{"id":1397621,"date":"2025-11-19T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:53:26","slug":"inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by a long running fan joke, Sailing makes port in Old School RuneScape as its first unique skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/runescape\">RuneScape<\/a> community as a whole the release of Sailing marks the day a meme, a myth, a legend becomes reality. For Old School RuneScape &#8211; the retro spin off MMO of RuneScape 3 based off of an 07 backup &#8211; it marks the arrival of its first ever new, exclusive, Skill. It&#8217;s quite the regatta after the past proposed Skills, like Warding and iconically the first version of Sailing ten years ago, failed to pass the player polls. Now, however, the anchors are hoisted and the sails are set as Sailing voyages into OSR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/inspired-by-a-long-running-fan-joke-sailing-makes-port-in-old-school-runescape-as-its-first-unique-skill\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the RuneScape community as a whole the release of Sailing marks the day a meme, a myth, a legend becomes reality. For Old School RuneScape &#8211; the retro spin off MMO of RuneScape 3 based off of an 07 backup &#8211; it marks the arrival of its first ever new, exclusive, Skill. It&#8217;s quite the regatta after the past proposed Skills, like Warding and iconically the first version of Sailing ten years ago, failed to pass the player polls. Now, however, the anchors are hoisted and the sails are set as Sailing voyages into OSR. 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