New changes are afoot for OSRIC!

[Jahydin]

Why should anyone respond to such witty comments as “Oh, and keep Ascending AC the f*!% away from OSRIC; you're either playing 1E or you're not Goddammit.” despite the respondents of the poll making that the third most popular change for the game?

Certainly got a chuckle out of me at first for being so over the top, but then made me kind of sad there's people this angry over what other create.

If you're that passionate about something, time to get to work yourself and not rely on others.

 

[GreyLord]

Certainly got a chuckle out of me at first for being so over the top, but then made me kind of sad there's people this angry over what other create.

If you're that passionate about something, time to get to work yourself and not rely on others.

Why do you think there are clones in the first place?

Of course, if we went with your idea (and in some ways it's not a bad idea) then there would never be a 3e, much less a 5e D&D. If people would only make things instead of taking someone else's creation and changing it to their own preferences (sometimes by destroying or burying that which they are changing it from in an attempt to make it so that their version is the only one available) we probably would have a lot more RPGs that were popular than just certain versions of D&D and the distant other RPGs that trail in it's wake.

In some ways OSR was a response to 3e (that's about when it started, during the 3.x period) and people wishing that instead of buying an IP and changing the game, they had kept the old style of TSR D&D alive (which, ironically, with the idea above, would have stopped with 1e because 2e also was built by others rather than the ones who originally created AD&D, much less D&D).

 

[Jahydin]

Of course, if we went with your idea (and in some ways it's not a bad idea) then there would never be a 3e, much less a 5e D&D. If people would only make things instead of taking someone else's creation and changing it to their own preferences (sometimes by destroying or burying that which they are changing it from in an attempt to make it so that their version is the only one available) we probably would have a lot more RPGs that were popular than just certain versions of D&D and the distant other RPGs that trail in it's wake.

That's not what I'm talking about though. If someone is that passionate over how a game should be written, then they should write it themselves or find another game that's closer to their vision; not scream at other people how to do it for them. If that means making a 1:1 mechanical copy of AD&D arranged to their liking, then awesome.

Note, this doesn't mean it needs to be published. I hope everyone has a cache of proudly written houserules stored somewhere safe.

That said though, OSRIC very much has a mission to be a reference and a lot of people have rallied around it over the years. Although he doesn't have to, I think it would be wise for Mat to take a page from Gavin (OSE) and just create a new game if he wants to experiment.