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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 5136396" data-attributes="member: 6616">I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, and I don't really understand how the OSR sees DIY as one of "their" things. The DIY gene is ingrained in gamer culture, and the designers of 3e, Hackmaster and every other rpg, got to be designers because they started saying "I can do this" and hacking away at their typewriters or word processors.Don't get me wrong, I realise that the DIY thing is big with the OSR, and there are lots of things to be proud of, but to me, DIY is something I connect with all rpgs, be they New School or Old School. People have been saying "I can do this better than the professionals" since the dawn of our hobby, and many have shown it to be true, among others plenty of OSR efforts over the last years, but also tons of other stuff before that.Maybe it's because I see myself as both a DIY writer and a professional designer that I don't get the distinction between the two. When I design for commercial games, I write together with others stuff that I come up with. Just like when I write for myself.Of course, when I write for myself, the publishing venue is not a printed book, but a blog, but apart from that, it's the same thing to me.Maybe I'm just confused. Wouldn't be the first time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />/M</blockquote>

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