Why did the OSR go from being all about OD&D to being all about B/X? Was it a shift of demographics from 70s grognards to 80s grognards?
People started selling OSR content and want to avoid the WotC copyright landmine.
>>96962736I don't see how switching from OD&D to B/X would change that.
>>96962707B/X is just better
>>96962707BX is more braindead so it's easier to market to the cattle
>>96962707is the artist the same as the artist of octopath traveler
>>96964031Nope.
>>96964031Akihiko Yoshida versus Mika Iizuka. Similar, but nobody does it like Yoshida.
>>96962707>Why did the OSR go from being all about OD&D to being all about B/X?False premise: it was never all about OD&D.
OD&D is incomplete without chainmail. That's why people bounce off of it, that's why the shift from OD&D to B/X. B/X is nice though, B/X is good...B/X is love.
>>96969482>my autism makes me incapable of not understanding hyperbole
>>96969970So he DOES understand hyperbole?
>>96969976>realise my grammatical error that I made in a migraine induced haze on 4chan.org too late
>>96962707B/X is an edition of OD&D.If you mean that the OSR went from being about LBB to B/X, it didn't. The scene was started by 1e grogs who wanted their trve Gygax-approved 1e. But 1e, though it be leagues simpler than anything WotC has ever belched forth, is still needlessly complex compared to any OD&D.So the OSR, early on (I was there, Gandalf; I was on those forums in '06) switched over to LBB and Holmes and B/X (and BECMI and the Cyclopedia were much more acceptable, as was 2e, back in those days - back before the blogs had ossified their dogma) because they were simpler and easier to develop content for, and hacks of, and genre-bending adaptations of.This isn't a bad thing, mind. B/X is about peak for the right level of complexity in a simple dungeon and hex crawl game that doesn't grasp how a full LBB or 1e campaign is supposed to work. It's perfect for exactly the sort of wrongheaded, small-scale, single-group without factions or 1:1 time affair that OSR nitwits love, where it's all about rulings and lethality and puzzles and survival and there's nothing of substance to the campaign itself.>>96969601The fuck it is. Chainmail is an optional plugin to LBB OD&D, and it doesn't even do fantasy mass combat, you still need Swords & Spells for that.
>>96969601>OD&D is incomplete without chainmailand chainmail is a shit game. B/X for all it's faults is at least complete.
>>96970471> B/X is about peak for the right level of complexity in a simple dungeon and hex crawl game that doesn't grasp how a full LBB or 1e campaign is supposed to work.How a full LBB or 1e campaign is supposed to work?
>>96962707OSR was always only ever a containment larp for aggrieved psuedointellectual faggots who think blaming everything on newer players would allow them to content-farm their way into relevancy without any integrity or creative talent whatsoever. Woke is a problem for ttrpgs in the way a house being on fire is a problem for the house and the OSR is for people who think acknowledging the fire gives them license to dictate how the house is going to be redecorated to fit their seething, meaningless specifications citing a history these games never had after the fire is put out. >OHHH DAKKADAKKA JUST TWEETED AGAIN SO BASED
>>96975258>content farm>in the 2000s pre-social mediaTop kek>anon starts talking about Twitter dramaYou have to go back.
>>96962707OSR has always been BX and BX clones first.
>>96962707>>96965279I hate how Lans Hamilton ended up and I hope Lans Tartare sucks a fat dog dick in hell for it.
>>96970471As optional a plugin as are dice and players :)
