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Oh yeah costs - I mean the courts actually seem to feel bad about awarding Anti-SLAPP fees to you, unless you're a celeb or already rich. Plus of course - it's fairly easy to evade paying up if you give no F*'s. Perhaps revealing a bit much about myself... This has unfortunately been part of...

It's absolutely a bizarre filing and the inclusion of weird stuff like Prima Facie tort is in my opinion a classic sign of a doomed pleading, a doomed pleading perhaps by someone who is listening to Sov. Cit. nonsense or some other brand of internet "The law is a series of magic words" sort of...

I don't know how overpowered these items are for AD&D... They're absolutely meant to win fights and provide players with very powerful options, but a) most have charges b) the game plays differently then more modern editions and it's not really about 1-2 big fair fights per adventure. Adventure...

I think this IS the OSR to a degree. That is at least the mid and later periods of it. The aesthetics of both gonzo and grimdark coming to dominate and the real emergence of ultralight system design are both tools to play short high lethality campaigns and sessions. I see this as a response to...

I've always found it interesting, but I don't especially like Castle Amber (I like B2 and G1 more for example) ... I think it's an interesting effort though and well worth a read. It is different and it does some neat things but the whole of it feels very directed and a bit forced. It's also...

My impression with both B2 and the G Series (which does have some meh adventures) is that it's specifically the result of Gygax's approach to play and understanding of dungeon design for the campaign (rather then tournament). The G series, and I'm mostly thinking of G1, is an infiltration and...

I never found ToSK especially pretentious or more boring then many adventures. I think it has two significant flaws that prevent it from meeting its goal as an introduction to OSR/Dungeon Crawl style games. 1) Its description tends to be rather generalized. That isn't to say they are bland...

Errant might fit for you. Not sure if it quite meets your goals for crunch, but it has some complexity and character options while remaining a lighter system. Here's a link to the .itch page which (scroll down) includes a free no art version. There's also an online card based SRD that might be...

I played B/X and AD&D starting in 1983ish? I now run OD&D (1974 LBBs, no Greyhawk, and houseruled - as one must) games. Ran/played 5E for a year around 2018 and it didn't quite click for me.

So a few things... A) 2E will work, but you may have to do a few adaptive tweaks, most OSR adventures are written in a variety of house ruled formats that while broadly compatible with 2E will not be close to the stat blocks and such. It should be pretty easy. B) Levels 4-7, have not been...

In some places. Kinda. In the PHB it emphasizes the importance and the LLB (#'s) to Coins system (now made weirder by the connection to weight lifting by STR) to try to make sense of things. It then offers movement rates (where encumbrance is supposed to live) that list gear based on rough sizes...

Isn't that everything in Men & Magic .... :)

Sigh. Your "argument" got lost under the personal attacks. I mention G+ as a useful date. The changes go deeper then that. The question is and I think should be "At what point do these changes create different scenes/movements/genres etc?" If everything is OSR, it's a meaningless term. I...

It's in the LBBs at least. I don't have my copies here - but I'm pretty sure it's the standard way older editions handled supplies. That was the irony I was trying to point out. Now did people use it? Not that I could really say. In 198X we mostly didn't give a damn about encumbrance.

What the heck - I edit and it reposts... So I'll add a thought on Nostalgia. I think the OSR was significantly about nostalgia, but it's useful to think about nostalgia a bit more then good or bad. Nostalgia isn't just a deadly disease effecting pre-20th century soldiers ... it's a really...

Note James isn't talking about specific encumbrance for items - he's discussing the dungeon as a puzzle solved by item use, and yes - this is part of the long term set of OSR interests and ideas. What I'm pointing out is that the use of a Miscellaneous Equipment "80 cn" catch all vs. slot or...

That's fine. The issue is that your argument to refute it is that my goal in making this distinction is sadness or a sense of loss over something and that this invalidates the my thesis. It's either an ad hominine or a straw man, I don't care which really, but it's not an actual argument...

Sure - but this is around the time I at least started seeing more attention paid to specific encumbrance for supply items. Prior to this most often the idea that the referee could simply make rulings about the realistic size the miscellaneous adventuring material were the most common...

One can recognize that things are different without being upset about it or making a judgment that one is better then the other. This is how categorization works.

I note that the "miscellaneous adventuring gear hammerspace" you describe is exactly how OD&D, B/X, and AD&D approach mundane supplies... The idea that tracking rope and spikes and flasks of oil and torch weight individually is important was largeIy adopted mid-OSR as a way to revitalize the low...