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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8186409" data-attributes="member: 70468">I view the lethality as a feature. The PCs shouldn’t be defaulting to combat. OSE provides tools for controlling your engagement with encounters, and I intend to let PCs make full use of them.Still, I’m not certain how people will respond to character death once one does happen. We did have a TPK in PF2 (and one before that in 5e), but that was different. If the PCs avoid combat completely in this adventure, we may have to do a mock combat or two to get a feel for what it’s like.I don’t see the thief skills as a problem (they’re still better than their peers), but the amount of spells could be. One player did mention that after the session. I noted that there were more ways to engage with the game than just casting spells, and he seemed mollified, but I expect we’ll discuss it in our post mortem.Unlike the classic fantasy genre rules, which aim to be an accurate restatement of B/X, the advanced fantasy genre rules are only inspired by AD&D. The classes are designed with B/X-levels for power and complexity, and they avoid being outright better than the classic ones. There are some alignment requirements, but none of them struck me as unreasonable (no one has to be chaotic).Some of the advanced rules are a little fiddly or take the game in a direction that feels against the spirit of the core rules and classic fantasy genre rules, but I just don’t use those.My first D&D was 3e, so a lot of this is new to me (in a practical sense rather than just theoretical). My biggest worry is that even though everyone understands the game is pretty lethal (and acts accordingly), it’ll be a different thing once combat happens, and a PC dies. PC death isn’t new for us, but managing and dealing with expectations is still important.</blockquote>

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