Regularly, OSR blogs link to or discuss new ideas and material for their OSR games, which is fantastic. The oddness comes in the form of the new ideas and material sometimes being ideas and advances that are already part of 2E and 3E D&D.
One guy made a lengthy discussion of a new OSR way to approach ability checks and reasonably assumed class skills that was little more than the 3E skill system. Someone even noted such in the comments, yet neither the blogger nor any of the other commenters acknowledged it. Today someone linked an OSR spellcaster supplement that sounds like it contains several ideas that I've scanned over in 3E materials.
Obviously, for the OSR to not remain completely inert, it needs new ideas and lively discussion, but for all of the grandstanding and naysaying I see, there's certainly some hypocrisy there.
That said, I've no doubt there is plenty of room for new school ideas to be adapted into an OSR way of doing things. I suppose as long as this material doesn't detract from the imaginative possibilities of the DM or the player, it's OSR friendly.
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