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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 7717210" data-attributes="member: 40166">&quot;I think most D&amp;D groups would enjoy playing the way I play more than the way the market has gone&quot; is somehow not persuasive. In my experience, there are a lot of players who played 1E who now play Pathfinder; I know of one group that has existed for 25 years, with some members having started ten years before that, that plays Pathfinder. Also in my experience, the responses of players to character deaths has not encouraged me to run my game in a way that increases the number of PC fatalities.Hard numbers, especially about what people &quot;would enjoy playing&quot; are going to be very hard to come up with. I'm satisfied that those that want Labyrinth Lords and OSRIC and friends can get them, and those of us who want Pathfinder or 5E can get them, with pemerton being the one stuck with the bag of an OOP game. (Sorry.) Perhaps some of us wouldn't be running or playing the games we are in an optimal world; there's a long list of games I'd rather be running than Pathfinder I'm running. But TORG or InSpectres or Farflung are less similar, not more similar to your playing style. If I really want to do a dungeon crawl, I've got Gloomhaven coming.As for random encounters... I'l l let <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0145.html" target="_blank">the Order of the Stick (Vaarsuvius)</a> speak for me: &quot;Each party has one (and only one) encounter because random encounters are tedious, and a waste of everyone's valuable time. So no matter how long the journey, you only have one random encounter before everyone gets bored and moves on to the main plot.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 7717210, member: 40166"] "I think most D&D groups would enjoy playing the way I play more than the way the market has gone" is somehow not persuasive. In my experience, there are a lot of players who played 1E who now play Pathfinder; I know of one group that has existed for 25 years, with some members having started ten years before that, that plays Pathfinder. Also in my experience, the responses of players to character deaths has not encouraged me to run my game in a way that increases the number of PC fatalities. Hard numbers, especially about what people "would enjoy playing" are going to be very hard to come up with. I'm satisfied that those that want Labyrinth Lords and OSRIC and friends can get them, and those of us who want Pathfinder or 5E can get them, with pemerton being the one stuck with the bag of an OOP game. (Sorry.) Perhaps some of us wouldn't be running or playing the games we are in an optimal world; there's a long list of games I'd rather be running than Pathfinder I'm running. But TORG or InSpectres or Farflung are less similar, not more similar to your playing style. If I really want to do a dungeon crawl, I've got Gloomhaven coming. As for random encounters... I'l l let [URL="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0145.html"]the Order of the Stick (Vaarsuvius)[/URL] speak for me: "Each party has one (and only one) encounter because random encounters are tedious, and a waste of everyone's valuable time. So no matter how long the journey, you only have one random encounter before everyone gets bored and moves on to the main plot." [/QUOTE]

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