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Moreover, the tiny differences that exist don't manifest in OSRIC support material. The stat blocks you would find in a module for OSRIC would be 100% compatible with 1st edition AD&D.

Nothing. I enjoy what I am playing now, and that is that.

As long as the subforum doesn't turn into a ghetto like the RPGNet d20 area - that is, as long as PF discussions of a general relevance go into the general forum - there should be no trouble, and a [PF] tag is both easy and recognisable. Rules-related discussions - there is a good case for...

Genre-crossing not old-school? I beg your pardon: OD&D Vol 2., Monsters&Treasures (1974): mentions "robots, golems and androids" (no stats, though) OD&D Supplement II: Blackmoor (1975): the entire Temple of the Frog module Empire of the Petal Throne (?1976?): science-fiction background, dungeons...

See my post here for a explanation of why I consider I6 old-school.

There is a relation between unethicality and falseness. The nostalgia argument implies false consciousness; an attraction to old games only based on an emotional attachment to a falsified past. While I don't discount that people may feel nostalgic for the games they played when they were in...

Here. (IMO)

I voted for all of them except Dragons of Despair and Beyond the Crystal Cave; the former was omitted because it is a representative of a new story-centric paradigm (some good set-pieces notwithstanding), and the latter because I have never seen it. The two borderline cases are Ravenloft and...

Furthermore, a post on sub-styles: I don't consider old-school a movement either. If anything, it is a cluster of preferences with both positive and negative identifiers (i.e. "old-school is this and that" / "old school is not that"). From the outsider POV, it may seem homogeneous; from the...

Since I just remembered I wrote a looong post about the common memes that come up in old-school discussions in an epic TheRPGSite thread, I might as well copy it here: Looks like this debate has been popping up a lot lately - on TheRPGHaven, on Malcolm Sheppard's blog, on Jonathan Tweet's blog...

Also, a case study on nostalgia: one of my current groups. It is made up of three people as follows: 1) Age 18, only slightly older than the time I have been roleplaying. Very much interested in old-school games, and running his own campaign - I have read his writeups, and they are authentic...

Just to get this out of the way: while I feel nostalgic for a lot of the things I did when I started gaming, I am not playing "old-school" games because I want to recapture that bygone past. I play them because they give me a specific experience that agrees with my preferences. To me, my growing...

Certainly, making a drinking cup out of the DM's skull is right out? :confused: (I certainly hope so.)

No offense, but this "Neutral Evil" advice sounds exactly like "horrible, socially poisonous ideas that may not only destroy the campaign but friendships as well" to me. It was not clear from your post that you were being facetious or sincere. IMHO the sensible options before the OP are a) cope...

And yet despite playing notoriously loose with the rules, I currently run two successful campaigns, one of which has been going with a stable player base for a bit more than two and a half years now; and have suffered no lack of players before. It seems my way is superior to the highway.

Oryan77 speaks the truth. Also: Because RPG rules are not holy writ, and house ruling has been a tradition of roleplaying since day minus ten? I mean, this whole exchange is surreal. :erm: To be frank, if my players gave me that attitude, I would pack up my campaign and either find a new...

This... this was sarcasm, right? Right?! :erm:

It seems to me the DM's mistake is one of not communicating his intentions clearly. Aside from being poor at tactics, his decisions strike me as legitimate: his tweaks on the rules don't seem excessive, and may have been used consciously to a stylistic effect. This should be discussed at the...

It is a good thing D&D is in the hands of brand management that just wuvs gaming and gamers, because let's imagine how things would look like if they didn't. ;) Go Rouseketeers!

And good news it is!