tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656359567715416766.post7190500358432979652..comments2023-12-28T05:31:17.075-06:00Comments on Carto Cacography: Evolution of the OSRNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14531253485041961783noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656359567715416766.post-78183114628890809062010-02-22T12:57:45.040-06:002010-02-22T12:57:45.040-06:00That's an interesting point, and not one that ...That's an interesting point, and not one that I've considered before. Although I can't (or perhaps choose not to) believe that people would have maligned them before their deaths only to re-examine their games after. But perhaps...Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14531253485041961783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656359567715416766.post-18317834895210507202010-02-19T07:40:49.829-06:002010-02-19T07:40:49.829-06:00Nice synopsis.
Personally I'd say one of th...Nice synopsis. <br /><br />Personally I'd say one of the biggest things to drive the OSR has been the deaths of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. I remember EGG being maligned well into the 1990s. Someone at my gaming club in college in the early 1990s repeated the legend that EGG was coke head (!?) and so on, people denigrated AD&D (esp. the tables in the DMG!) and everything from the 70s & 80s, and there was, IMO, a sort of nihilism in the gaming industry. Then EGG died, and a bit later Arneson, and I think some of us older gamers kind of took stock. "What have we done?" There was certainly some renewal of interest in the old school while EGG & DA were still around, and thank Dog for the Dragonsfoot & other forums Q&As with EGG.<br /><br />That and 4e, which took the game in a different direction, while still paying a certain respect for the earlier editions with the re-releases of "classic" modules and reintroduction of certain old D&D tropes, were a kind of perfect storm.<br /><br />It's too bad so much of the OSR's time was wasted explaining what was "wrong" with 4e, but I suppose that even that is not a total waste, it did help elucidate what was "right" about OD&D and all that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com