What is the OSR

Posted this first on substack because my wife has been active there, trying to support her(she is @sarahsoloadventures, and I am @wagalade). 

What is the OSR? The perennial question asked alike by navel-gazing grognards and perplexed youngsters in our gaming hobby. And by my wife @Sarah Blount. So in an effort to confuse her even further I'm giving a small (if you saw my full list of bookmarks you'd agree this is a small number too) collection of posts others have made about the OSR, both lambasting it, praising it, trying to explain it, and even going over the long(where has the time gone?) history of this niche subset of our niche hobby:

https://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2014/10/osr-defined.html

https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/08/where-hell-old-school-renaissance-come.html

https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2014/09/once-againthe-deal-with-old-school.html

https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2025/10/what-is-point-of-osr.html

https://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/2010/07/from-desktop-my-final-stance-on-osr.html

https://www.greyhawkgrognard.com/2019/06/02/the-osr-has-no-gatekeepers/

https://web.archive.org/web/20201109033331/https://hexed.press/2018/01/25/o-s-r/

https://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-osr-as-d-stuckists.html

https://pitsperilous.blogspot.com/2020/03/nostalgia-ok-osr-boomer.html

https://harbingergames.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-i-remember-rant-about-old-school.html

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-i.html

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-ii.html

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-iii.html

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-iv.html

https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-historical-look-at-osr-part-v.html

Brightnight Academy

 My wife, Sarah, has been publishing some solo RPGs lately. You can find her work on itch and DriveThruRPG. She has been commissioning cover art for her books, and her next project, Brightnight Academy, she is also commissioning interior art. Brightnight Academy is a school for training Revenants, who are basically like scouts or rangers that protect the civilization in a kinda points of light setting. The Academy gives both magic and martial training, and is kinda inspired by a mix of Harry Potter, Monster High, and Ironsworn. So because the entire game takes place at the school and and is about taking classes, and doing activities at the school, and building social circles, Sarah wanted a map to go in her book, and well since that's what I do for a living, here is the map of Brightnight Academy for the soon to be published RPG(she's just waiting on the cover)