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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9376284" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The way people describe how "everyone" played back in the day bear little resemblance to the games I've played.  I've only been in a handful of high lethality games. In one, the DM ran exactly one game and we never had him DM again.  Another was a con game specifically described as a problem solving high lethality game. When we first started playing we did dungeons because that's all we knew* and it was easy.  But after a while we branched out and our games became more character driven.  As far as how to interact with traps the style of every trap takes 15 minutes of interaction carefully describing approach and if you describe something wrong you're dead is something I've never enjoyed.So I don't really think old school and new school is the right term.  On the other hand I don't even think Narrative Driven Play is quite the right description either, the games I usually play are still fairly rules bound for what the PCs can do.  Some campaigns are linear Story Driven in that there are beginning, middle and end goals.  In my case I have more of a character driven game, kind-of-sort-of sandbox where I have various actors as both enemy and ally with their own motivations and goals while character motivation and goals are more collaboratively decided.  I guess I just have no idea what to call that.It's interesting to discuss different approaches, I'm not sure that I see labels necessarily meaning a whole lot.*Complete sideline, but even back in AD&D days we had arguments about who were better, fighters or wizards.  We even set up a mock battle to the death.  My fighter won which to me proved to me that fighters worked just fine.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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