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I started a new thread about "player skill" FYI.

Spinning this out of the 6E thread because, well it isn't about 6E. Anyway -- much is often made of "player skill" and "OSR" and how...

Are you suggesting that people actively made suboptimal choices in order to preserve the "player skill" aspect of the game? I find that...

I never read the comics, but this should be a fun, bloody diversion.

I think it is almost always overstated. I mean, you could detect a secret door by simply walking past it in 1E if you were an elf.

I think error is worrying about the particulars. I use it in a general sense. I do not believe every old schooler or even every OSR game...

I don't think of "player skill" being particularly focused around paranoia (although that can be a feature). It is more about using your...

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...

For what it’s worth I rated 2024e as a 6. Id have rated 2014e as a 7.

In a vacuum I might give it a 7 or an 8. I love Fifth Edition Classic, and New 5e is just a version of it which set out to be a little...

The game designers don't even get spells right. This idea that somehow an arcane spell is sacrosanct (irony!) the moment it appears in...

Yes! Make it weird, make it crazy! Plants, cyborgs, mutant laser-beam-eye fish with bat wings, yes, all of it. I would prefer it be a...

The only thing that I would push back against here is that "cozy" lacks stakes. The stakes in cozy games tend to be smaller and...

Firefly and BG both have been adapted.