country over to Rhode Island to play Malifaux. And some other games you may have heard of.

https://chasingdings.com/2026/02/01/captaincon-2026-masters-of-malifaux/

#Malifaux #TabletopGames #4thEdition #captaincon #colette #rasputina

CaptainCon 2026: Masters of Malifaux

CaptainCon 2026 brings people the country over to Rhode Island to play Malifaux. And some other games you may have heard of.

https://chasingdings.com/2026/02/01/captaincon-2026-masters-of-malifaux/

#Malifaux #TabletopGames #4thEdition #captaincon #colette #rasputina

The latest Valuable News by @vermaden https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/valuable-news-2025-12-08/ notes that The Book of PF, 4th edition is coming soon (also https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html, https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html) @nostarch #freebsd #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #bookofpf #4thedition

The latest Valuable News by @vermaden https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/valuable-news-2025-12-08/ notes that The Book of PF, 4th edition is coming soon (also https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html, https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html) @nostarch #freebsd #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #bookofpf #4thedition

The Kind of Malifaux You Play at Home

With 4th Edition leaving beta, players are waiting for the official release. Meanwhile, some of us still want to play a game...

https://chasingdings.com/2025/08/22/the-kind-of-malifaux-you-play-at-home/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2025 #Malifaux #TabletopGames #4thEdition #december #performer #tormented

Malifaux 4e: December vs Experimental

For just my second 4th edition game, my brave Rasputina (Abominable) faced the evil Dr. McMourning (Insanitary). We were at a fight and a hockey game broke out.

https://chasingdings.com/2025/05/25/malifaux-4e-december-vs-experimental/

#Malifaux #TabletopGames #4thEdition #PackRatGaming

Malifaux 4th Edition: Mei Feng vs Captain Zipp

Foundry and Infamous meet once again... and the result is pretty much same as last time.

https://chasingdings.com/2025/04/30/malifaux-4th-edition-mei-feng-vs-captain-zipp/

#Malifaux #TabletopGames #4thEdition #foundry #MeiFeng #TheBattleStandard

One of the things I find interesting about the differences in major editions is that their biggest difference is how they silently change the social contract, and yet players adapt to them.

Like, if you take the mindset from one edition and carry it to the next you'll end up with frustration.

However, much like wide straight roads, the rules implicitly create a different way of playing the game.

Before #4thEdition, and this is even stronger in #5thEdition, you wouldn't inherently think to reskin something. What was in the rulebook was what the thing was.

However, you in 5th edition you can make a #DrunkenMaster by reskinning some #barbarian levels into your character.

Likewise, #2ndEdition and earlier we much more focused on rulings over explicit rules.

Nowhere in the books does it say that wild GM adjudication was how you played earlier editions, but it was almost mandatory for the game to work.

Likewise, reskinning isn't explicitly suggested in later editions, but it was somehow divined by a significant number of players as the way to customize characters.

One of the things I find interesting about the differences in major editions is that their biggest difference is how they silently change the social contract, and yet players adapt to them.

Like, if you take the mindset from one edition and carry it to the next you'll end up with frustration.

However, much like wide straight roads, the rules implicitly create a different way of playing the game.

Before #4thEdition, and this is even stronger in #5thEdition, you wouldn't inherently think to reskin something. What was in the rulebook was what the thing was.

However, you in 5th edition you can make a #DrunkenMaster by reskinning some #barbarian levels into your character.

Likewise, #2ndEdition and earlier we much more focused on rulings over explicit rules.

Nowhere in the books does it say that wild GM adjudication was how you played earlier editions, but it was almost mandatory for the game to work.

Likewise, reskinning isn't explicitly suggested in later editions, but it was somehow divined by a significant number of players as the way to customize characters.

[WIP] Working on some new units for AoS this weekend in preparation for 4th edition.

#warhammer #ageofisgmar #4thedition #skaven #miniatures #3dprinting

@ILikeBooks Hasbro Wizards released a more restrictive license for #4thEdition called the GSL that basically nobody used, mainly because #4E was bad, that caused the aforementioned mutiny on the part of third party developers like #Paizo. Hasbro also screwed Paizo but moving Dungeon Magazine and Dragon Magazine in house.

@ILikeBooks The #OGL was a permanent permission to take the rules of #DnD 3rd edition and make your own stuff for with a few caveats like how you couldn't use "product identity" things such as Beholders or Drizzt Do Urden. Then #4thEdition game out and it sucked. #Paizo and others used the OGL to remake older editions in the form of #Pathfinder for 3rd edition and the #OSR for older editions than that. Wizards, now owned by #Hasbro tried to put the genie back in the bottle then too