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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9163840" data-attributes="member: 7026594">The OSR started with the original games, and appreciation and analysis of them was the whole focus at first.  Stuff like Philotomy's Musings on OD&D and explaining its assumptions and treating them with respect rather than treating them as archaic or dumb. The original retroclones (OSRIC* especially, Basic Fantasy and Labyrinth Lord to a lesser extent) were primarily just to help folks play the original editions and buy new copies of old school rules for new players if they wanted them, during a period when drivethru reprints weren't reliably available yet.The idea that Retroclones are the point of the OSR is a misconception. The whole retroclone movement was an offshoot.  It just gets a lot of press because it keeps providing people new stuff to buy, and because that new stuff has to be marketed.(*"Old School Reference and Index Compilation"; it wasn't even trying to pretend to be a new game- far from it)I get that it's a ridiculous claim to you. You apparently don't remember the widespread rejection of 2E in the 80s by 1E players uninterested in switching/updating. You were evidently part of the percentage which liked 2E and carried over your older-school sensibilities to the newer edition while just using the cleaner mechanics.  I expect that you disregarded the changes to the XP system.</blockquote>