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<blockquote data-quote="Waller" data-source="post: 9192295" data-attributes="member: 6747584">As somebody not in the 'OSR' community I've always wondered... so, genuine question-- what's the point? Why are hundreds of people producing the same near-identical system? What's the point?I get 'sci-fi version' of the system, or a licensed IP version, but what's the motivation behind a hundred fantasy clones of the same game, all competing with each other, but all compatible?I look at 5E and there are thousands of 5E-powered or 5E-compatible stuff, and 5E settings, and 5E supplements, but clones? There's only 2 off the top of my head. Level Up and Kobold Press. Maybe there's a couple more, but that's not the point. What's the point of so many similar OSR games*?And I'm saying they're similar because *they say that, or at least that's the message their marketing has communicated to me. I've not really looked at them, mainly because they seem to represent themselves as all the same, and I have some old D&amp;D stuff already.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Waller, post: 9192295, member: 6747584"] As somebody not in the 'OSR' community I've always wondered... so, genuine question-- what's the point? Why are hundreds of people producing the same near-identical system? What's the point? I get 'sci-fi version' of the system, or a licensed IP version, but what's the motivation behind a hundred fantasy clones of the same game, all competing with each other, but all compatible? I look at 5E and there are thousands of 5E-powered or 5E-compatible stuff, and 5E settings, and 5E supplements, but clones? There's only 2 off the top of my head. Level Up and Kobold Press. Maybe there's a couple more, but that's not the point. What's the point of so many similar OSR games*? [I]And I'm saying they're similar because *they[/I] say that, or at least that's the message their marketing has communicated to me. I've not really looked at them, mainly because they seem to represent themselves as all the same, and I have some old D&D stuff already. [/QUOTE]

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