Voros
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It's worth mentioning that Mothership doesn't tag itself as OSR on DriveThru. When I played it, the game it most reminded me of was Unknown Armies.
For sure, I don't think the designers think of themselves as OSR either but I know some in OSR circles were twisting themselves into pretzels trying to claim it was 'OSR' as I think they were just embarrassed to find a game they liked outside of their circle so due to tribalism it had to be 'OSR.' As you noted Into the Odd causes similar issues I think.
When I see OSR types running into the same-old walls with D&D and starting to propose different systems for initiative, AC, HP or magic and other fairly core systems in D&D I just wonder why they can't bite the bullet and move to other or *gasp* new systems (that they could make as well). But there are those who advocate using D&D as the core system 'because everyone knows it.' Which I don't find a particularly convincing argument, in fact it suggests that they are reliant on their uncool Dad, 5e D&D, to actually recruit new players.
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