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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9733412" data-attributes="member: 7026594">In my experience the early levels of old school games mostly require cautious play, but you can pick your spots to be a little more aggressive.  And once you have a 2-3 levels under your belt you're usually not in danger of being dropped by a single round of hits by most opponents, so you can play a bit more bold. Once you get into the mid levels you can often do a lot of butt-kicking, but the occasional incidence of level drain, save or die poison, or dragons breath keep you from getting too complacent.  As a DM I find the art with those dangers is telegraphing and signposting them.  But it's good to make Neutralize Poison/antivenom available too.I think my games usually include "big adventure, epic battles, glorious treasure".  But qualitative adjectives are in the eye of the beholder (or on the tongue of the applier). <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=":)" /> The final encounter of the last OSE convention game I ran involved the party of 5 PCs interrupting a ceremony by three evil priests and a higher level witch/M-U trying to summon/awaken a fallen angel, meatshielded by about twenty cultists.  The PCs were 4th level and managed to defeat all the enemies, with some judicious play and a bit of luck.  I DID give the fighter-types the Sweep rule, so they were throwing 4 attacks per round against the cultists.  The Thief with Ring of Invisibility and Pouch of Summoning Skeletons (which he had pickpocketed off the witch earlier in the adventure) was a key player.</blockquote>

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