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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4673161" data-attributes="member: 49613">If I may say so, it's hard to get more Old School than my 1975 rules Empire of the Petal Throne campaign. It is a megadungeon campaign, started from 1st level, with expendable slaves/hirelings, wandering monsters, deathtraps, monsters on level 1 that have 7 hit dice (you need to trick it or run away), XP for gold, etc.They even had to solve a mathematical puzzle posed by a robot to avoid being disintegrated.And yet, the last session went like this:Left safe NPC-controlled temple in the megadungeon.Met group of wandering monsters; successful parley avoided combat.About two hours of pure role play / political intrigue in the city above the dungeon.What you do in a session of Old School play is not monolithic "hack and slay". Old School versus New School comes down to this:Non-combat action handled by description and role playing: Old SchoolNon-combat action handled by a roll versus relevant skill: New School</blockquote>