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<blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9443778" data-attributes="member: 7045072">Right, compatibility is great! Everything I write is compatible with a game from 1981 and so converted to things based on that either without change (OSE, Lab Lord) or with trivial change - most other OSR systems.&nbsp;Great - I wouldn't use these rules ... unless they were useful to the specific setting involved and it sounds like that's not a problem because the majority of the rules are already rules that I and 99% of people in the post-OSR use or are familiar with. By saying everything is compatible with this ruleset one is putting the cart before the horse. Sure, it's better for the authors then nothing being compatible, but why release three books when 2 of them are the same as 100 other rulesets?&nbsp; I salute the authors for releasing a book of setting, but why not release 2.5 books of setting and a half book or less of &quot;ways to modify B/X and friends to work best with our setting&quot;? What's the goal here? Why rehash the endlessly rehashed?Again, I feel a bit bad snarking on Outcast Silver Raiders, because I assume the folks behind it are nice enough and they did make a nice looking product ... but dang if anyone deserves it they might. They have the chutzpah to name their thing &quot;OSR&quot;. That alone feels very commercial ... in a bad bad way ... especially as someone who spent years giving away free &quot;OSR&quot; stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gus L, post: 9443778, member: 7045072"] Right, compatibility is great! Everything I write is compatible with a game from 1981 and so converted to things based on that either without change (OSE, Lab Lord) or with trivial change - most other OSR systems. Great - I wouldn't use these rules ... unless they were useful to the specific setting involved and it sounds like that's not a problem because the majority of the rules are already rules that I and 99% of people in the post-OSR use or are familiar with. By saying everything is compatible with this ruleset one is putting the cart before the horse. Sure, it's better for the authors then nothing being compatible, but why release three books when 2 of them are the same as 100 other rulesets? I salute the authors for releasing a book of setting, but why not release 2.5 books of setting and a half book or less of "ways to modify B/X and friends to work best with our setting"? What's the goal here? Why rehash the endlessly rehashed? Again, I feel a bit bad snarking on Outcast Silver Raiders, because I assume the folks behind it are nice enough and they did make a nice looking product ... but dang if anyone deserves it they might. They have the chutzpah to name their thing "OSR". That alone feels very commercial ... in a bad bad way ... especially as someone who spent years giving away free "OSR" stuff. [/QUOTE]

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