Noticing an OSR personality accusing me of downplaying the innovations of the OSR and presenting many of the scene's innovations as my own.
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Noticing an OSR personality accusing me of downplaying the innovations of the OSR and presenting many of the scene's innovations as my own.
That doesn't *sound* like me as I have never invented anything when it comes to RPG stuff.
In fact, I don't really value novelty in RPGs as I am aware that the hobby is trending away from my preferred style. If you look at my blog, most of the stuff I write about is older and when I do look at new stuff it is generally in terms of 'did this work for me?'
I also acknowledge that there is innovation in the OSR, it's just that most of these innovations serve to make OSR games less attractive to me as a GM.
In fact, most modern OSR stuff is less useful, less interesting, and less evocative to me than OG D&D stuff from the 80s and I can only account for that difference in terms of innovations introduced by the OSR.
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I also acknowledge that there is innovation in the OSR, it's just that most of these innovations serve to make OSR games less attractive to me as a GM.
In fact, most modern OSR stuff is less useful, less interesting, and less evocative to me than OG D&D stuff from the 80s and I can only account for that difference in terms of innovations introduced by the OSR.
@Taskerland I dislike the implicit wording of OSR as if this is what we did in.. some halcyon gaming era when we played "like that"
And I didn't, and you can step off my porch.
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@Taskerland OSR personalities and an inability to read, name a more iconic duo (other than OSR personalities and latent fascist leanings, i guess)
@vortiwife I assume he's got me confused with someone else.
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@vortiwife I assume he's got me confused with someone else.
Morbeau Wash, at Baskerlands.
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Morbeau Wash, at Baskerlands.
@Printdevil @vortiwife But you don't understand! I invented reaction tables!
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@Printdevil @vortiwife But you don't understand! I invented reaction tables!
Reaction Tables! You bastard they are the bane of my existence. Bloody Chemistry
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Reaction Tables! You bastard they are the bane of my existence. Bloody Chemistry
@Printdevil I too am vigorous in air @vortiwife
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@Printdevil I too am vigorous in air @vortiwife
That's totally a French-Symbolist Era type poet thing to announce when you are at the time being inert to the point of sessile smoking opium.
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I also acknowledge that there is innovation in the OSR, it's just that most of these innovations serve to make OSR games less attractive to me as a GM.
In fact, most modern OSR stuff is less useful, less interesting, and less evocative to me than OG D&D stuff from the 80s and I can only account for that difference in terms of innovations introduced by the OSR.
Always interesting when people talk about you in an unguarded manner but I did not expect to be accused of stealing ideas from the OSR.
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Always interesting when people talk about you in an unguarded manner but I did not expect to be accused of stealing ideas from the OSR.
@Taskerland Yes it's demeaning, we both know you steal your ideas from Joris-Karl Huysmans
Suggesting you steal from OSR is contemptible slander.
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Always interesting when people talk about you in an unguarded manner but I did not expect to be accused of stealing ideas from the OSR.
@vortiwife and I want you to spill the tea now though.
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@vortiwife and I want you to spill the tea now though.
@Printdevil @Taskerland sorry to crush the ego of annoying OSR types but i don't think there's anything i'm less interested in than which Personality it was
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@Printdevil @Taskerland sorry to crush the ego of annoying OSR types but i don't think there's anything i'm less interested in than which Personality it was
I don't care about that, I want to find strange random information about Vazh that I can bring up in two years time in a weird bespoke meme.
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I don't care about that, I want to find strange random information about Vazh that I can bring up in two years time in a weird bespoke meme.
@Printdevil @Taskerland oh yeah THAT is the fun part
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@Printdevil @Taskerland oh yeah THAT is the fun part
Actually if only two people get it, and it never goes viral it's not a meme, it's a picture I suppose.
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Actually if only two people get it, and it never goes viral it's not a meme, it's a picture I suppose.
Out there.. robbing the beardlords.
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Out there.. robbing the beardlords.
@Printdevil @vortiwife @Taskerland I feel seen. (But the beard isn't long enough.)
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@Printdevil @vortiwife @Taskerland I feel seen. (But the beard isn't long enough.)
It's tucked into the top.
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I also acknowledge that there is innovation in the OSR, it's just that most of these innovations serve to make OSR games less attractive to me as a GM.
In fact, most modern OSR stuff is less useful, less interesting, and less evocative to me than OG D&D stuff from the 80s and I can only account for that difference in terms of innovations introduced by the OSR.
@Taskerland isn’t a new innovation in an OSR system something of a contradiction in terms? I thought they just wanted to go back to the good old days of strictly defined character classes, descending armour classes and hits to kill, without any of the modern story telling stuff.
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I also acknowledge that there is innovation in the OSR, it's just that most of these innovations serve to make OSR games less attractive to me as a GM.
In fact, most modern OSR stuff is less useful, less interesting, and less evocative to me than OG D&D stuff from the 80s and I can only account for that difference in terms of innovations introduced by the OSR.
Moreau Vazh There is something of a… contradiction doesn’t feel quite rifght… disconnect, maybe? in many of these “old school” revival “innovations”.
So many of them do not feel like natural evolutions of B/X or AD&D. There’s something remarkably 2020s feeling about them. As if the only thing that draws the designers to OSR is the grotesque aesthetic.
