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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philotomy Jurament" data-source="post: 4440166" data-attributes="member: 20854">Yeah, I've noticed more new people showing up in the old school forums (e.g. Dragonsfoot, et cetera).  I think there's been a small resurgence of interest in the TSR editions.  Traffic on <a href="http://www.philotomy.com" target="_blank">my site</a> has definitely increased, and there are a lot more blogs and old-school forums than there used to be (e.g. <a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Grognardia</a>).  There is also more publishing activity.  Labyrinth Lord is going into retail distribution.  There's an old school magazine (<a href="http://www.fightonmagazine.com" target="_blank">Fight On!</a>) available, and another one (Knockspell) on its way.  The <a href="http://odd74.proboards76.com/index.cgi" target="_blank">Original D&D Discussion Forums</a> have taken off pretty solidly.  There are 1e modules available from companies like Pied Piper Publishing, Expeditious Retreat Press, and Goodman Games.  In addition to 1e (OSRIC) and B/X (Labyrinth Lord), there'll soon be a 0e/white box clone, too: Swords & Wizardy: White Box is in the works.  There's a pretty cool Chainmail + 0e variant ruleset out called <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/elflairgames" target="_blank">Spellcraft & Swordplay</a> (it uses Chainmail style combat with 6-siders).  I've seen more discussion of 1e and TSR-era D&D on sites like rpg.net, too.</blockquote>