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<blockquote data-quote="tenkar" data-source="post: 6226428" data-attributes="member: 15047">I'm not sure you can pin down the sudden uptick in the OSR to any one thing in particular. However, there are a few things I think I can point to:1 - OSRIC and Castles &amp; Crusades were instrumental in bringing &quot;old school gaming&quot; to current, living systems. They showed it could be done. Others have followed.2 - Many of the OSR games have their rules released for free in PDF format - the buy in is often risk free.3 - Google+ has a many communities devoted to &quot;old school gaming&quot;. 4 - DnD Next has caused some gamers to re-evaluate their game system preferences. Why play systems that WotC constantly changes when OSR systems are &quot;always green&quot; in PDF?5 - Houseruling - OSR systems are simply made to be houseruled. The vast majority of the non-core systems are houserules of the ones that came before them. 6+ - just about every reason already stated in this thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As for more recent upticks, Swords &amp; Wizardry Complete going free in PDF earlier this month has certainly raised the profile of the OSR in general. I've distributed over 1750 copies via my blog since 11/5 and ENWorld has distributed over 600 copies since 11/17. These are just the two sources I can find numbers for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tenkar, post: 6226428, member: 15047"] I'm not sure you can pin down the sudden uptick in the OSR to any one thing in particular. However, there are a few things I think I can point to: 1 - OSRIC and Castles & Crusades were instrumental in bringing "old school gaming" to current, living systems. They showed it could be done. Others have followed. 2 - Many of the OSR games have their rules released for free in PDF format - the buy in is often risk free. 3 - Google+ has a many communities devoted to "old school gaming". 4 - DnD Next has caused some gamers to re-evaluate their game system preferences. Why play systems that WotC constantly changes when OSR systems are "always green" in PDF? 5 - Houseruling - OSR systems are simply made to be houseruled. The vast majority of the non-core systems are houserules of the ones that came before them. 6+ - just about every reason already stated in this thread ;) As for more recent upticks, Swords & Wizardry Complete going free in PDF earlier this month has certainly raised the profile of the OSR in general. I've distributed over 1750 copies via my blog since 11/5 and ENWorld has distributed over 600 copies since 11/17. These are just the two sources I can find numbers for. [/QUOTE]

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