What is the NSR?
Strictly speaking, the New School Revolution is school of game design. In spirit, the NSR is a community to be found on Discord at the NSR Cauldron . You can call your game “NSR” whether it follows the strict definition, it was inspired by the NSR community, or both. I. The NSR Strict Rules-light, content-heavy . The bulk of the rulebook consists of GM tools and/or random tables for character creation. The core rules might fit on just a couple pages. Lore-light, flavor-heavy . The setting is not explained, but implied through rules and tables. There is no canonical or correct interpretation of the setting outside of any given table playing the game. Story-light, problem-heavy . The GM decides what happens based on what makes for a consistent world and/or an interesting challenge, not what makes for a good story. Players must be creative and clever to solve weird problems with the weird tools their characters have at their disposal. II. The NSR Spirit The best game is the game you like ...