Running & Writing OSR Adventures

About this episode

Joel Hines and Joseph R. Lewis discuss writing and running OSR adventures at Gary Con '26.

Joel Hines (Silverarm Press) and "the greatest adventure writer of all time”, Joseph R. Lewis, (Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow) join Luke at Gary Con '26 to talk about not just writing a good OSR adventure, but how to run one as well.

People in this episode

Host: Luke

Guests: Joel Hines, Joseph R. Lewis

Topics covered

• OSR adventure writing
• game running
• tabletop games
• Gary Con
• adventure design

Keywords

• OSR
• adventure writing
• tabletop RPG
• Gary Con
• game design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Silverarm Press

Books & works: Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow

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