r/osr↗
the roots of the rpg hobby
This is a subreddit for news and discussion of Old School Renaissance topics. We primarily focus on D&D (LBB, 1st ed. AD&D, etc.) and the retroclones. Other Old School games (Traveller, Runequest, Tunnels & Trolls, et al) are of course open for discussion. This is *not* a place to rant about how (your least favorite edition) sucks! In fact, I hope discussion arises about how later editions do things right, and how to incorporate them into OSR-styled games.
72k subscribers556 posts / mo in Sep 2026380 authors / mosince 2011
r/osr has 72k members (+37% over the last 12 months). It gets about 556 posts a month from 380 people. Top topics: OSR Games & Rules, Tabletop RPG Kickstarters and RPG Zines.
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- OSR Games & Rules11%
- Tabletop RPG Kickstarters3.6%
- RPG Zines3.2%
- Hex Maps and Crawl2.3%
- Adventure Modules2.3%
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- Substack
- Necrotic Gnome
- BackerKit
- tenfootpole
- Roll20
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