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7/7/2025, 8:04:32 PM
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The autism is kind of just about where the "Old School" style cutoff should be, and that's influenced heavily by the OSR community.
In the early 2000's, PDF sharing wasn't as easy and people were much more scared of WotC lawyers. People also didn't have phones or tablets, the internet was much slower, so even using PDFs wasn't as easy, and people also even to this day often just want the printed books (though they didn't have print-on-demand services). More importantly, while there was lots of old content, people still paradoxically wanted NEW content for older games, and a lot of early OSR stuff was made for X system with the intention that it was virtually compatible with an older D&D edition.
The OSR community was always this really loose group of loose groups, with a lot of different points of view and even understandings of what "Old School" actually meant. Most people just sort of accepted that not everyone would see eye-to-eye about what made older games good, and lots of wild interpretations were played and discussed under the OSR umbrella.
Small groups, however, keep trying to fight over trying to impose a single definition of what OSR means onto everyone else, and the K&KA group really tried hard to establish a firm line excluding 2e that was largely rejected by DF, in no small part because 2e AD&D was the 2nd most popular game on those forums. The irony is that these sort of efforts to gatekeep the OSR have been so off-putting that it's contributed to new creators not even wanting to be associated with those letters, so rather than it being a marketing term used to try and add some sort of credibility it's slowly becoming a dark mark that people want to avoid.
Basically, some autists don't understand people have different tastes and try to control something they don't have control over.
The autism is kind of just about where the "Old School" style cutoff should be, and that's influenced heavily by the OSR community.
In the early 2000's, PDF sharing wasn't as easy and people were much more scared of WotC lawyers. People also didn't have phones or tablets, the internet was much slower, so even using PDFs wasn't as easy, and people also even to this day often just want the printed books (though they didn't have print-on-demand services). More importantly, while there was lots of old content, people still paradoxically wanted NEW content for older games, and a lot of early OSR stuff was made for X system with the intention that it was virtually compatible with an older D&D edition.
The OSR community was always this really loose group of loose groups, with a lot of different points of view and even understandings of what "Old School" actually meant. Most people just sort of accepted that not everyone would see eye-to-eye about what made older games good, and lots of wild interpretations were played and discussed under the OSR umbrella.
Small groups, however, keep trying to fight over trying to impose a single definition of what OSR means onto everyone else, and the K&KA group really tried hard to establish a firm line excluding 2e that was largely rejected by DF, in no small part because 2e AD&D was the 2nd most popular game on those forums. The irony is that these sort of efforts to gatekeep the OSR have been so off-putting that it's contributed to new creators not even wanting to be associated with those letters, so rather than it being a marketing term used to try and add some sort of credibility it's slowly becoming a dark mark that people want to avoid.
Basically, some autists don't understand people have different tastes and try to control something they don't have control over.
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