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Old-School Essentials is a retroclone [2] that does not try to change the spirit of the original B/X rules but does try to make the rules easier to read. [1] The first five Old-School Essentials books — Core Rules , Genre Rules , Cleric and Magic-User Spells , Monsters , and Treasures — re-organize all of the original rules into a much more ...
The terms "old school revival" and "old school renaissance" were first used on the Dragonsfoot forum as early as 2004 [5] and 2005, [6] [7] respectively, to refer to a growing interest in older editions of Dungeons and Dragons and games inspired by those older editions.
Matthew Finch is a role-playing game designer associated with the Old School Renaissance movement. [2] Finch wrote the Swords and Wizardry Complete Rulebook, OSRIC, and other works, and is the founder of Mythmere Games. He maintains a YouTube channel, Matt Finch RPG Studio, where he talks about and plays retro games such as OSR and D&D.
OSRIC, short for Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a recreation of the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and one of the most successful retro-clones. [1]: 366 The first version of OSRIC was released in 2006. The latest version, OSRIC v. 2.2, was released in 2013. [2]
OSRIC v. 2.0 was released in 2008. [6] In June 2009, hard copy versions of the rules became available from the Lulu print-on-demand service. Additionally, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing together released a deluxe hard-bound print version with extra art and indices not appearing in other editions.
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Engraving of Manuel Chrysoloras (1862) Chrysoloras was born in Constantinople, at the time capital of the Byzantine Empire, to a distinguished Greek Orthodox family. In 1390, he led an embassy sent to the Republic of Venice by the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos to ask the aid of the Christian princes of Medieval Europe against the invasions of the Byzantine Empire by the Muslim ...