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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9397996" data-attributes="member: 2205">I played OD&amp;D, BD&amp;D, B/X and AD&amp;D in the earliest to middle 80s, then left D&amp;D entirely right around the time that &quot;1.5&quot; was coming out, although not because of that. Came back for the 3.x era, didn't adopt 4e, and left d20 games for good in the late 00s or early 10s. I don't play any modern version of D&amp;D, and am not very motivated to try them either. But I also don't play OSR games really. If you were to suggest, as I do, that to be truly OSR you need to replicate both the older style rules and the older style playstyles, I'd suggest that I don't mind OSR adjacent rules that implement some modern concepts on top of a rules lite OSR-like chassis, but I utterly reject an OSR playstyle paradigm. That's exactly the main reason I left D&amp;D back in the 80s in the first place.Although I do have my own fantasy heartbreaker homebrew rules, you could do something pretty similar with Shadowdark, Knave 2e or even Five Torches Deep and just ignoring all of the dungeoneering stuff and gold for XP, etc. house rule my custom races, and just not play them in a very OSR style.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 9397996, member: 2205"] I played OD&D, BD&D, B/X and AD&D in the earliest to middle 80s, then left D&D entirely right around the time that "1.5" was coming out, although not because of that. Came back for the 3.x era, didn't adopt 4e, and left d20 games for good in the late 00s or early 10s. I don't play any modern version of D&D, and am not very motivated to try them either. But I also don't play OSR games really. If you were to suggest, as I do, that to be truly OSR you need to replicate both the older style rules and the older style playstyles, I'd suggest that I don't mind OSR adjacent rules that implement some modern concepts on top of a rules lite OSR-like chassis, but I utterly reject an OSR playstyle paradigm. That's exactly the main reason I left D&D back in the 80s in the first place. Although I do have my own fantasy heartbreaker homebrew rules, you could do something pretty similar with Shadowdark, Knave 2e or even Five Torches Deep and just ignoring all of the dungeoneering stuff and gold for XP, etc. house rule my custom races, and just not play them in a very OSR style. [/QUOTE]

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