Katabasis is largely the product of shamelessly pilfering the best ideas of the OSR Blogosphere and smashing them together until they fit. It would not exist without the many talented and creative people sharing their ideas with the world.

 

My eternal gratitude especially goes to:

  • Arnold Kemp, for birthing the GLOG, introducing me to the OSR blog scene, and writing hundreds of innovative, gamable ideas that lodged themselves in my brain and forever changed how I thought about Fantasy Gaming
  • Skerples, for compiling the grandfather of all GLOG hacks, on which Katabasis is largely modeled
  • Logan Knight, for the core of the Flesh/Grit system and and the uniquely grotesque horror aesthetic of his Cörpathium setting
  • Emmy Allen, for first applying Flesh/Grit to NPCs in her prehistoric fantasy masterpiece, Wolf-packs and Winter Snow
  • Anne Hunter, for her clarifying 8 Abilities framework and her writing on resource management in RPGs
  • Ben Milton, for Knave’s illuminating design notes
  • Adrian Hammer, for his work on abstract inventories in Knave and his Maienstein races
  • Brendan Strejcek, for the unified Hazard Roll system
  • Ava Islam, for the procedural approach to Downtime in her game, Errant
  • Phillip McGregor, for the obsessively detailed Orbis Mundi 2, the foundation upon which Katabasis' economy was built

And to everyone I stole class and spell ideas from, including Arnold, G.R. Michael, Lexi, Luke Thompson, Oblidisideryptch, Red Kangaroo, Salty Goo, Skerples, Type 1 Ninja, Valzi, Vayra, and Yami Bakura.