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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 3131306" data-attributes="member: 26563">I'll just add a couple of clarifying remarks:1) the list P&P put in above, which is from a Knights&Knaves thread I'm doing, actually doesn't contain predorders for works that aren't finished (there's only one module I know if in that category) and it doesn't contain the 1e products that aren't using the OSRIC identifier.  As far as I know, that category includes only Kenzer and Rob Kuntz.  Links to Rob's modules are in the body of the thread but not in P&P's post, which is the top page where I try to keep the list current by updating it.2) As P&P said, there is a book of new monsters, Monsters of Myth, coming out that will be usable by all 1e gamers.  It is OSRIC-based for the 1e rules.  Expected before Christmas.3) In addition to Monsters of Myth, which is of general interest, there's the Compendium (in the works).  The Compendium has a two-fold purpose, and unlike Monsters of Myth it will be useless to those who already play 1e and aren't interested in publishing.  Lots of publishers have asked for monster and treasure write-ups to give them the same legal peace of mind as the core OSRIC document does.  So we're creating that in the Compendium.  Also, there are many gamers interested in playing 1e (mainly "again," but my daughter also mentioned this in connection with her high school) who can't wrap their heads back around the presentation of 1e rules in the old rulebooks.  After you get used to d20, the old books are unbelievably hard to navigate.  So, in addition to being a publisher resource, OSRIC will hopefully also serve as a sort of analogue to the Holmes Edition basic set, providing players who want to do a one-shot or try-out game with a quick and more familiar presentation of the 1e rules, for free.   This objective is secondary to the goal of building a library of new 1e resources, but it seems that the organization of the real books is a serious bar to people's sampling (or re-sampling) the 1e rules.  OSRIC will hopefully allow for an easier re-introduction to those rules.  When I started playing 1e again after years of d20 it was shockingly difficult to use the original books.  I guess in middle school I was smarter than I am now...</blockquote>

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