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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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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".
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is to provide publishers with a tool to legally produce gaming materials compatible with first edition
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v. 2.0 was released in 2008. In June 2009, hard copy versions of the rules became available from the
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3rd edition to create a new presentation of the first edition rule set.
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The initial version of OSRIC was released in 2006. The
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Designers
Matt Finch
fantasy
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons retro-clones
Open Gaming License
System Reference Document
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Lulu
ISBN
978-1-907702-58-7
"About OSRIC"
Yourgamesnow.com
Archived
Wayback Machine
"OSRIC-Compatible Products"
"Download OSRIC"
"RPGNet Info on OSRIC"
"OSRIC's website"
OSRIC site
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Adventurers League
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