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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5132359" data-attributes="member: 26473">To Ourph's capsule history of the OSR, I'll simply add that in addition to gamers who continued to play pre-3e editions of D&amp;D, like the folks at D'foot and K&amp;K, there were some who gravitated toward older roleplaying games as they became frustrated with 3e and d20.My personal &quot;OSR&quot; was Traveller, which reignited my interest in games like Top Secret, Boot Hill, and Flashing Blades.However, as estar notes, while there was a resurgence in interest in older games, the OSR is predominately focused on pre-WOTC D&amp;D, with more recent forays into planetary romance.For what it's worth, I believe there is something to the argument that 'old school' is about playstyle, because even though I'm not a big D&amp;D fan, I found much in common with the way the community at Dragonsfoot approaches roleplaying games generally, much more so than I do here.I've also read the suggestion that one of the motivating forces driving the OSR is to remind gamers that just because a game is no longer in print or actively supported by new material, it doesn't suddenly become unplayable or obsolete. I share that sentiment, very much.And in the irony department? As I was typing my post, the banner add on the left side of the screen was for Noble Knight Games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 5132359, member: 26473"] To [b]Ourph[/b]'s capsule history of the OSR, I'll simply add that in addition to gamers who continued to play pre-3e editions of [i]D&D[/i], like the folks at D'foot and K&K, there were some who gravitated toward older roleplaying games as they became frustrated with 3e and d20. My personal "OSR" was [i]Traveller[/i], which reignited my interest in games like [i]Top Secret[/i], [i]Boot Hill[/i], and [i]Flashing Blades[/i]. However, as [b]estar[/b] notes, while there was a resurgence in interest in older games, the OSR is predominately focused on pre-WOTC [i]D&D[/i], with more recent forays into planetary romance. For what it's worth, I believe there is something to the argument that 'old school' is about playstyle, because even though I'm not a big [i]D&D[/i] fan, I found much in common with the way the community at Dragonsfoot approaches roleplaying games generally, much more so than I do here. I've also read the suggestion that one of the motivating forces driving the OSR is to remind gamers that just because a game is no longer in print or actively supported by new material, it doesn't suddenly become unplayable or obsolete. I share that sentiment, very much. [SIZE="1"]And in the irony department? As I was typing my post, the banner add on the left side of the screen was for Noble Knight Games.[/SIZE] :) [/QUOTE]

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