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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8490962" data-attributes="member: 86653">Might be because you posted this:Which happens to be exactly how the bolded game works...So you want to play an older game that works exactly how you want it to, but since precisely zero older games work that way...you can either go with a modern game that's designed to work exactly how you want it to or fiddle with and house rule an older game to work how you want it to. I don't know about you, but in nearly 40 years of doing this I've learned that players seem to be far more interested in modern games than older games, and far more interested in sticking as close to RAW as possible than pages and pages of house rules. You're already dealing with a tiny sliver of potential players going with an older game. The further you get from RAW the more that potential number shrinks.Old-School Essentials is, as mentioned, a formatting clean up of B/X. So if you're interested in playing B/X but want a new book that's well made and not a stapled booklet printed 40 years ago, go with OSE. There's also gobs of wonderfully weird and wild adventures and supplements for OSE...which work just as well with B/X as they're the same game with a modern printing, editing, and organization.</blockquote>