>>96916390
>We have OSR now.
No we don't.

We had an osr.

What we have now is a bunch of people who collectively like playing, except on 4chan where it's mainly people who pretend to play but really just argue about, older versions of rpg and some new rpg that bear some mechanical similarity to these older games and/or some tonal similarity to how these avant garde progressives like to imagine games were played 40 years ago.

Just as the Renaissance arrived, lasted for a few centuries then ended a few hundred years ago, the old school renaissance/revival arrived, peaked, and ended. The ongoing influence of the Renaissance is seen today with things like science, humanism, non-vocational education (not saying that liberal arts education and a lot of it is completely stupid like pic related), public libraries, printing, realistic art and perspective so I'm not saying that old school practices re-popularised by the osr went away but the renaissance period is over.

The Renaissance ended as other cultural and artistic and intellectual movements arose to supplement or replace those that arose with the Renaissance. That's a key part of a renaissance, the new things that arise with it. The osr is stagnant. There was a resurgence in old school popularity, a few new ideas were introduced, they didn't have to be everyone's taste and didn't have to be universally adopted, but now it has calcified, particularly on this board. Old school is cool, it's much better than anything WOTC has offered under the DND label, but we're not in and old school renaissance now. Especially on this board it's a few people huddling around the dying embers of BX and AD&D 1e and maybe a few things that are very close to those, ignoring what the old school renaissance was. That's not a renaissance and neither it is tradition, they but preserve the ashes, not the flame