Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Matt and Rob discuss a very good blog post about old-school renaissance games: The OSR Onion (https://dododecahedron.blog/2025/11/22/the-osr-onion/) . We ask important questions like: What is the philosophy of OSR? What kind of games does this philosophy enable? What does 'old' mean? Does anyone read blogs anymore?


Further reading:


Principia Apocrypha (drive.google.com/file/d/1rN5w4-azTq3Kbn0Yvk9nfqQhwQ1R5by1/view) A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (friendorfoe.com/d/Old%20School%20Primer.pdf)


(And many more linked in the blog, check it out!)