Getting Started with OSR

     The world of OSR is rich and varied, with tons of interesting ideas that drew me and many others to it. Unfortunately, it can be tricky to get into. Google Plus was an old social media platform that seems like it was at the center of the community, but after it got taken down there hasn't been any really central places for OSR.

    I don't claim to be the most knowledgeable person in OSR, in fact I am only a pretty recent discoverer of it, but I do claim to have a different perspective than a lot of the other people in the movement. D&D 5e was the first edition I ever played. I have never played any of the older editions of D&D, and because of that I don't have a lot of the institutionalized knowledge surrounding it. I like to think I pick things up pretty quick, but I really struggled with understanding parts of how OSR games work, because knowledge was sort of assumed.

    Since the fall of Google Plus, the community has fractured a lot and that does newcomers few favors. Everyone who was there, years ago, already knows all the people to follow and the resources to check out. Anyone else? We just have to figure it out. So, I will be figuring it out here. In front of the vast empty void of the internet, in hopes that maybe someone else will find my journey helpful for their own.

    This page is a work in progress, and will continually update with the blog. Any headings without content are topics I plan to cover in a blog-post, summarizing the results under the heading and linking to the post.


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Player Characters


Monsters


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