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This seems like a question for my DM, not me. The only reasons I can give is that is how we like to play? I don’t see anything in the rules of 5e for the players that hinder this style of play. Maybe what you’re talking about is in the DMG?

Not a DM so I don’t know how you encourage that type of play, but I know as anold school player that plays 5e, it helps to play with people who’ll already play that way. Our group has always played the one OSR style and continued to do so in 4e and 5e.

Well that is 100% how my DM runs 5e and we: Avoid combat If we can’t do #1 we prepare / plan as needed to make the combat advantages for us If we can’t do #1 or #2 we run!

I guess. Not my experience, but that could be true for you.

I get that. My thought would be: don’t convert an existing OSR adventure for 5e, but to write a 5e adventure with an OSR mentality. I think that could get you closer to an OSR experience in 5e than converting.

Have you looked at shadowdark? Not sure about the “power level” but it seems to hit most of your points

I disagree about 5e defeating an OSR playstyle or that it generally devolves to combat. Heck, there are even official 5e adventures that can be completely resolved without combat. Also, my group plays 5e like we played 1e. It is not that the game can’t be played that way, I think the issue is...

Regarding adventures: I wonder why people aren’t making 5e adventures in the style of OSR adventures. Or are they and I am just unaware of them?

I agree 100%!

I strongly disagree! We jumped from 1E to 4E and played the two the same way. If anything I think 4E is more flexible in place styles traditional 1E, 3E, or 6E. People just got hung up on some things and somehow it squashed the creativity. That was not a problem for us.

I feel like we’ve played the same way from 1e all the way through 5e. Though I admit we skipped 2e and 3E. It just feels we play the way we want to play and the mechanics either work or we change them!

Interesting, I didn’t think I was being harsh - just the reality of being an artist

Yep, less than a week per piece for the art my partner commissioned. If artist want to make money they need to work fast!

My partner has commissioned art by contacting artist through deviantart.com I will say you need to be more careful now as the site is flooded with amateur AI art, so you will need to work a bit more to find a true artist. Artstation as more pro’s IMO, but they will cost more too

How about whoever rolls first (DM or PC) goes first. I don’t mean roll initiative so much as declared action and roll to hit, etc.

I think you are missing something. They are not a swarm, but more like 4e minions from what I see

Well, in the cartoon he was able to combine their magic with his to boost his strength. He didn’t use them individually, but all together as some type of supercharger

Well I am glad my DM is more creative than that! I’m not surprised!

But how can a player role play their character if the player doesn’t know the things the character does / should? It’s the DMs world, shouldn’t the DM tell players some basic info their character should / does know? See @SteveC ’s post right after yours (post #120)

Sure, but the whole background mechanic gives a large assumption of knowledge that really isn’t defined if the DM doesn’t provide the information. There’s a bunch of stuff that character should know, if the DM isn’t willing to allow that, well that kind of sucks I think as a player myself.