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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...

Not always. The bad DMing habits and behaviors Gus identified were sometimes encouraged by some of the advice in the modules or Gary's...

I disagree. I played a lot of D&D in the 1980's and there were plenty of different ways the game was played. There were good and bad...

Well, I feel rather miserable committing to reviewing Brozer now. Having read it, looking at it again and again has truly become a slog...

While I agree that adventure content has a good deal to do with how deadly a given campaign is ... there are absolutely bad refereeing...

I always figure that one of the important aspects of older editions is the relative ease of rolling up new characters. Consequences are...