Post #2147007
2026-05-01 10:28 UTC
My first OSR campaign became defined by spreadsheets, logistics, and corporate org charts.
One of my players at one point said 'I am joint-owner of a 250,000 GP criminal empire... I'm not going into a fucking dungeon. Tony Soprano doesn't rob off-licenses; he has goons who pay him a cut'
I really do feel that, in any D&D campaign, there is a point where the mechanics cease to be relevant and it becomes about the physical logistics of managing a fictional enterprise.
Replies (4)
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@AndreasDavour@dice.camp 2026-05-01 10:32
@Taskerland That's my experience of Traveller.
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@john@vyrse.social 2026-05-01 10:44
@Taskerland trueness
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@RogerBW@discordian.social 2026-05-01 10:46
@Taskerland I've known a couple of groups have this when playing Eternal Lies (Trail of Cthulhu). We have basically bottomless expenses, why don't we just hire local investigators in these various spots round the world rather than travelling to places where we don't know the language, the society, etc.?
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@fdouglaswall@dice.camp 2026-05-01 18:06
@Taskerland This is actually my dream campaign. The last time I ran an #OSR campaign, I did things like track downtime from training, but I wish that I had had the tools and the awareness to break out the spreadsheets. Next time...