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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 6100925" data-attributes="member: 26563">Awesome post, Remathilis.To the OP: I'm the original author of OSRIC, and the author of Swords & Wizardry. I also wrote a little booklet called the Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, which might be interesting for you since you're going to try out some of the older rules. My suggestion for getting into pre-3e D&D is to start as simple as possible, because the goal is to learn how to play without using a rule for everything, and this is very hard to do when you already know a rule for everything (from the ones you used in 3e). It is very difficult to forget everything and start improvising. Simple means:a) OD&D is simple to play, but hard to learn. The Swords & Wizardry retroclone is the better option for learning it, then move on either to Swords & Wizardry Complete (from Frog God Games) or to the actual original books. They will be sold through WotC very soon -- used copies will probably be very expensive in Ukraine.b) Basic D&D is also easy to learn. You can get the original pdf from WotC for $5, or you can get the clone, Labyrinth Lord. From there, if you want to advance, you can move on to Advanced D&D or its clone, OSRIC.Those are the two pathways I would suggest. Since Swords & Wizardry has an ascending AC option, that will create less of a bump while learning how to play. Starting with one of the simple rules to "get the hang of it," then on to something more advanced.</blockquote>

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