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It might just be semantics, but my recollection was that there wasn't really a movement until the retroclones. Sure, AD&D still had its...

Well, that's fair. The whole reason the retroclones came into being requires some context, after all; people who weren't happy with 3e...

Same. That said, the letters in the OSR shouldn't be taken too literally. It's not just a revival of anything old school; it's a...

It's a couple years old now (or more) but this is the best exegesis I've ever seen on what the OSR is...

I don't know why I'm very ornery about an overly expansive and incoherent usage of the word OSR, because I don't even identify with the...

I despise the new(ish) business model of subscriptions for software, and refuse to pay any of them. For most, there's an open freeware...

Curiously, just in the last few weeks I've read a number of short story collections: Horror in the Museum (the collection by Del Rey...

As soon as a see a rule that I don't like, or the lack of a rule that I think I need. Eventus stultorum magister est. I know what I want...

I definitely have started tinkering with houserules before games have even been released after reading previews. But that's the beauty...

Played a few sessions of D&D off and on, but almost immediately checked out Gamma World, Top Secret and Star Frontiers too. Took me a...

Shortish; hardly rolled any dice.

Are you suggesting that I can't engage with the premise of the OP in good faith, trusting that his experience is, in fact, his...

No. I didn't. I can see why you would have thought that, but when I said, no that's not what I meant, why would you double down and tell...

If that's not your view on backwards compatibility, then every version of D&D (and most other fantasy RPGs too) is compatible with every...

I didn't say that you said that. I do say, however, that that's my 3e, 4e and 5e experience.