Customizing my Macdonalds Iniative Order: Making a Crunchy Combat System Taste Good.
In advance I would like to apologize for that title. This blog is about my proposed combat system I have made for my OSE home game, and the reasoning behind it. It is unfortunately not about ordering at McDonalds. Over the last few months I have been running a OSE game with my long time party of players who I have played with for nearly a decade now. We all enjoy rules tinkering and making little systems for ourselves or attaching new systems in place of ones we don't like. Customizing the details has become a popular end of session discussion before breaking up for the evening. One of the current main focuses for our homebrew has been the combat rules. We generally all like quick snappy combat, but combat that boils down to rolling dice at each other until one side retreats has never been particularly fun. OSR games do center more around the actions leading up to the first initiative than the combat procedure itself. We wanted to add more interesting options while keeping the game...
