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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werecorpse" data-source="post: 7983086" data-attributes="member: 55491">Responding in order (sorry I’m not great at cutting and pasting)yes, there is a difference between people who picked up and played the game with their friends and people who didn’t (one group picked up and played the game wth their friends and presumably the others didn’t?) I’m not sure what you’re saying here though. Are you saying because I played in the 70’s with my friends those games aren't old school? Yes some of the AD&D games I played were Monty Hall imo but plenty of games weren’t. Plenty of games played back in the 70s and early 80s were like this. That was one form of old school gaming. Have you ever read any of Robilars adventures?yep hammer of thunderbolts + +  was V good, So was the holy avenger so was the Vorpal sword so was the nine life stealer so was the luck blade. Lotsa power options in AD&D and I am not even talking about magic staves!!re wishes that quote was based on how you used the wish not how many you had - so what?you are right the flying throne of the gods was one of those things that was outside the rules. I remember it now because I knew it was meant to be immovable. So I agree this should t have been allowed RAW. But it was a one shot and I enjoyed playing in it so it achieved its goal.making up your own monsters was common back in the day, it still is where I play, but i think we fought Kas and Vecna in a TSR module about Vecna? and I think Satan made an appearance in a judges guild module Under the storm giants castle. It was pretty silly. the ring was called the ring of wend from the judges guild Inferno module, think it turned my character evil so the 6x action was in a big boss fight the last time I played him. So sad to see him go but... rolled up a new one for a new game the next week.So as I say, for the most part we played by the rules. We homebrewed monsters and magic items but the actual RAW had gear that was over the top as well. That was actual old school play, not a modern re imagining of it. when people today say OSR they appear to mean a return to simple rules and low level low magic gaming. Thats perfectly fine and fun. It’s no more “old school” than monty haul - when was that term coined? 1976?But anyone who thinks that “back in the day“ gaming (and I mean not just kids who didn’t know better but Gygax etc) was all goblins, copper pieces, torches and sudden death and didnt have crazy loot and power pcs is kidding themselves.</blockquote>

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