一种在 OSR 基础上发展而来的桌面角色扮演游戏设计风格，用来描述与 OSR 游戏有相近的原则或哲学，但在机制上老式 DnD 并不兼容。
代表作品是：
- Into the Odds
- Troika
- World of Dungeons
- Mothership
- Cairn
最初在一篇博客中提出：New School Revolution – The Bone Box Chant，其中总结了其认为的若干 NSR 特点。后来主要由 Yochai Gal 对 NSR 的概念和社群进行发展。值得注意的是，在这篇 2022 年的博文中，Yochai 试图借 NSR 这一名词的提出摆脱 OSR 社群中存在的右翼影响：
The OSR/Indie TTRPG community is full of bad actors. Identifying and tracking these folks so that they and their followers do not gain an active presence in our communities is pivotal.
Taskland 对此评论道：
Once a series of indirectly-compatible games with a discernible ‘old school’ sensibilities made it successfully across the minefield, NSR games and their creators were re-absorbed into the scene that had once sought to keep them at arms’ length. With the OSR no longer pushing quite so hard, NSR people a) stopped pulling away and b) went very quiet about the need to keep policing their social boundaries.
By the time Yochai Gal was getting hounded off of Bluesky for sharing a link to someone with truly depressing politics, the distinction between NSR and OSR was nothing but a historical footnote: If you were engaged with the NSR, you were engaged with the OSR… No daylight, kids.