OSRIC, short for Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a fantasyrole-playing game system. It is a remake of the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D), and one of the most successful Dungeons & Dragons retro-clones.[1]: 366 OSRIC describes itself as "a compilation of rules for old school-style fantasy gaming...intended to reproduce underlying rules used in the late 1970s to early 1980s".[2]OSRIC uses the Open Gaming License and the System Reference Document of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition to create a new presentation of the first edition rule set.
OSRIC - Old School Reference and Index Compilation
Knights-n-Knaves, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing
Publication
original 2006, revised 2013
Genres
Tabletop RPG
Systems
OSR
HistoryEdit
The purpose of OSRIC is to provide publishers with a tool to legally produce gaming materials compatible with first edition AD&D.[3] More than 20 different publishers have produced more than 500 products branded as OSRIC-compatible.[4]
The initial version of OSRIC was released in 2006. The OSRIC rules are free to download from the game's site in PDF form.[5]OSRIC v. 2.0 was released in 2008.[6] In June 2009, hard copy versions of the rules became available from the Lulu print-on-demand service. Additionally, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing together released a deluxe hard-bound print version with extra art and indices not appearing in other editions.
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