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I have no issue with that. In the end, all I'm saying is sometimes you just want to lob the head off a damn orc. Shadowdark does let you...

Yeah, again, I think that idea has been both exaggerated and misconstrued. Of course combat is a huge part of OSR. It's just that the...

Gus' article is fantastic, and is an amazing counterpoint to the idea that these maxims are written in stone and clearly define what is...

Sorry to hear that none of your DMs knew how to make it work. :/ 1. That perfectly cromulent house rule does fix this issue, though...

Foul rules are about what is an allowed or disallowed thing to do in the game. That is not the same thing. So in order to play...

I finished reading Williams' Hardwired. Third time reading it, and I think its influence was even greater than I originally thought...

No, I'm saying that I get that the rules don't cover all situations of the game to allow creativity, but the game rules do cover combat...

Two other observations: Sometimes I think that advocates for Shadowdark, or OSR/NuSR in general, exaggerate the avoidance of combat...

Which I'm fine with as a free-form exercise, but the game is also about combat. That's what the rules define.

But the point buy approach was so wildly different from anything that had really come before that I can't equate it to anything previous...

Oh...oh that was just delightful.

I think the categories are highly, highly blurry.

2e Skills and Powers IMO was a really different, fun early attempt at creating flexible characters and I think they needed to fail at...

I don't feel like combat is a failed state at all in Shadowdark, but it's definitely not the random blunder into a room and roll for...