Agents of the O.D.D.

Hi just curious how the game is coming along? Are you going to do a kickstarter or ? Will a physical copy be available at some point? Can this game do a BPRD Hellboy style game?

We played this game as a one-shot on Tabletop Clown Society! Going back over the rules in retrospect, we admittedly definitely fucked them up a bit since we had never played before, but we still had an absolute blast. If anyone wants to give it a listen, here's a link to the episode (or you can find it on Apple or Spotify or wherever else)

https://shows.acast.com/tabletop-clown-society/episodes/64f7dbe29a04ce00119f105b

Can you add an EPUB version of the rules?

Played it in at a local demo adapting Trilemma's Sirens of Sea And Blood for a modern-day scenario. Players had to rescue the sons of ODD Europe's director, who had disappeared during his Balearic vacation. Team was composed by a Cat Burglar, a  Very Private Investigator, an Harbinger of End Days and a Reptilian, and quite liked it. Definitely want to try the game again!

I got it from the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality and picked it up just now, because I wanted to hack Into The Odd, and figured why not give it a read. Damn it's good. I had plans on making a paranatural investigation game before, but there is no need for that now, this is much more flavourful than what I had in mind. Thanks for making it :)

Is there physical copies somewhere? :D

I've run the game twice for my group and they've enjoyed it. We lost the first character on the second mission (one of the two with experience from the previous mission) and it was emotional. The missions were converted short cthulhoid adventures and I'm a fan of Delta Green, so the horror element was definitely there (more Call of Cthulhu than Pandemonium). The random backgrounds were great and loved by all!

The one thing that was missing was grappling rules (!). I know those are a problem on most F20 games and Into the ODD has like two different unofficial ones. I wrote something up after the session and will test them next time.

Played our first session last night, and got 1/3 murdered in the process. Poor Patrick the Squamous Sailor, the catfish alligator did not want to chat. My Chiroptrean Kid — Kid Bat — barely made it out of the Ozark woods alive, but we need to go back and find out what's going on at the Murder Hut ... wish us luck for next week.

One question. When you take STR damage and must then save to avoid critical damage, do you use the new reduced STR to make the save?

I just finished reading this little booklet, and it's awesome. It's full of gameable content in little space. it follows a modern trend in RPG design of avoiding meaningless die rolls, and I like that. It has a clear root in old school Dungeons & Dragons and Into the Odd (wich I have not read, but I woould like to, based on what I saw here). 

I have maaany RPG books, and I will definitely try this with a group.

Agents Of The Odd is a modern conspiracy-supernatural osr adventure game.

It's 46 pages, with an easily readable but very text-heavy layout, and it runs off of the excellent OSR-pared-down-to-its-bones engine of Into The Odd.

It's written in-character, as a training manual from a dystopian government, so it takes a little more work to decipher than Into The Odd's rules, but it's still pretty clear and well-explained.

The mechanics are pretty straight up Into The Odd, with a few small tweaks to better contour the game to a more mission-based format. If you haven't played ITO, think original D&D---but you can have a new player up to speed and playing in five minutes without losing any of what makes the game mechanically fun.

From a GMing perspective, Agents is solid, and gives good advice in general for running games in its supernatural investigation genre. It also comes with an (admittedly extremely straightforward) sample adventure, which digs into a cool bit of folklore.

Overall, if you like Delta Green, Trail Of Cthulhu, F.I.S.T., or other games of modern conspiracy-horror---and if you'd like to try an extremely-quick-to-pick-up version of the above---grab Agents Of The Odd. It's well-made, fun, and has quite a bit of its own flavor to set itself apart from other games in the genre.

Got this as part of the big charity bundle, and just tried running it for the first time tonight.  Really impressive game, we had a ton of fun! Pretty much exactly what I want from an OSR-style game, random charts leading to some cool emergent gameplay, clever player plans leading us down unexpected paths,  that sort of thing. We played Operation: Treefall, next time out I'm looking at something inspired by T1 in a modern setting, see how that goes. Thanks for the cool game!

What's the recommended playercount/can it be run singleplayer?

I picked it up a couple weeks ago and it looks like such fun! I printed it up as part of my prep and decided to use it to practice bookbinding (pics here). Thanks so much for all your hard work!

Wait my brother loved this, can we get more??

love your game dude, also it would be nice if it has some sort of character sheet for agents of odd, like men in black them-I MEAN umm...P-PA-PARANORMAL THEME yes yes i-would like paranormal theme character sheet...

Howdy, just from reading the pdf im really excited to run the game but im a bit confused about how combat works, do you just roll the weapon die and then take the damage after you deduct the armour bonus or is it like 5e where you can hit or miss?

I literally started running a game with this premise two months ago, using Mutants and Masterminds, but it's an idea I've had for years - Agents of W.E.I.R.D. ... And now I stumble across this - should make a great resource!

Hello! I've ran two sessions of O.D.D. and it's been great fun. I really enjoy the profiles and my players seem very enthusiastic about their characters.

However, I have a couple of questions. At the risk of sounding dumb, I don't quite get how save rolls work - how do they tie in with each character's ability scores? I've been saying that a success is rolling under or equal to their score since you say 1 always succeeds. Unfortunately a player has said this is a bit confusing as a lower number is better when it comes to saves but a higher number is better when it comes to damage. Also, can saves have different difficulties, like in D&D, or do they depend only on the roll/stats, like in Dungeon World?

I have a bit of trouble keeping up with all the rules as there are many situations predicted in the pdf but hopefully my players don't mind if I simplify things a bit. 

I greatly enjoy that it's an RP focused game as opposed to constant combat, and I love listening to the PCs discuss what's happening. I also appreciate that it's easy to improvise because creature creation is simple and quick.

Sorry for sending such a long message, and I hope it's clear enough! English isn't my first language. Thank you so much!

Excellent game. 
I'm confused by one thing: requisition rules for acranum. I think I might be just reading it wrong though.

On 28 I think it says a specific arcanum costs 2 requisitions and a random arcanum costs 1 but on pg 31 I think it says that a random arcanum or ritual costs 2 and a specific costs 3.

Am I reading it wrong? How much should arcanum cost? I'm going to be running this soon and while it's not a huge deal, I'd like to make sure I know what the intention is.

Otherwise, amazing game. Love the backgrounds, want to make some more myself once our campaign gets going.

good Stuff.... The O.D.D

OCCULT DEFENSE DIVISION.

Solving unconventional problems,with unconventional means.

Love it!

The idea of using Into the Odd style Arcana to solve paranormal cases is just brilliant! It makes me want to play and run this game right now!

Not to mention the d100 backgrounds that open a whole window of opportunity for homebrewing Troika like "classes!"

I am sold!