User:ACodispo/Old School Revival article improvement

For saving notes and resources about improving Old School Revival.

Todo List

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  • sort the sources below by date
  • review sources for reliability

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Possible Sources for Citations

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Recent articles about OSR:

  • https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-i.html
    • "Swan's review of WG5 (Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure) in Space Gamer #73 is a much deeper exploration of his thoughts on how tired old-school D&D had become for him, but his review is written with the sense that this feeling is a much wider one. "As roleplaying becomes more sophisticated, those early days of Dungeons & Dragons seem long ago indeed. The once-fascinating attraction of assuming the identity of a mighty warrior or magician purely to explore a creature-filled dungeon in search of treasure now seems hopelessly quaint to today's experienced roleplayer. I'd venture a guess that Gary Gygax's cheerful admission in the preface ... that 'this is what is generally termed a hack-and-slash' module will send many roleplayers running for the hills." In the same issue, Swan gave a glowing review of DL2 (Dragons of Despair), despite noting that it was "tightly scripted" and "not particularly flexible"."
  • https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/osr-rpgs-modern-roleplaying
  • https://screenrant.com/best-old-school-tabletop-rpgs-osr-genre-dnd/
  • https://www.wired.com/2009/07/a-quick-primer-for-old-school-gaming/
    • "Finch writes a concise and illuminating treatise on the benefits and drawbacks to the different styles of gaming. He offers a number of humorous scripts as comparison between the old and new camps and presents his four "Zen Moments" where original RPGs differ most drastically from their modern counterparts."

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Drafts

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Terminology

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Style of Play

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History

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Effects on the Industry

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  • re-publishing of DnD classics materials by WotC This was put into History section
  • use of "OSR" as informal branding on drivethru and elsewhere

Citations

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  1. ^ Foster, T. "The long journey home..." Dragonsfoot. Retrieved 24 June 2021.