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  • worth a listen: The OSR Should Die, by Marcia B, read by Nick LS Whelan

    From lkh@lkh@dwalin.uucp to rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc on Sat May 3 12:21:09 2025
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    On "Blogs on Tape" Nick Whelan reads interesting blog posts.

    This one, *The OSR Should Die* by Marcia B. gives a good overview of the OSR.

    https://blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/04/21/episode-135-the-osr-should-die-by-marcia-b/
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  • From Kyonshi@gmkeros@gmail.com to rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc on Mon May 5 09:52:29 2025
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    On 5/3/2025 12:21 PM, lkh wrote:
    On "Blogs on Tape" Nick Whelan reads interesting blog posts.

    This one, *The OSR Should Die* by Marcia B. gives a good overview of the OSR.

    https://blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/04/21/episode-135-the-osr-should-die-by-marcia-b/


    I don't quite get the blogs on tape thing. I find it much easier to just
    click through to the original article.

    anyway: I like Marcia, but she definitely likes to stir the pot. Not
    sure if it isn't needed sometimes. She likes putting out well-argued
    criticism of DnD in just such a way it's gonna cause umbrage.
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  • From Zekromaster@zekromaster@notputtingmymailhere.invalid to rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc on Mon May 5 15:39:45 2025
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    On 05/05/25 09:52, Kyonshi wrote:
    I don't quite get the blogs on tape thing. I find it much easier to
    just click through to the original article.

    I used to listen to it during my commute at one point, and I assume many
    do something similar. It's not really meant to supersede the written
    version for most people.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to rec.games.frp.dnd on Mon May 5 10:52:14 2025
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    On Mon, 5 May 2025 09:52:29 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/3/2025 12:21 PM, lkh wrote:
    On "Blogs on Tape" Nick Whelan reads interesting blog posts.

    This one, *The OSR Should Die* by Marcia B. gives a good overview of the OSR.

    https://blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/04/21/episode-135-the-osr-should-die-by-marcia-b/


    https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-osr-should-die.html
    for those who want the text version

    I don't quite get the blogs on tape thing. I find it much easier to just >click through to the original article.

    anyway: I like Marcia, but she definitely likes to stir the pot. Not
    sure if it isn't needed sometimes. She likes putting out well-argued >criticism of DnD in just such a way it's gonna cause umbrage.

    Honestly, the whole article smacks of... I dunno, navel gazing. It's
    not so much that its inaccurate as that it comes up with an idea and
    then just goes so deeply into itself that it almost creates a
    completely new reality around that idea. God knows I've fallen into
    that trap myself. You just keep writing and writing and you almost
    become trapped by what you've already said so have to argue some more.

    I mourn the loss of good editors who'd --were this written in a
    magazine or something-- take content like that and chop out three
    quarters of it and tell the author to a) get to the fucking point, and
    b) stop huffing their own farts.

    But I can't present any counter arguments to the blog because I've
    never really delved too deeply into OSR material or the so-called "OSR movement" she supposes. I grab from all content --OSR or otherwise--
    and make it work for me. (my games would probably be considered "OSR"
    but I've never considered them that. We use old edition rules just
    because it's what we know and don't see any real advantage to
    upgrading). So I can't really say if there's any bigger mission
    statement to OSR than that.



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