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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8341368" data-attributes="member: 29398">What's the opposite of OSR?&nbsp; In general tone, I can think of:--- unkillable or plot-protected PCs (e.g. player permission is required to kill a PC)--- same players play the same party of PCs for the whole campaign i.e. little or no in-campaign turnover of either PCs or players--- one character per player; no henches, backups, etc.--- players expect mechanical benefits/support for quirks, characterizations and traits of a PC--- short, fast campaigns where level-ups or power-ups fly at you faster than you can catch them--- greatly diminished (or even zero) chance of outright PC failure, both on the micro (cf. fail-forward) and macro scale--- players able to use metagame mechanics (e.g. Plot Points, fate points, etc.) or straight narration to influence* in-game fiction--- PC resource management (e.g. ammo, rations, encumbrance, even finances) is nonexistent, or nearly so--- expendable PC resources e.g. hit points, spell slots, etc. are quickly and very easily recovered, and there's more of them to start with--- design-side discouragement against tweaking the rules or kitbashing the system to make the game your own--- combat as sport* - always to their advantage, of course.Howzat for a start? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8341368, member: 29398"] What's the opposite of OSR? In general tone, I can think of: --- unkillable or plot-protected PCs (e.g. player permission is required to kill a PC) --- same players play the same party of PCs for the whole campaign i.e. little or no in-campaign turnover of either PCs or players --- one character per player; no henches, backups, etc. --- players expect mechanical benefits/support for quirks, characterizations and traits of a PC --- short, fast campaigns where level-ups or power-ups fly at you faster than you can catch them --- greatly diminished (or even zero) chance of outright PC failure, both on the micro (cf. fail-forward) and macro scale --- players able to use metagame mechanics (e.g. Plot Points, fate points, etc.) or straight narration to influence* in-game fiction --- PC resource management (e.g. ammo, rations, encumbrance, even finances) is nonexistent, or nearly so --- expendable PC resources e.g. hit points, spell slots, etc. are quickly and very easily recovered, and there's more of them to start with --- design-side discouragement against tweaking the rules or kitbashing the system to make the game your own --- combat as sport * - always to their advantage, of course. Howzat for a start? :) [/QUOTE]

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