Today’s #RPGaDAY2023 prompt is: “Most Recent Game Bought”

This one’s a little tricky because I actually bought three games during the same transaction earlier this week. That said, “Blood of Pangea” was the primary point of interest – the next in the sequence of reading – and so it seems appropriate to award it the status of most recent purchase.

The reason for buying this game and breaking my recently applied rule about not buying new games was simple: I wanted to explore the collection of “Olde House Rules” games as part of my investigation into the FKR approach to roleplaying games.

I arrived at Olde House Rules following a sequence of events that began with my recent game of DFRPG, led me to have an excellent conversation with FKR game designer Paul Jennings, and ended up leading me to join the FKR Collective Discord. While interacting there, someone posted a blog link to the article, “Minimalist Gaming Doesn’t Exist“.

Following reading that highly interesting article, I remembered that I owned “Pits and Perils” – had bought it back around 2015 – but had largely discounted it as “rules lite” and not my jam. Realising I am entering into a period of profound change in my hobby, I decided to re-read both it and “Diceless Dungeons“. Having done that, I noticed Blood of Pangea and two other titles – “BoP Retrospace” and “Gaming Primitive” – published later.

The main reason to investigate Blood of Pangea has been to find out how things have evolved since Pits and Perils. The authors were, back in 2015, stalwarts of the OSR and now appear to be standard bearers for the FKR. I wanted to know what has changed and how the games have evolved. It’s an interesting line of enquiry. Just today, I discovered they have released yet another new game – “Mydwandyr” – as of the 1st of August.

It’s funny how one thing leads to another, eh?

Game on!