{"id":1760,"date":"2023-01-30T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:02:32","slug":"the-randomnomicon-and-making-random-osr-rulesets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/the-randomnomicon-and-making-random-osr-rulesets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Randomnomicon and making random OSR rulesets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to a post by Jens D https:\/\/the-disoriented-ranger.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/lots-of-ducks-no-row-and-gallery-of.html I noticed mention of a game being designed called the above, which sounds like fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month Marcia at Traverse Fantasy did some cluster analysis of OSR type rulesets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People asked about where others fit in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idle thought is that with CC and other open licensed games &#8211; those that are adjacent you could slice up into the relevant sections &#8211; and randomly roll for each.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A function could even feed the classification into Marcia&#8217;s breakdown of rulesets as above to get &#8216;synthetic&#8217; data for said clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traversefantasy.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/osr-rules-families-faq-methodology.html\">https:\/\/traversefantasy.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/osr-rules-families-faq-methodology.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a post by Jens D https:\/\/the-disoriented-ranger.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/lots-of-ducks-no-row-and-gallery-of.html I noticed mention of a game being designed called the above, which sounds like fun. Last month Marcia at Traverse Fantasy did some cluster analysis of OSR type rulesets. People asked about where others fit in. Idle thought is that with CC and other open licensed games &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/the-randomnomicon-and-making-random-osr-rulesets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Randomnomicon and making random OSR rulesets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[217,17,3],"tags":[378,26,490,489],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-so","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1503,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/osr-rules-famlies\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":0},"title":"OSR Rules Families","author":"richard","date":"December 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Where Marcia has done some cluster analysis of 38? different DnD\/OSR and adjacent rulesets https:\/\/traversefantasy.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/osr-rules-families.html?sc=1672107121255#c653162380926675610","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Data Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Data Science","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/data-science\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1060,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/osr-twitter-wordcloud-in-r\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":1},"title":"OSR Twitter WordCloud in #R","author":"richard","date":"February 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Data Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Data Science","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/data-science\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OSRWordCloud.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OSRWordCloud.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OSRWordCloud.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OSRWordCloud.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/mokuy-evolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":2},"title":"Mokuy Evolution","author":"richard","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The idea started after I saw the statues below. 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Could have lots of things apart from bushrangers: pulp vigilantes, monsters, exploration, super science cities, time travel.... https:\/\/elizabethkrallphotos.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/30\/random-fridays-mokuy\/ Images from the above Mokuy statue","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/fantasy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/26\/a-historical-look-at-the-osr\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":3},"title":"A Historical Look at the OSR","author":"richard","date":"December 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A five part series so far: Thanks to: Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design https:\/\/osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-i.html https:\/\/osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-ii.html https:\/\/osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-iii.html https:\/\/osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-iv.html https:\/\/osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-v.html This is an excellent overview that many a scholar could jump off from as desired, so thanks","rel":"","context":"In &quot;RPG&quot;","block_context":{"text":"RPG","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/rpg\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1969,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/megadungeon-area-name-generator\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":4},"title":"Megadungeon area name generator","author":"richard","date":"January 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/beyondtheblackgate.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/megadungeon-random-area-name-generator.html","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/fantasy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1903,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/the-frog-supertable\/","url_meta":{"origin":1760,"position":5},"title":"The Frog Supertable","author":"richard","date":"February 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Frog Supertable https:\/\/catshavenolord.itch.io\/the-frog-supertable I think I might borrow flying vampire frogs.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/fantasy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}