Swords
& Wizardry appreciation day has just passed. Along with Labyrinth
Lord I think Swords & Wizardry gets the most retro-clone love.
There has been a Basic Fantasy RPG appreciation day, and I am a big
fan of BFRPG myself; I own in print everything they offer.
But
wasn't OSRIC the first retro-clone? Why doesn't it have a special
day? If it does, I have never heard of it. OSRIC emulates 1st
edition AD&D, and that's what me and most of my friends were
playing back in the day (mostly, there was some bleed through from
other editions).
To
be honest, I forget that OSRIC exists a lot. Part of my retro-clone
addiction is finding the editions that I didn't play (OD&D) or
only played a bit (Holmes, B/X). I still have all of my 1st
edition AD&D books, so I guess OSRIC wasn't a priority to me, it
was only as I was putting together a list to catalog all of my
retro-clone purchases and rounding them up to keep them together that
I realized I didn't actually have a hard copy of OSRIC. I have since
rectified this- I ordered a copy from Noble Knight Games, it'll be
here probably on Monday.
So
why no OSRIC love from the OSR community at large?
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