Review & Commentary The OSRIC Player's Guide, By Stuart Marshall From Seattle Hill Games For The OSRIC Rpg

"The OSRIC Player's Guide, by Seattle Hill Games, has most of the core rules to play the advanced first edition of the world's most popular role-playing game. It is an easy introduction on how to play the game as Gary played it. Once you have mastered the rules herein, you should be able to easily assimilate the full rules from the golden age of fantasy adventure gaming."

The OSRIC Player's Guide, By Stuart Marshall From Seattle Hill Games is on Amazon. And The OSRIC Player's Guide was brand new to me & clocks in at about two hundred and twenty pages. And the OSRIC Player's Guide has everything that an OSRIC player is going to need straight out of the gate to get thier PC up and running. You've got classic races, classes, equipment, and more to get your OSRIC adventurer off the ground. Ths book goes through the entire process of PC creation for OSRIC from the ground up. From rolling dice to getting equipment it's all here according to the original style of the world's most popular fantasy role playing game especially the first edition. The difference here from the regular OSRIC rule book is that this is done from the player's side of things. 

For someone who wants to run OSRIC the  OSRIC Player's Guide, is going to make things much easier. Because this book plugs into the player's needs and wants from OSRIC. And it does this by laying out all of the rules like stereo instructions. The OSRIC Player's Guide is highly linear and this is a good thing because it enables the DM to guide his or her players through the PC generation process. 
The OSRIC Player's Guide is incredibly useful because it has a secondary use at the table top as a reference while play is going on. This player's guide is not a replacement for the OSRIC rule book instead this is book is a companion. And one that feeds into the OSRIC system by being useful along side of the main OSRIC rule book. 
And is it good?! From what I've read from owning it over the past week or so yes very much so. The OSRIC Player's Guide is a well thought out book that takes the OSRIC system and enables the player to dive into the deeep end of the system easily, reliably, and with little fuss. 

Review and Commentary On The OSR Resource - OSRIC Player's Guide By Steve Robertson & Stuart Marshall For Your Old School Campaigns

Stuart Marshall released the OSRIC Player's Guide   and it clocks in at around one hundred eighty pages of OSR goodness but what exactly is this book? Its a condensed down and boiled down essence of the OSRIC rule book. You can check out a free version of this book right over HERE
Personally after reading through this book I'd go for the print copy. My eyes were ready to bleed out because this book features wall to wall original artwork.

So what's in the book? Well, according to the Lulu blurb;
"OSRIC Player's Guide (Perfect Bound Softcover) At approx. 180 pages, this slim volume has all of the information that OSRIC players need and none of the stuff they don't. It essentially contains the first 3 chapters of OSRIC, minus some of the GM content from chapter 3. It features over 70 all new illustrations created specifically for this book, relatively large print to make for easy reading, incorporates the latest errata (as of November 2012), a reorganized spells section, a spell index, and a general"
Yeah, this description doesn't really do the book any real justice, this is a slimmed down over all edited and in many respects improved version of OSRIC with the player in mind. Skipping through the book and reading it will make you want to actually run the game. So basically everything is run much tighter and leaner, the book is very well done. The print is clear and concise. The layout is very well done. There are nods here and there throughout the book to its original source material.


Everything here is very well done, the quality of the work is very nice and its actually useful to both the player and the dungeon master. All of the mechanisms for each race, attribute, and class are all grouped as they should making this a very easy book to use at the table and something well done for taking with you to a game. This sort of a natural progression puts this game reference right around the mark where it needs to be.This is the sort of high quality product that I've come to expect out of the OSR.

One of the big selling points is the clear and concise indexing of the book's contents in easy to understand indexes with large print with everything laid out for referencing and quick access at the DM's finger tips. The spells are laid out according to level, PC class and readily handy.



Bottomline do I think that this book is worth the price tag? Yes in spades in point of fact. Stuart Marshall does an excellent job with his book and its a welcome addition to the OSRIC family. Because its a Black Friday sale on Lulu,Code TURKEY30 gets 30% off print orders at Lulu thru Thanksgiving, 11/26.