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r/osr is pretty actively hostile and honestly too intense for me as a non-newcomer.

The main thing which is accessible to newcomers on the OSR theory side of things are the trio of Primers - Principia Apochrypha, Matt Finch's Primer, and Chris Gonnermann's Primer. Again - still reasonably obscure to find those. But the Primers are still not really enough context on their own...

That is what I was referring to, yes.

I think its something to that effect. Since so much of OSR theory/discussion is either scattered in blogs or lost to G+, a lot of new players are getting into the games and going through the same cycles when the games grate against their expectations. "Solved" problems aren't solved if no...

Because locking a game behind DRM and preventing users from archiving the things they have purchased for personal use is both an anti-consumer practice and hostile to the historical preservation of RPGs as an art form.

Yes, the combat attrition system only counts combat, that's the point. A Deadly encounter uses approximately 1/3 of the daily XP budget. A single encounter cannot use the entire daily value unless it is massively overloaded.

The DMG does have a solid explanation of what an adventuring day looks like - using the entire XP budget of your party before the get a long rest. This can be done as a combination of encounters of various difficulties.

I don't know if they really can at this point. They've been Band-Aid fixing it for a while now by changing Short Rest features into PB-Per-Long Rest features instead so more classes can nova harder, but that still doesn't solve the problem. Ultimately 5e at its core is an Attrition game and...

Stuff like this is why I don't play with Feats...

I think its pretty clear that the main goal of 5.5 is "revitalize sales" and the chance to fix some problems and improve low-satisfaction elements is just a nice bonus.

I think a very experienced GM with a lot of free time could turn B2 into an incredible experience. A beginner is likely to either get frustrated and quit, or completely ignore the rules of the game they're learning in favor of just fudging everything to keep the party alive after the third or...

KotB is really good if you have around a dozen players. Less than that, they'll constantly get slaughtered by the always-hostile demihuman gank squads in every single cave. A fun keep on the borderlands drinking game is to take a drink every time a room description indicates that the creatures...

Wotc owns all User Generated Content anyone has ever published onto DMsguild, and the license of DMsguild allows them to use it for any purpose indefinitely.

I have monsters prioritize attacking downed, but not-yet-dead PCs. I also prioritize including them in AOEs when possible. This is a great job for lower level Lackey type monsters or anything with Multiattack. Any rolled death save should have at least a 50% chance of PC death, if they even...

Pathfinder isn't any less complex than 3.0, its just a little bit less "janky". If you're used to and happy with 3.0, there's no need to switch over.

SFG's dark souls TTRPG does not inspire confidence that this will be a good product...

The addition of Hit Dice/Short Rests, removal of buyable Magic Items, and weakening of Healing spells all work together to make a great system for attrition based dungeon exploration. The 3.5/pf metagame relied entirely upon purchasing and spamming Wands of Cure Light Wounds - adventures would...

But like -that option does exist: Playing a spellcaster. Spellcasters are the complex classes for people who want lots of choices, and martials are the simple classes for people who don't. And there's some middle ground like Eldritch Trickster.

Feats and Multiclassing both make the 5e play experience worse in all cases.

I wouldn't count on any of the promises made at the end of the OGL crisis that haven't already happened actually being done.