OSR Why does OSR Design Draw You In?

[Arilyn]

Nostalgia doesn't draw me to the OSR, because I didn't like D&D back in the day. What is drawing me in is the imaginative ideas and creativity flowing from the modern OSR. Hole in the Oak from Gavin Norman got me excited to run a dungeon crawl for the first time ever. Brad Kerr's Wyvern Song was another. And from there, Shadowdark, Dolmenwood, Mausritter with some Cairn dabbling.

 

[zakael19]

Nostalgia doesn't draw me to the OSR, because I didn't like D&D back in the day. What is drawing me in is the imaginative ideas and creativity flowing from the modern OSR. Hole in the Oak from Gavin Norman got me excited to run a dungeon crawl for the first time ever. Brad Kerr's Wyvern Song was another. And from there, Shadowdark, Dolmenwood, Mausritter with some Cairn dabbling.

Yeah same, between the formatting & the vibes of stuff like Winter's Daughter it really opened my eyes to what was in the realm of possible for "dungeon crawling."