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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6542017" data-attributes="member: 6716779">There has been a recent OSR resurgence and WoTC reprinted 1E, 2E, OD&D and 3.5. They did look back at TSR D&D when developing 5E and there are clones as well so yes there has been a 1E resurgence/OSR resurgence in general. It is still outclassed by Pathfinder/5E etc its just in recent years there has been an increase in AD&D/OSR type games coming out or games using similar images. I think with 4E tanking and some people getting burned out on 3.x/Pathfinder you more or less only have 1 place to go for D&D.  It is also a relative increase as well as say 14- 15 years ago everyone was playing 3.0. I found a random 1E game last year and played a few session for the 1st time since 1996/7 and that was with some Pathfinder players so go figure. I think if you go to far from the D&D foundations (1E/BECMI) you may run into trouble as you expect certain things form a D&D game and hence why there are things like Modrons and 1E type fluff in the 5E MM. They are not trying to copy 1E but they are trying to evoke it. Castles and Crusades for example is a d20 based clone of 1E more or less and it has a large number of modules available, DCC was doing well for a while, ACKs is good, and there are over 20 clones or at least were most do not have much in the way of support.</blockquote>