tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post7311520119891673221..comments2024-03-01T11:52:44.729-05:00Comments on Bat in the Attic: Once again,the deal with the Old School Renaissance or OSR.Robert Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863009007381185340noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-17160060468947450142014-09-26T20:14:34.868-04:002014-09-26T20:14:34.868-04:00Pundit. Seriously. Just, for like a week, try not ...Pundit. Seriously. Just, for like a week, try not to be such a little bitch. Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05744547048757312772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-81110209015624628582014-09-26T17:18:55.618-04:002014-09-26T17:18:55.618-04:00I think the only way is to ignore the pundit, as u...I think the only way is to ignore the pundit, as usual it seems like it just enjoys being vitriolic and loudmounthed. After a while it just grows tiresome, it leads nowhere and is quite unproductive.<br />Move along citizens, nothing to see here...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-77288678638904627882014-09-26T12:30:01.593-04:002014-09-26T12:30:01.593-04:00I'll repeat my answer to your similar comment ...I'll repeat my answer to your similar comment on my blog, where you admitted "there was a larger renaissance of interest in older games and fans of those games thought the OSR was being unfair and trying to coop the wider movement to mean ONLY classic editions of D&D.":<br /><br />Yeah, see, that's exactly what it feels like to me: like the Clonemaniacs were (and still are) trying to own old-school, to control a movement that doesn't actually belong to them, and act as gatekeepers of what is or is not old-school.<br /><br />Whether they like it or not, in part BECAUSE they went out of their way to insist on it in their takeover attempt, the term "OSR" has come to mean ALL the Old-School Gaming movement. So given that, it makes it seem disingenuous to try to use technicalities to try to erase the non-Clonemaniac stuff from the 'origin story'.<br />They made a play on controlling old-school, it got away from them, and in the process they lost a term they invented when what people associate with it got away from them too. Now they can't go backward and try to say "we take it back, the OSR is just this stuff over here".<br /><br />(I appreciate the shoutout to Arrows of Indra, though)RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.com