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Table Variance is a feature of OSR games. There aren't rules to "protect" players from bad referees - a referee must play fair...

Yea, but those are actual old-school retro games, not principled OSR style games. Those are two different categories.

Of course there are classes dedicated to combat. You need them because combat as a fail state does not mean you can completely avoid it...

The options are not presented as options, that is what I mean. You get monsters in a specific environment, often in a specific...

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...

Random thought: when I’m playing or GMing a new game, one of the first things I do is look for some actual plays online to get a feel...

As I said upthread, it doesn't sound to me like Shadowdark is the system you want. Sure, it sounds like you had some GMs who totally...

Thats...not true.

Honestly, if that were my experience, I absolutely could (and would) judge the system based on that. This wasn't simply a one and done -...

Nothing wrong with that. When I sat down and finally looked at the 5e math I realized it's way to easy for what I find acceptable.

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

If this is how your GMs are running SD, no wonder you had a frustrating time. Kelsey wrote great advice for running the game in the...

It's vital that SD not be played like 5e or even 2e. Danger should be telegraphed so players can make informed choices. Combat will...

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...

Hmm. This mostly sounds like bad DMs (why on earth would you just go through dungeon rooms in numerical order?) along with general...