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On a related to the OP note, considering how perfectly playable the The Strategic Review bard was, the fact the PHB bard was turned into...

All I read here is just jealousy because someone couldn't qualify for Bard Camp.

Clearly you never heard of the famous bard James Brown? That bard had soul, brother...

Degree is a factor, but I can argue that even a local military could have specialized techniques they learned for specific situations...

First, bold to assume all possible factions or cultures are available, or you would gain the features of them. For example, you can...

$150 is already a steep buy in for DMs. You're shooting for $200 plus?

Bold is emphasis. A drow can be a unique cleric of Lolth that has abilities a PC cleric wouldn't have. I have no problem extending that...

Bullocks. I've seen 5e players expend every resource and lose and I've seen AD&D fighters solo dragons. The only time I see OS players...

generally no, because tedium does not require skill in the first place. The OSR focuses too much on tedium for my taste and tries to...

I beg to disagree. At levels 1-4 I will admit that OS PCs are far weaker than their modern counterparts, but come about 5th level OS...

Never really liked her. She felt very tryhard. I didn't mind she was a woman in gamer space or used her sexuality to gain fans, but I...

I find this notion of OS players needing to be creative and clever while modern players just spam widgets to be a bunch of grognards...

I think the "player skill" argument is used too often as too simplistic an explanation for how OSR and Modern D&D differ. First of all...

The issue of course was that the spells were often not placed correctly in relation to class access, creating things like druids losing...

I'm fascinated with this. There is no ability an NPC can have that a PC cannot? No Vistani with the gift of plot device prophecy, no...