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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9784754" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>Seems pretty solid. </p><p></p><p>I'm wrangling over and trying to figure out how to map the OSR explosion onto it. </p><p></p><p>The seminal discussions and ramp-up conform pretty closely to your silver age, but the blogosphere explosion started in 2007-2008. Delta's D&D Hotspot in March 2007, Sham's Grog & Blog Feb 2008, Grognardia Mar 2008, Monsters & Manuals May 2008, Michael Curtis' Society of Torch, Pole & Rope (whence sprang Stonehell) Aug 2008, Bat in the Attic Oct 2008, etc. (Tenfootpole didn't launch until 2011, though IIRC Bryce was posting reviews on forums earlier, Goblin Punch not until 2012). The One Page Dungeon Contest started in 2009. </p><p></p><p>For a while there was definitely an OSR Golden Age in which discussion and creation just EXPLODED, and it was almost all free stuff, before it got commercialized. I didn't even participate in the Google+ part of it, but that was another enormous <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/google-plus-mixtape-track-02-super-band.html" target="_blank">collaborative creative space</a>, featuring <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/01/google-plus-mix-tape-track-01.html" target="_blank">near-constant gaming</a> and idea sharing.</p><p></p><p>In terms of available products (many of them still free!) and systems we're clearly still in a golden age for this area of gaming. And high production values have become much more common, but that's been enabled by the commercialization of so much of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9784754, member: 7026594"] Seems pretty solid. I'm wrangling over and trying to figure out how to map the OSR explosion onto it. The seminal discussions and ramp-up conform pretty closely to your silver age, but the blogosphere explosion started in 2007-2008. Delta's D&D Hotspot in March 2007, Sham's Grog & Blog Feb 2008, Grognardia Mar 2008, Monsters & Manuals May 2008, Michael Curtis' Society of Torch, Pole & Rope (whence sprang Stonehell) Aug 2008, Bat in the Attic Oct 2008, etc. (Tenfootpole didn't launch until 2011, though IIRC Bryce was posting reviews on forums earlier, Goblin Punch not until 2012). The One Page Dungeon Contest started in 2009. For a while there was definitely an OSR Golden Age in which discussion and creation just EXPLODED, and it was almost all free stuff, before it got commercialized. I didn't even participate in the Google+ part of it, but that was another enormous [URL='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/google-plus-mixtape-track-02-super-band.html']collaborative creative space[/URL], featuring [URL='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/01/google-plus-mix-tape-track-01.html']near-constant gaming[/URL] and idea sharing. In terms of available products (many of them still free!) and systems we're clearly still in a golden age for this area of gaming. And high production values have become much more common, but that's been enabled by the commercialization of so much of it. [/QUOTE]
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