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Actual Old School, however, is VERY adjacent to DH... just delete the metacurrencies. The OSR isn't actually all that reflective of the...

This makes me want to 3D print some compensatory prizes to hand to people who die in my Shadowdark game....

Years ago I was DMing for two young nephews, and when one of them (9 y.o. at the time) was disappointed about failing a climbing check...

Sounds like a pretty clear cut case with legal presedent datting back to the landmark 1831 Supreme Court Case of F. Keepers v. L. Weepers.

By that logic, you don't lose in your bowling league, because you get to play next week no matter what happens this week. "So long as...

You almost got there. You win, as a player, by having your character achieve their goal/s--this can be kinda fractal, goals can be...

Is attrition based play possible in Daggerheart? Of course. You have short rests and long rests. Long rests need to be taken at home and...

Really? I would say 5E reaches far above that. Assuming you put your highest stat as your primary, and increase that from time to...

The only real difference is mindset. The actual characters at the table may well be identical, mechanically - they'll just be played...

I know you're not disagreeing, but I've definitely seen the other though; when we started playing D&D 4e, my wife wanted to build an...

I am very sorry if it came across as disruptive, but I think the term optimization is exactly unclear, maybe I am not in the RPG scene...

Yeah absolutely. This idea that optimized PCs and good roleplaying are somehow in opposition to each other is, frankly, not only...

I'm not disagreeing, here, but I've come to the conclusion that often when people say something on the lines of "the players have...

Yeah I've done that: built very effective one-trick pony characters that eventually bored me.

Though I'll note there are kind of hardcore gamists groups where its not only accepted, its expected (of course usually in those the...