OSRIC

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title: "OSRIC" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dungeons-&-dragons-retro-clones", "fantasy-role-playing-games", "indie-role-playing-games", "open-source-tabletop-games", "role-playing-games-introduced-in-2006"] description: "Role-playing game system" topic_path: "general/dungeons-dragons-retro-clones" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSRIC" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Role-playing game system ::

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Field	Value
title	OSRIC - Old School Reference and Index Compilation
image	File:OSRIC, role-playing game.jpg
caption	Cover of the first edition
designer	Stuart Marshall and Matt Finch
publisher	Knights-n-Knaves, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing
date	original 2006, revised 2013
genre	Tabletop RPG
system	OSR
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|title= OSRIC - Old School Reference and Index Compilation |image= File:OSRIC, role-playing game.jpg |caption= Cover of the first edition |designer= Stuart Marshall and Matt Finch |publisher= Knights-n-Knaves, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing |date= original 2006, revised 2013 |genre= Tabletop RPG |system= OSR

OSRIC, short for Old School Reference and Index Compilation, is a fantasy role-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. 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". 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.

History

The purpose of OSRIC is to provide publishers with a tool to legally produce gaming materials compatible with first edition AD&D. More than 20 different publishers have produced more than 500 products branded as OSRIC-compatible.

The initial version of OSRIC was released in 2006. The OSRIC rules are free to download from the game's site in PDF form.{{cite web | url = http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/download.html | title = Download OSRIC | accessdate = 2008-12-30

OSRIC v. 2.2, was released in 2013.

References

References

1. Shannon Appelcline. (2011). "Designers & Dragons". Mongoose Publishing.
2. "About OSRIC".
3. link. (2011-05-14 , retrieved 14 June 2010.)
4. "OSRIC-Compatible Products".
5. "RPGNet Info on OSRIC".
6. "OSRIC's website".

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