What are the OSRs?

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Episode 174 streamed live Tuesday January 16, 2024

Main Topic: What are the OSR’s of today? Old School Renaissance or Old School Revival

A little History:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_Renaissance

A couple of primers:

A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (Matt Finch and Mythmere Games 2008):
https://ia601802.us.archive.org/28/items/a-quick-primer-for-old-school-gaming/A%20Quick%20Primer%20for%20Old%20School%20Gaming.pdf

2. New OSR Primers (Lumpkin, Milton, & Perry):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VSa6hSvQAlyvkTfmqhix1Z2EoFJPR-CP/view

The Different Flavors of the OSR today

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-v.html

“It was simply a rebirth of interest in old-school Dungeons &
Dragons, specifically as its original designers intended it to be
played. Its adherents had never entirely disappeared, but it was
certainly a playerbase on life support for the longest time. Around
2007 began a renaissance, one that manifested in a variety of ways
but at its heart was firmly rooted in mechanical compatibility
with TSR-era D&D and a sharing of certain key design principles
that went with those editions and the way their designers intended them to be played…”

The main four variants:

Classic OSR: The original wave. Has both compatibility and principles.

OSR-Adjacent: Some principles, some compatibility.

NSR: Principles, but not compatibility.

Commercial OSR: Compatibility, but not principles.

OTHERS:

FKR:Free Kriegsspiel Revolution

Numbers don’t add up to a game.
If the fiction fits, try it.
You play worlds, not rules.
https://followmeanddie.com/2021/10/02/fkr-free-kriegsspiel-revolution/

Great video by ben Milton of Questing beast for overview:https://youtu.be/d4lvrC3ZBzM

BRoSR:https://youtu.be/JIEW2r6deXs
“AD&D 1st edition with absolutely no house rules, do every single thing Gary told you to do." Also patron play / Braunstein where many
domain level characters that would be NPC are run by the players"

More annoying links:

1) https://jonmollison.com/2022/11/10/brosr-principles-a-primer/

2) https://bdubsanddragons.blogspot.com/2021/11/bdubs-essential-guide-to-patron-play.html

3) https://bdubsanddragons.blogspot.com/2021/07/jeffrogaxian-time-keeping-vs-variable.html

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