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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7632079" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Been there. Done that. Have the RPG for it.</p><p></p><p>Like I said, I kinda understand the fascination with old school play, I just don't understand OSR as it actually is. If we wanted to play CoC in the 1980's, we would have just done so. </p><p></p><p>There is a certain sensibility here that is old school rules, grimdark setting, that strongly suggests content creators that came of age in the 1990's and who have been trapped in some Upside Down parallel dimension ever since. </p><p></p><p>Like the Duffer Brothers are 10 years younger than I am. They are looking back at the 80's through the lens of having missed it. I was actually there. I was the 12 year old GM in the basement with my nerdy outcast friends. Same with 'Ready Player One'. It reads like a book by a young kid who missed it and it's less about his nostalgia for what he experienced as a kid than it is his regret as a kid too young to have done it for missing out. It's all Elliot going 'Let me play guys!'. </p><p></p><p>It's all munchkin crap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7632079, member: 4937"] Been there. Done that. Have the RPG for it. Like I said, I kinda understand the fascination with old school play, I just don't understand OSR as it actually is. If we wanted to play CoC in the 1980's, we would have just done so. There is a certain sensibility here that is old school rules, grimdark setting, that strongly suggests content creators that came of age in the 1990's and who have been trapped in some Upside Down parallel dimension ever since. Like the Duffer Brothers are 10 years younger than I am. They are looking back at the 80's through the lens of having missed it. I was actually there. I was the 12 year old GM in the basement with my nerdy outcast friends. Same with 'Ready Player One'. It reads like a book by a young kid who missed it and it's less about his nostalgia for what he experienced as a kid than it is his regret as a kid too young to have done it for missing out. It's all Elliot going 'Let me play guys!'. It's all munchkin crap. [/QUOTE]
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