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Since I’ve been told I’ve been judging Arcane Library’s Shadowdark adventures unfairly, I’m doing a quick read through of “Fortress of...

I don't think I fully understood that until my string of bad sessions. I had a nostalgia for how I played old TSR D&D, but that's not...

Shadowdark sums up the principles of modern OSR really well.

You're conflating bad design and not being financially successful. I don't deny SD's popularity or financial success. However, I do...

The problem is that there's nothing to tell them that they're not following the rules or that they're being bad GMs. Because when you...

I agree. Even Gygax didn't stick to the 3d6 in order. It's been a mess since AD&D, and shouldn't be a standard method, because you end...

I never played 1E, but I played AD&D 2E for close to a decade. As I understand it, the systems are similar mechanically. I don't think...

That’s just general roleplaying? 5e -3 lizard people arguing. I’m not compelled to fight. You can avoid or talk to them etc etc. your...

I've consumed a lot of the OSR media out there. I've read the Alexandrian blog (and Justin Alexander's book). I've read and watched Ben...

I agree with most of what you wrote here, apart from maybe what exactly the chance of failure should be. Many of the replies to the OP...

I had forgotten that it was just five 1st level characters, whereas OD&D parties were often twice that size or even larger. When I...

Combat is a fail state is like saying this game that I wrote rules for is 80% dedicated to the implementation of that fail state. What...

I disagree that OSR play is or should be organized in that way as a central tenet across the board. DCC certainly allows for more of it...

I love all these unwritten rules that people are supposed to magically absorb.

There are whole classes dedicated to combat. A large part of the rules are about fighting or what happens when you fight. This combat...