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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9389359" data-attributes="member: 6684958">New School is about all the players sharing the emerging story plot equally.&nbsp; In whatever way each game feels best to make that happen.&nbsp; Old School is very often, but not always, nearly 100% the DMs plot and story.&nbsp; Many OS players don't want any part of anything outside the game: they just want to play in the game as a character and &quot;play to find out&quot;.True.&nbsp; Many OS games have no story arcs, they are just the episodic tales of a group of hardy adventures and they travel the land.&nbsp; And because of this, D&amp;D specifically had lots of mini games: lots of adventures, spells, and most of all monster stat blocks had mini games of how/when/in what way to do something.&nbsp; They could be simple or extensive, but were not really connected to much of anything.&nbsp; On one page you had a 1 in 6 chance of slipping, six pages later you had a 30% chance of slipping, two pages later it was a roll a save vs breath weapons or slip and four pages after that it was roll a dexterity check or slip.New School D&amp;D specificity is more streamlined and homogenized: The whole D20 mechanic is the&nbsp; star here.&nbsp; Nearly everything was brought under the D20, roll and add bonuses to beat a DC mechanic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9389359, member: 6684958"] New School is about all the players sharing the emerging story plot equally. In whatever way each game feels best to make that happen. Old School is very often, but not always, nearly 100% the DMs plot and story. Many OS players don't want any part of anything outside the game: they just want to play in the game as a character and "play to find out". True. Many OS games have no story arcs, they are just the episodic tales of a group of hardy adventures and they travel the land. And because of this, D&D specifically had lots of mini games: lots of adventures, spells, and most of all monster stat blocks had mini games of how/when/in what way to do something. They could be simple or extensive, but were not really connected to much of anything. On one page you had a 1 in 6 chance of slipping, six pages later you had a 30% chance of slipping, two pages later it was a roll a save vs breath weapons or slip and four pages after that it was roll a dexterity check or slip. New School D&D specificity is more streamlined and homogenized: The whole D20 mechanic is the star here. Nearly everything was brought under the D20, roll and add bonuses to beat a DC mechanic. [/QUOTE]

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