OSR A history of the OSR in blog posts

[Malmuria]

Really helpful collection of essential blog posts for the OSR from 2006-now! As I said in another thread, retaining knowledge on ephemeral, decentralized media can be difficult, so these kinds of indices are useful

Keystones

Blogging has been a central mode of discourse since the early years of the OSR play style, and it has remained as such across different peri...

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[Yora]

Great list, pretty conclusive. All the big names I can think of are on it. But I would add the following.

The long haul: time and distance in D&D by Joseph Manola

The Proairetic Code and Player-Driven Mystery in the Sandbox by Chris Kutalik

What is a Dungeon Crawl? by Gus L

Exploration Play by Gus L

Your Demon Lord Doesn't Need That Many Hit Dice by Joseph Manola

I think Gus and Joseph really are the guys who can explain oldschool roleplaying to people not already familiar with it.

Also nice to see Grognardia agreed with my main thesis on how D&D went bad back in 2008.