Posts Tagged ‘britishness’
A British OSR?
There’s a lot of quality talk going on about the British gaming tradition; the things that influenced it, the way it developed, and the ways in which it’s different from what I shall hesitantly call the American tradition, the default setting of the Old School Roleplaying blogs.
Coopdevil covers the cultural influences very nicely; Chris does the differences; a whole bunch of Old-Schoolers explain their entry routes; and here’s an old post from the RPG Pundit which indicates something I have sneakily felt for quite some time, with ref: preoccupations with the games of one’s youth overtaking innovation with the games of today. I started following the OSR blogs because Dungeons and Dragons is something new to me and they are good sources of inspiration and thought-food; my OSR has always been about getting back to the way I used to play rather than what I used to play; this turn toward the British OSR is nostalgia for the things that I am in a position to be nostalgic about.
Read and Respond: Casual Bryssling of a Ruthless Mind on Britishness
Master Bryss, one of the new lads on the House of Paincakes blogrolls, has said some words on Britishness (and Vect, but he’s not what we’re on about here), particularly the British reputation as hoarding single armies, playing slow games, liking Apocalypse and being generally odd.
