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I am sure there are, but it just strikes me as an invitation to frustration to me (from either side of the screen).

One of the issues with this, particularly when using the old school rules, is that much of it is driven if not by GM whim, by pure chance. At least skills and feats help weigh the chances in the character's favor. Much of the GM advice in old versions of D&D amount to "flip a coin" (or, rather...

I like this post. Thanks.

Isn't tactical acumen "player skill"?

Good point. I edited the title.

I started a new thread about "player skill" FYI.

Spinning this out of the 6E thread because, well it isn't about 6E. Anyway -- much is often made of "player skill" and "OSR" and how modern games are just button mashing. I don't really buy this as a generational divide: I think people in the 70s could rely on their character sheets, and I...

Are you suggesting that people actively made suboptimal choices in order to preserve the "player skill" aspect of the game? I find that difficult to believe.

I never read the comics, but this should be a fun, bloody diversion.

I think it is almost always overstated. I mean, you could detect a secret door by simply walking past it in 1E if you were an elf.

I don't think of "player skill" being particularly focused around paranoia (although that can be a feature). It is more about using your noggin rather than what is on your character sheet, if OSR folks are to be believed. I don't actually buy that -- those iron spikes and sacks of frogs are on...

I think the "player skill" argument is used too often as too simplistic an explanation for how OSR and Modern D&D differ. First of all, even from the beginning of the hobby some folks leveraged what was on their character sheet. And even now lots of people try creative solutions to problems even...

The game designers don't even get spells right. This idea that somehow an arcane spell is sacrosanct (irony!) the moment it appears in a PC playable species only (weird) repertoire is fundamentally flawed. The GM is not there to provide you the perfect experience. They are there to play the...

Firefly and BG both have been adapted.

Whatever one your running, my dude.

What do you need all the detail for? "In the Tomb of Fallen Selves, a character's own shadow can animate and work against the character. These shadows are not combatants but can perform frustrating actions such as blowing out light sources, interrupting rests and frustrating stealth attempts."...

What? Lol. "The GM is not allowed to adjust thing for balance because the players deserve to have the unbalanced thing too!" No. The thing that works for a single use encounter is not necessarily a thing that works for a PC. But then, I avoid this by not giving PCs access to these things at...

Videogames need "previously on" buttons. I often play a game for 10 o 20 hours but then leave it be for a while. What sucks is when I try and go back to it, I dont remember the controls, or the story, and I ultimately end up abandoning it rather than starting over (because I know I will only...

That is a gloriously messed up idea.

Too literal. It's a fantasy game.