One of these is The Fantasy Trip, published by Metagaming Concepts in 1980. Some are new, like Forbidden Lands – Raiders & Rogues in a Cursed World and Classic Fantasy: Dungeoneering Adventures, d100 Style!, but others are almost as old as Dungeons & Dragons. Yet there are other roleplaying games which draw upon the roleplaying games of the 1970s, part of the Old School Renaissance, but which may not necessarily draw directly upon Dungeons & Dragons. Other publishers have been around long enough for them to publish new editions of their games which originally appeared in the first few years of the hobby, whilst still others are taking their new, more contemporary games and mapping them onto the retroclone. Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game, published by Goodman Games is a perfect example of this. Just as with the Indie Game movement before it began as an amateur endeavour, so did the Old School Renaissance, and just as with the Indie Game movement before it, many of the aspects of the Old School Renaissance are being adopted by mainstream roleplaying publishers who go on to publish retroclones of their own.
This explains the popularity of the Old School Renaissance and the many retroclones-roleplaying games which seek to emulate the mechanics and play style of previous editions Dungeons & Dragons-which that movement has spawned in the last fifteen years. It remains the most popular roleplaying game some forty or more years since it was first published, and it is a design and a set-up which for many was their first experience of roleplaying-and one to which they return again and again. It is impossible to ignore the influence of Dungeons & Dragons and the effect that its imprint has had on the gaming hobby.
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