>>95923619
>The decade limit isn't *supposed* to coincide with the release of 2e. It's supposed to coincide with when Gygax effectively lost control of the company's direction and bad storyfagging modules started to get published.
This isn't a good metric because dragonlance and other storyfag stuff was being published at the tail end of that "first decade" before Gary actually left. And as pointed out - ToEE and other good material also gets excised.
It's a sloppy filter, especially for newbies or old hats coming back after a while (or who find the retardation of OSR stuff elsewhere to be cancer).

A simple rewording to keep the storyfag shit out is what should be done.

>>95923635
>use true Old School principles
>use true Old School mechanics
>no storyfagging, hickmanism or buildfag shit
>but oops you sourced the worldbuilding from the wrong edition, now you have to LEAVE
If I had the insane amount of energy and focus I could build a true Old School "Bakieth" setting with playable living-weapon automatons, psionics, and spurious amounts of rather-useless low-level magic items, focused on delving into ancient titan ruins filled with drow and other nasty shit, on a recently-colonized jungle continent and it would be 100% within the rules AND spirit of /osrg/.

Keeping the mongrel rats out is not contingent on worshipping Gygaxian TSR, the game is the thing.