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My experience so far is that it delivers much the same experience as Basic and AD&D back in the day, with fewer house rules or much less...

TTRPG books are massively undervalued. The profit margins are non-existent, and creators get paid less than minimum wage for a book...

You don’t tend to see that kind of design (room after room of goblins) in OSR game design anymore - mostly older adventures. Also...

Yes, it's a lot of fun.

If SD is a niche, its a pretty big one, considering the kickstarter numbers and the con game numbers it has. It's not going to appeal...

I imagine a lot of people who say "we didnt play that way!" tended to do the latter.

Yup. Back in the day the lethal consequences of the mechanics were that you had to do SOMETHING if you didn't want to die all the...

Sure, I agree with all that. It's fairly obvious that the OSR principles written up in the '00s and '10s were codifying a prevalent...

The principles of the OSR as written by Ben Milton, et al are new, sure. The mechanics that lead to those principles are not. All the...

As someone who played that way back in the 1980s, that's a bit of modern mythology. While it's true that some groups did not play this...

There is ample guidance in the shadowdark rulebook to explain the playstyle in the GMing chapter.

Of course the rules are 80% about that fail state, because that is when your characters die. You want to have precise rules here. The...

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

1) Magic is supposed to be unreliable. 2) Your characters are supposed to be average or even a bit weak. You're supposed to feel...