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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 9087681" data-attributes="member: 694">This reminds me of yet another viral/semi-foundational statement of what the OSR is about: <a href="https://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=5969" target="_blank">Five Things That Needed Saying</a>. It cuts right to the matter of the OSR being about one specific play-style, part reconstruction and part innovation, and largely uninterested in what people who weren't playing in an OSR-like style were doing &quot;back in the day,&quot; even if they were playing in 1980 or 1977 or 1974. OSR isn't for gamers who don't like the style, it's for gamers who do like it. (Astonishing that this needs to be spelled out.)If the complaint is that some people are overstating the &quot;authenticity&quot; of the style, then okay, I guess there might be some people somewhere doing that, maybe. Cool story, but it's kind of beside the point. (I'm not convinced that it's a real issue, though. Sounds like more of a quixotic strawman if you ask me.) If, on the other hand, it's just the general coopting of the phrase &quot;old-school&quot; that rankles, I sympathize, but I don't think there's any hope of changing the entrenched terminology at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 9087681, member: 694"] This reminds me of yet another viral/semi-foundational statement of what the OSR is about: [URL='https://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5969']Five Things That Needed Saying[/URL]. It cuts right to the matter of the OSR being about one specific play-style, part reconstruction and part innovation, and largely uninterested in what people who [I]weren't[/I] playing in an OSR-like style were doing "back in the day," even if they were playing in 1980 or 1977 or 1974. OSR isn't [I]for[/I] gamers who don't like the style, it's for gamers who [I]do[/I] like it. (Astonishing that this needs to be spelled out.) If the complaint is that some people are overstating the "authenticity" of the style, then okay, I guess there might be some people somewhere doing that, maybe. Cool story, but it's kind of beside the point. (I'm not convinced that it's a real issue, though. Sounds like more of a quixotic strawman if you ask me.) If, on the other hand, it's just the general coopting of the phrase "old-school" that rankles, I sympathize, but I don't think there's any hope of changing the entrenched terminology at this point. [/QUOTE]

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