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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PapersAndPaychecks" data-source="post: 6243782" data-attributes="member: 28854">What has caused the OSR Revival?There are probably people who play OSR games because of nostalgia.  I'm sure they're in the minority, because I talk to OSR people most days and I listen to what they say.  Nostalgia is not normally among the reasons they give.On my computer, I have a copy of DOSBox.  At the moment, I'm replaying Sword of Aragon and Master of Orion 2.  Is this because of nostalgia?  Is it because I love command line interfaces or 300x240 graphics?  Or is it because they're bloody good games and I like to play them and I don't give a rat's behind what the graphics look like?Soon, I will replay Planescape: Torment again.  And I still like Civ3, as well.  This has nothing to do with nostalgia either.The OSR is to WOTC editions as Linux is to Microsoft.  It comes in lots of different flavours, all of which are fundamentally similar; the people who use it are, by and large, enthusiasts and have, by and large, their own particular ingredients to their gaming systems that they like.  They generally expect games to be free, or low-cost, so they can afford to try lots of different ones within their gaming budget.  And they don't mind a bit of hacking to get their systems running exactly how they want them to run.In short, like Linux people, OSR people tend to be (a) quite experienced and (b) control freaks.  (Linux people do tend to have longer beards, though.)</blockquote>

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