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Of course, but none of that is encapsulated in the term "skilled play." Just because you don't know or don't acknowledge the definition...

You don't just parse the words skill and play. Skilled play is very well known to the people who are fans of it, and they know exactly...

Design philosophy?!? I'm pretty sure there was no prior design philosophy for this kind of thing - just accretions of subsystems. So, I...

Interestingly, this is exactly the opposite of what player skill means in the context of most discussions about it.

I get that you just jumped in without reading the thread and we all do that sometimes, but I politely suggest you read the thread...

It’s just a D&D tradition. Dragons are different in other fiction.

I suspect those things are either there because of legacy (they're a part of DnD's identity, even if it's become vestigial like...

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Good to interact with you again, pemerton! I completely agree that Gygax and Pulsipher are describing the same playing style. There is...

Honestly, your patronizing tone is tiresome. You seem to think you are the only one who knows how the game is meant to be played, and...

The one thing about old school games that is true of all tables is that everyone's table will be different than everyone else's.

Multiple play styles co-existed, and were perceived to co-exist, in the 70s and 80s. In Part I of his series "D&D Campaigns" published...

I think the issue is folks often fall into a "everybody played this way" and they didnt. The skill players I knew, never used published...

Basically, the 'player skill' focused OSR mentality (as popularized by Matt Finch's Primer written in 2008) is a fairly recent...

Above and beyond anything else in the thread, this is a lesson I wholeheartedly embrace and wish more GMs would heed. Doesn't matter...