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"perception" in Old school games is essentially the Search action - spend 10 minutes searching at most a 10x10 square, with a 17% chance...

I really don’t know how to work around the Perception issue. If you accept that skills existed in OSR just in an X-in-6 or percentile...

This comment might shed some light on the debates raging in a couple of other threads about "playing your attributes". OSR has a "Cops...

The PCs in 5e also get exploration-negating spells/skills at a fairly low level that make the challenges of wilderness exploration moot...

I mean, it sounds like two slightly different versions of the same story. WotC wanted to make a 50th anniversary adventure that featured...

Yeah, this is pretty much my answer, too. The specific features I like, such as fewer character options, lightweight or non-existent...

You are asking about the early game and what went wrong. Adding skills was exactly that. That is a different argument than "skills are a...

Well, there's a reason BX has dominated OSR projects rather than AD&D. That said, there is complexity and then there is complexity...

People typically are referring to OD&D and the Basic series when they say Old School was simpler, not AD&D and definitely not AD&D...

Are you seeing a different Old School than I am? I thought it was about armor classes that required understanding negative numbers and...

I ran the premade module in it to decent success. Trying to use the campaign tools was frustrating and I ultimately gave up and pivoted...

LL usually has the book pretty close to done before crowdfunding it. The KS's I've been on have all delivered quickly.

The art, design, and ideas in LL's stuff is really really good. They're very fun to read or flip through. They tend to lack...

One of my favorite pieces I can remember from the 5e run. Way over the top, as Spelljammer should be.

This highlights so much of the differences. Both look complicated, but PF2 executes so much more easily.