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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8640481" data-attributes="member: 5142">The thing is that OSR tends to be split between Retroclone OSR and Philosophical OSR. OSR started out as people who wanted to keep playing D&amp;D as they were used to from the TSR era. They realized that they could reprint their own versions, which became &quot;OSR as retroclone.&quot; Somehow in the OSR community, B/X (almost overwhelmingly) became the prevailing edition of choice, over against OD&amp;D, 1e D&amp;D, and 2e D&amp;D. OSE is straight-up B/X retroclone, even going as far as converting AD&amp;D to B/X. However, in the process of articulating and advocating for why people would want to play the older versions of D&amp;D, &quot;OSR as game principles&quot; emerged. I think that Black Hack falls more into the &quot;OSR as game principles&quot; camp. Ben Milton (aka Questing Beast) tends to also fall more into this camp as well. This camp tends to make more radical changes to the base game: e.g., Electric Bastionland, Maze Rats, Black Hack, Mörk Borg, etc. This means you more likely to see things like Black Hack's Usage Die here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8640481, member: 5142"] The thing is that OSR tends to be split between Retroclone OSR and Philosophical OSR. OSR started out as people who wanted to keep playing D&D as they were used to from the TSR era. They realized that they could reprint their own versions, which became "OSR as retroclone." Somehow in the OSR community, B/X (almost overwhelmingly) became the prevailing edition of choice, over against OD&D, 1e D&D, and 2e D&D. OSE is straight-up B/X retroclone, even going as far as converting AD&D to B/X. However, in the process of articulating and advocating for why people would want to play the older versions of D&D, "OSR as game principles" emerged. I think that Black Hack falls more into the "OSR as game principles" camp. Ben Milton (aka Questing Beast) tends to also fall more into this camp as well. This camp tends to make more radical changes to the base game: e.g., Electric Bastionland, Maze Rats, Black Hack, Mörk Borg, etc. This means you more likely to see things like Black Hack's Usage Die here. [/QUOTE]

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