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I think this is heavily dependent on the campaign and expectations. I see a much more careful approach to going through adventures in OSE than 5e. OSE, at least when I run it, is almost always sandboxy, and as a result, characters/parties can encounter creatures that are beyond their ability...

Great to hear about your success and enjoyment of OSE. I'm also running solely OSE Advanced + house rules and Beyond the Wall games, for the reasons you outlined, and also loving it. I find two things end up happening in our campaigns: 1) we tend to not have (either through gameplay, or player...

This is when I glaze over and think back wistfully on my Prius Hybrid. No mental mathematics, great MPG, and I probably could have kept it going another 100k miles. I know that the newness of the EV will eventually feel normal, but all the research I did into all this stuff made (and still...

We bought a Kia EV6 about 4 months ago after our 2010 Prius Hybrid reached its last legs after about 210,000 miles. We’ve been enjoying it a lot more after we had the home charger installed - which should have been the very first thing we did - after that, the normal running around/back and...

Sorry to hear about the disconnect. All the things they listed as things they didn’t like are things I keep looking for in a game. I recently pretty much stopped RPGing with my 40+ year group (again) because our likes in RPGs diverged to the point where I wasn’t having fun running, and they...

An amazingly high Passive Perception, naturally.

Its not official, and may make things too complicated, but 3d6 Down the Line uses Weapon Traits to further differentiate them. Link to their weapon and armor house rule resources: AV OSE Armor and Weapons List Now, in actual gameplay, I've not seen them get used, so I think its probably chrome...

@Mannahnin I know you've mentioned these rules before, but we are really enjoying the Revised Thief rules from Carcass Crawler 1 (all thief skills on a d6). The ability to put the points into what you want be better at really helps the thief, even with the d4 hit die. We also try to follow...

I think because @Mannahnin and I were in the "cost of elephants" thread. :) Now that it got moved, I'll answer here: In OSE, I haven't had any "slogs" per se, where fighting was bogged down for hours. We can play through larger fights without too much trouble. We use weapons Specialization...

I got the same pdf. It was... interesting, but didn't really help me implement any sort of better economics system in my campaigns. Maybe I just didn't get it, missed something, or don't have the imagination. I usually just eyeball the size of the town, village, city, whatever, and then set...

The biggest issue I've encountered with skipping long, sloggy fights (and I did that several times in 5e with a T1-2 party, where I just knew the encounter in the adventure wouldn't do anything), is that you then don't have any resource depletion. How do you handle that? Is it just time wasted...

I ordered 6 direct from Lego. According to the Bricksearch app, when I just checked, I got 3 Strahds and 3 Ladies of Pain (if the app is correct). Anyone have a Tasha’s or Sass Tam they’d like to trade?

I don’t think the change to command is much about the direction of the game or creating more ‘rules’ per se. I think it is directly tied to the upcoming VTT. It’s easier to code the computer calculation for a short subset of commands, than an open ended one. Likewise, summons and conjures are...

I do both. If there are NPCs that the party interacts with, and the player wants to invite them to be a henchman, then I roll with that. If I’m playing 5e, I might have the player make a charisma check or persuasion or something. In my OSE games, the henchman signing on is handled through...

Wizards get to select 2 new spells for free at every level, of any level they are able to cast. Not quite “dm handout”, especially since there are ‘best spells’ at every level. Add to that species ‘spell like abilities’, feat ‘spell like abilities’, and other ‘spell like abilities’, and you...

Not for me…however…I love Ravenloft and might have purchased if the product was the same set, minus the “coin”, and if the dice 1) could actually be read, I.e. had a better contrast between numbers and dice color, and 2) had a cool Strahd theme logo on the highest numbers on all the dice...

I've avoided Crits in play, because I, as the DM, end up rolling way more dice against the players, which causes me to experience more Crits on them. Coupled with the low HD for characters, at least in OSE, means that they're in even more danger from a mundane hit (for example from a spear...

In my B/X and OSE games, they're fairly fluid. OSE (I'll use that as my shorthand for OSR in this response) uses reaction charts for social encounters. I use that chart for random encounters and as a fall back in social situations, and maybe a minor bonus or penalty depending on the situation...

My sentiments exactly. I switched from 5e to OSE Advanced and have not looked back. I also backed the Dolmenwood kickstarter and am hoping to run that when the books drop (I'm prepping using the pdf's released so far, but I find books easier to use), even though I'll likely be running things...

What are you doing in my head?!? I've been in a similar boat, having played with the same group of players for 40-some years, and I've realized they want a different style of game than I do at this point. We all gave up on 5e a little while ago, and moved back to B/X and OSE Advanced. I'm...