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I agree. The intent of the 2e PHB even back in the day was to clean up the 1e rules, but leave it in such a way as to ensure backwards...

Combat in 2e is also simplfied to the way many people actually played 1e combat. But most importantly it's organized in a way you can...

And no offense to people who feel otherwise, but I do still stand on the point that the problems with 3e were to a large extent, baked...

The higher levels (13-20) weren't really playable space. Gary Gygax is oft-quoted as saying that 16th level in 1e is the practical...

This was a bit of a toughie. Based on my more unpleasant experiences with 3e and inferring from what I saw as a GM, 3e seems to be good...

My favorite debunking story: In my philosophy class at university, the professor asked everyone in the room who believed in ghosts to...

No, the goal is rarely to kill a monster. The shadowdark (and OSR in general) intention is that the monsters are a danger/challenge to...

This implies Shadowdark is a Hack n Slash, which its absolutely not. In general it sounds like a mix of a) bad/inexperienced DM b) not...

Shadowdark isn't neary as deadly, even at low levels, as some other OSR games. It's not 5E or anything, but it's also not OD&D. Kelsey...

House rules, baby! I used d&d standard array for stats. Full HP at level one. Etc Etc. Shadowdark is great because it's easy to mod

Yeah, that was a weird take.

Thats...not true.

Yeah, it's a rational choice. It does sound like the Lurking Fears people and other con DMs really crapped the bed, though.

Yeah, that is a bad DM implementation. In my Shadowdark campaign, there's been one round of combat in the last two sessions, because the...

So the experienced, and 'professional' DMs all failed to actually run the game.