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I don't make assumptions about the system's intentions. I take one that's close and make it more like what I want (generally, more sim...

Those are two separate issues though. The fiction can need it in a non-simulationist game (indeed I'd argue Shadowdark is primarily...

If we're talking 1e/2e, getting a henchman, hireling, other NPC cleric to join was fairly easy. Let the DM be the healbot. ;)

Agreed. And I had one DM who was like that as well, though he tended more towards uber weapons. With him I saw -1 to -5 fairly often...

Unless simulationist thinking is fun for you and you believe the fiction needs it. The two can go hand in hand.

My favorite OSR specifically removes darkvision and the like from PC species, but leaves it for the monsters. Light is everyone's...

My players like physical reference works at the table (so do I, in fact), so I often buy real books for things meant to used in actual...

However, management is one way you get to that narratively (in)convenient point in a game setting. Yes your DM can also fiat that...

I will readily accept "the long 80's" as an aesthetic era from spanning from circa 1977 to 2001, it's assumptions shattered by the dot...

Hence, pdf for me nine times out of ten.

I think the point is, you can't expect high quality art, paper and covers and then expect game books to not be relatively pricey. And...

Yup IMO none of that is necessary, or even desirable in some cases.

one the biggest things that I feel is driving at least the perception of excessive prices is how pretty and glossy and full of expensive...

I would say it is their problem, not yours. In fact, it is the challenge all the streamers face: to provide enough engaging content (at...

WotC (and TSR before them) got money from me every time they released a book with a strong focus on gods, religions and planar stuff...