Hello! New to pbp and RPG

welcome

Hi Matt I fairly new to this platform as well. I am 43 and love osr I am right there with you. You probably know but many of the old books are available online and there are some really good osr clones out their Labrynith Lord and Swords & Wizardry come to mind

Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome and all of the good information!

bowlofspinach - Thanks for all the info and links, I will dig into all of that, and probably try out that beginners game!
Thanks, I definitely will!
Cool! I haven't checked out those two specifically (though I've been looking at the White Box book, which I think is based on S&W?), but I have been looking at Basic Fantasy RPG, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and OSE. OSR seems pretty streamlined and rules light, which is appealing.

Thanks, everyone!

There are a couple of "White Box" games. Both are rooted in Swords & Wizardry, and are meant to represent / model the earliest play of D&D -- "OD&D," the 1974 materials without a ton of the add-ons and articles and such that fleshed the game out in the 70s on the run up to 1979 when the various AD&D books were published.

So White Box itself is a trimmed-down version of S&W that Matt Finch put out... then there's the more polished and cleaned up version that Charlie Mason later published: White Box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. I dig Mason's version a lot, though I think the real OSR gems aren't retroclones, but games inspired by those early systems. IMHO, of course.

Good info! Thank you! The Charlie Mason version of WB is what I've looked at, interesting to get a perspective on that.