NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shakeshift" data-source="post: 8543916" data-attributes="member: 7034572">I have nothing but respect for the OSR peeps. I'm an old-timey gamer from the early 80's, and my homebrew Greyhawk campaign is going into it's 39th year (we're playing the adventuring grandchildren of the original core group from the 1980's) but I look at something like the new Star Frontiers game (at the time they wanted $80 for it) and I just laughed because they need the money from me IMMEDIATELY but they can't show me a table of contents, an author, or even a PDF sampling of eight pages from their 200+ page rulebook?To me, they're not OSR. They're not even legitimate. They don't even speak the same language.Venger Satanis is a guy who sacrifices his creativity to make something in gaming that'll give him an erection every time, and so his defense is "It's too sexy and sophisticated for your beta minds to comprehend!" Ernie Gygax is willing to put his name on each and any product he can (even when he has no idea what he's putting his name on) in order to try and appear relevant to modern gamers and to outdo other family members who have carried his father's legacy further and farther. Victor Dorso can't run a successful game, but he wants to go down in TTRPG history as the guy who "reunified" the Dave Arneson/Gary Gygax power couple even though nobody from either side acknowledges him or even gives him the time of day. Victor doesn't care about unification, he only cares about being a famous gaming celebrity.These are all people who are essentially unsuccessful, and the unifying theme of all of them is the undeniable stink of failure from each and every one of them.</blockquote>

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