I& #39;ve been thinking lots about this response I got. I think the person deleted this tweet so I cropped them out but I still want to talk about it.

Also I covered my old pfp because I& #39;m feeling a bit paranoid lately and don& #39;t want my face on this account right now, bear with me https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat">

Personally I don& #39;t believe the OSR is inherently toxic, but it is very hard for me to earnestly be excited about it with non-OSR friends when apparently being a marginalized person who is opinionated and stands their ground in online discussions is comparable to being a troll.

I think a lot of people in the OSR have a bad habit of refusing to define/codify/agree on what the OSR is (or what they want it to be), i.e. saying OSR games aren& #39;t defined by mechanics, and then getting mad when people like me tweet stuff like "Maybe not every game needs HP."

What this means is that often the OSR can feel invite-only. "Of course you don& #39;t know what the OSR is; you haven& #39;t been here long enough, you haven& #39;t played enough, you can& #39;t figure out what the OSR is just from reading games because the OSR is what happens at the table."

Which tables are OSR enough? If the OSR is what happens at the table, then how come the way I play and design games can& #39;t be OSR? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"If it& #39;s not compatible with old school modules it& #39;s not OSR," so, again: if I run a pointcrawl as a Fall of Magic game, is that OSR?

This thread is unraveling a bit, but: I think there& #39;s value in saying "These things are core to the OSR and if you remove them it& #39;s not OSR anymore." But what I want people to acknowledge is that, if you do codify what "OSR" means, it is mostly arbitrary. Be intentional.

And lastly: I think it& #39;s very troublesome to dismiss a young, emerging marginalized game designer as a troll, even if they are being provocative, and to tell your followers to block them. Some people need to realize that it isn& #39;t enough to just not be outwardly bigoted.

I& #39;m not going onto other people& #39;s threads and constantly spamming them about how badly they& #39;re doing OSR. This is my twitter. If you don& #39;t like what I post, nobody is forcing you to look at it.