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I can only speak for myself (naturally!), but I read a comment on Reddit a few years back that summarized my feelings about OSR vs 5e (for example): "what was once narrative is now mechanical." In other words, having been playing these game for a very long time, I prefer a lighter rules system...

I'm if'y on skirts in general, if I'm being honest. The Tholians wear a lot of skirts, but they are kind of crinkly and difficult to keep ironed. That's why in ST:TOS they only show them from the waist up. I bet you didn't know that.

I'm complaining about skirts. Do you think I want to shave my legs in winter? I don't. Imagine how much worse it is for a Klingon.

People cried a lot in Discovery. A lot of crying. Spock only cried once. Once! Also: Klingons don't wear skirts. Ever. I have no words for that. Wordless.

That ending made me all verklempt. I have been playing with the same morons people since sixth grade (45 years). That got me right in the feels. 😭

Advanced. I just finished reading through the Advanced Players' Book.

THACO, man. That takes me way back.

I am reading through the rule books right now, and setting it up on foundry.

I am flabbergasted by how different a 5e character is compared to an Advance OSE character. Holy smokes, I had forgotten how hard AD&D is. This is even more challenging than Castles&Crusades (re: player power).

We played it back in the olden days, but sort of mashed up together with D&D 1e and AD&D. Right now I am just reading the rule books and trying to figure out how to use Forge after spending the last six years on Roll20.

Got the books, have it set up on Foundry/Forge. Any advice, thoughts, suggestions, reviews? It looks great!

I grew up on TSR modules: two columns per page of 10 point font with the occasional picture. 1st and 2nd edition Call of Cthulhu was even harder. Read, re-read, underline, highlight, take notes, photocopy the maps (which was difficult to do back in the 80s. Someone's parent had to take the...

Seems like good energy, and a real add to the community. Welcome, foo3234!

In general, I think the anonymity of these spaces allows--maybe even encourages, somehow--people to be deeply uncivil to one and other. It's like people give in to their ids (to use the old Freudian term) and vent their darkest social impulses into the ether. So much of it reads like actual...