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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...

I just flat out reject the argument this is the only real way to force companies to do that. If this is really something you're...

I dont mind it being on Beyond - but its literally sorted directly with the 1st party stuff, sandwiched between the Bigby and Eberron...

I really hate that they're freely intermixing random 3pp stuff in with official sources on dndbeyond. It was bad enough when it was...