What is the best hope for keeping Old School; Blood, Guts, & Glory D&D alive longterm

Razor 007 · June 16, 2019, 03:28:17 AM

What will traverse the generation gap, and edition gap, and system gap?

Preach it brother!!!

Omega · June 16, 2019, 03:34:14 AM

Just play the damn game. There is no such thing as OSR because there never was a "revival/renaissance". Gameplay has not really changed over the decades and the types of play you see now were nearly all being applied pretty much right out the gate once D&D hit the shelves.

Spinachcat · June 16, 2019, 03:48:17 AM

Quote from: Omega;1092188Just play the damn game.

Exactly.

If you enjoy OSR games, run them for new players. Some of the players will become Old School devotees and continue on the tradition.

Online wank and spank won't create new players. Rolling dice and having fun will create new players.

Shawn Driscoll · June 16, 2019, 04:50:45 AM

Quote from: Razor 007;1092187What will traverse the generation gap, and edition gap, and system gap?

Preach it brother!!!

The PDF format.

Mordred Pendragon · June 16, 2019, 08:07:05 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1092191Exactly.

If you enjoy OSR games, run them for new players. Some of the players will become Old School devotees and continue on the tradition.

Online wank and spank won't create new players. Rolling dice and having fun will create new players.

This guy gets it.

As usual, Spinachat is dead on the money with this one.

insubordinate polyhedral · June 16, 2019, 11:40:55 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1092191Exactly.

If you enjoy OSR games, run them for new players. Some of the players will become Old School devotees and continue on the tradition.

Online wank and spank won't create new players. Rolling dice and having fun will create new players.

QFT. I'm here at least in part because my first DM said "You kids and your 4E. Forget that. We're playing AD&D like I did when I was a kid!" It was awesome.

estar · June 16, 2019, 12:13:22 PM

Quote from: Razor 007;1092187What will traverse the generation gap, and edition gap, and system gap?

Preach it brother!!!

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Blood Axe · June 16, 2019, 12:22:19 PM

If they want to draw in new/young players there need to be demonstration games and hand outs to grab attention like free quick start rules.
Have to get them interested and then hooked.

GeekyBugle · June 16, 2019, 12:55:28 PM

Quote from: Blood Axe;1092248If they want to draw in new/young players there need to be demonstration games and hand outs to grab attention like free quick start rules.
Have to get them interested and then hooked.

Exactly, go to the nearby park on Saturday or Sunday with some free OSR game printouts, find some newbies (3-4) to play with you (10-16 year olds) a short campaign (2-3 sessions), at the end give them each a copy of the rules. If you're in a poor neighborhood pick a 2d6 or 3d6 ruleset, this way the dice are cheap too.

EOTB · June 16, 2019, 01:49:59 PM

Running games. Just ran 3 days of AD&D at NTRPGCon, with some 1st timers who had a good time.

If a person sees you smoothly running a game that they enjoyed playing in, it crowds all the net people speaking ill of it out of their opinions.

Blood Axe · June 16, 2019, 03:56:33 PM

An easy demo game like Basic D&D from Moldvay or Labyrinth Lord with a few props like a 2-D dungeon set up and some simple card heroes makes a great introduction to gaming. Okumarts makes some great cartoon type Adventurer/Monster sets. Crooked Staff has nice 2-d dungeon tiles you can make too.
Let them keep their card character and give them a quick start rules set-easy to just print something out.

jeff37923 · June 16, 2019, 04:00:18 PM

Quote from: Razor 007;1092187What will traverse the generation gap, and edition gap, and system gap?

Preach it brother!!!

Do not support whatever the current version of D&D Organized Play is. Counter it by running open table public games to demonstrate that the detractors have been pushing a false narrative.

S'mon · June 16, 2019, 05:12:26 PM

Quote from: Razor 007;1092187What will traverse the generation gap, and edition gap, and system gap?

Preach it brother!!!

I just run 5e D&D with topless amazon warrior PCs ...seems to work. :cool:

Spinachcat · June 16, 2019, 06:03:05 PM

Quote from: S'mon;1092289I just run 5e D&D with topless amazon warrior PCs ...seems to work. :cool:

The Power of Boobies compels you!!!

bat · June 16, 2019, 07:10:24 PM

It is great to see some people get it. One of the early aspects of the OSR was TARGA, which formed as a think tank to get people to play these games. This was before all of the retro-clones and re-issues. S&W was gathering steam when TARGA dissipated. But the sentiment is still there: Just play these games. I do. I run them in public with players 18-55. The rules don't matter as long as you deliver a fun game, keep the players interested and they feel appropriately rewarded.