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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8856414" data-attributes="member: 5142">While I do think that there is a certain degree of "you should know from D&D," I'm not sure if OSR is really looking at WotC era D&D for that, especially not at 5e D&D to fill in those gaps. The OSR community prizes a lot of old sourcebooks from TSR era, particularly B/X and 1e D&D. These tend to be lighter in hard lore. Moreover, there is also a lot of OSR, particularly of the more philosophical OSR branch, that is ditching D&D style lore in favor of their own. Necrotic Gnome preserves the skeleton of old school D&D lore for OSE, but Necrotic Gnome's house setting Dolmenwood basically ditches quite a bit of it in favor of more fairy tale inspired fantasy.I also think we would be remiss if we thought that this is solely a matter of "you should know from D&D," as opposed to "you should know from other media." I don't think most people, for example, are bringing their understanding of orcs from D&D, but, rather, from Lord of the Rings or even World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls. I don't think that my partner, for example, can tell you one thing about D&D lore. They don't care. But I don't think that they would have an issue understanding a dragon or orc that popped up in D&D or imagining how they may be used in the game. I also knew what orcs were before I ever heard of D&D in high school because I had been playing Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness and also reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Fair.</blockquote>

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