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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.
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 ...
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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]
Subsequently, the loose leaf formatting was abandoned and the Compendium as a core book was replaced by single-volume hardcover Monstrous Manual in 1993, collecting popular monsters from the Compendium. The edition also greatly increases the power of dragons, in order to counter the impression of relative weakness of the game's titular monster.
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