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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 9381789" data-attributes="member: 6563">You mean like when OSR enthusiasts go on about "kewl powers", "Mos Eisley Cantina", "pushed like a drug" (really, now?) and a whole litany of other negativity about anything that's not in the narrow play style of the 70s. It gets old and that's why (general) you get pushback.  And as long as there is this crapping on any playstyle that isn't the same as the 70s, there will like continue to be pushback because people get sick of the constant negativity. It's become so bad that it has made me disavow OSR games altogether (even though I own some OSR titles—as well as my collection of TSR-era products) because there's been enough OSR enthusiasts that behave in the same style as the stereotype of vegans (no actual vegans were harmed in the making of this post).Also, no one is calling OSR enthusiasts or older players (hell, I'm about to turn 50—I've gotten old), as a whole, sexist or racist (more likely it's just some OSR enthusiasts internalizing critiques about older products' writing and artwork and believing that those critiques apply to themselves). Though there is enough of a problem that it caused some OSR enthusiasts to create a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OSRRPG" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> without the bigotry that had become too common (and/or passively accepted without moderation) in some other OSR groups—but that's OSR enthusiasts reacting to other OSR enthusiasts, so y'know).</blockquote>

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