User:ACodispo/Old School Revival article improvement

For saving notes and resources about improving Old School Revival.

Todo List

• sort the sources below by date
• review sources for reliability

WP guidelines & policies to be aware of

• WP:The perfect article
• WP:Reliable sources
  • WP:Identifying and using primary sources -- on using primary sources
    • Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary
    • WP:SELFSOURCE
• WP:Copying within Wikipedia

Templates:

• Template:Better source ({{Better source needed}})
• {{Primary sources|date=June 2021}}

Possible Sources for Citations

Recent articles about OSR:

• https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-i.html
  • "Swan's review of WG5 (Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure) in Space Gamer #73 is a much deeper exploration of his thoughts on how tired old-school D&D had become for him, but his review is written with the sense that this feeling is a much wider one. "As roleplaying becomes more sophisticated, those early days of Dungeons & Dragons seem long ago indeed. The once-fascinating attraction of assuming the identity of a mighty warrior or magician purely to explore a creature-filled dungeon in search of treasure now seems hopelessly quaint to today's experienced roleplayer. I'd venture a guess that Gary Gygax's cheerful admission in the preface ... that 'this is what is generally termed a hack-and-slash' module will send many roleplayers running for the hills." In the same issue, Swan gave a glowing review of DL2 (Dragons of Despair), despite noting that it was "tightly scripted" and "not particularly flexible"."
• https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/osr-rpgs-modern-roleplaying
• https://screenrant.com/best-old-school-tabletop-rpgs-osr-genre-dnd/
• https://www.wired.com/2009/07/a-quick-primer-for-old-school-gaming/
  • "Finch writes a concise and illuminating treatise on the benefits and drawbacks to the different styles of gaming. He offers a number of humorous scripts as comparison between the old and new camps and presents his four "Zen Moments" where original RPGs differ most drastically from their modern counterparts."

Other possible sources:

• https://www.necropraxis.com/2018/12/09/osr-survey-participation/

Sources that are at best primary sources:

• Dragonsfoot search for "old school renaissance" (earliest use 2005-06-25)
  • second use of the term "old school renaissance" on Dragonsfoot
• search dragonsfoot for "old school revival" (earliest reference 2004-08-11)
  • "If the 'old-school revival' continues to pick up steam and the current game continues to flounder (if, say, Eberron flops and/or the collectible minis game dries up) sooner or later some bean-counter at Hasbro who doesn't have an emotional attachment to the current edition is going to realize that there's a demand (i.e. money to be made) for 'collector's editions' of the classic games (OD&D, AD&D, B/X D&D) and we'll see them back on the shelves in some form or another."

Places to mine for sources:

• https://odd74.proboards.com/post/243227/thread -- collection of links

Sources we probably can't/shouldn't use:

• https://multiverse.world/blog/2018/07/02/what-is-the-osr-old-school-revival/ -- not a reliable source, just a blog

Drafts

History

• need a section of Google Plus

Effects on the Industry

• re-publishing of DnD classics materials by WotC This was put into History section
• use of "OSR" as informal branding on drivethru and elsewhere