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Some reflections and thoughts on Black Blade Publishing, after 16 years: Black Blade Publishing and the OSR Community Allan.

The big news is that for this issue White Dwarf expands to add an extra four pages, although there is a price increase to a whopping 75p...

So giant mega dungeons need a large amount of variety and factions. While ancient may tower of the mad elder god wizards is certainly a...

I mean BFRPG is fine as far as I know. It's a BECMI or B/X clone from the first wave of OSR retro-clones like Labyrinth Lord, Swords &...

Well, finding these reprinted snippets by Gary Gygax from A&E has been extremely fun to read through. I think it also sheds a good bit...

My own impression is that as the OSR recedes into memory (or ages into senility - whichever descriptor one prefers) it becomes harder to...

I'll disagree with you slightly there. Retroclones were born from the OSR, but it didn't come into being for them. It was originally...

I agree. Which is one reason that I'd prefer not to try to exclude or gatekeep other old school games from the OSR, though that...

Is he? He's grumpy as hell, for sure, but I haven't seen him try to gatekeep. I don't chase down everything he writes (I own Beyond the...

That has been my experience as well. My suspicion is that Yochai, like myself and many others in the Post-OSR, doesn't like a small...

To your point, Gary Gygax himself wrote in The Strategic Review, that even in the longest running games in either Blackmoor or Greyhawk...

I don't disagree, I think the possibility of this kind of play and some mechanics to support it exist within OD&D, but they are...

The problem with this is it really only worked if you were playing the game for really long or really frequent periods. I've mentioned...

My own reading is that both Lake Geneva and the West Coast D&D scene missed part of the point of OD&D, because I do suspect that it was...

I listened to the Ben and Jon interview last night, and it seems like it really only touches on any of this tangentially, insofar as Ben...