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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cruentus" data-source="post: 9455206" data-attributes="member: 7034645">Great to hear about your success and enjoyment of OSE.  I'm also running solely OSE Advanced + house rules and Beyond the Wall games, for the reasons you outlined, and also loving it.I find two things end up happening in our campaigns: 1) we tend to not have (either through gameplay, or player decisions) long quests tied to a specific character; 2) I encourage the engagement of retainers for the characters, who, when a character dies, can then be converted over into a PC.  The latter allows for some of that continuity "Alas, Balian the Brave has died!  I, Arturius, his shieldbearer, will pick up his mantle, and continue the search for  Zardar the Magical!"  Or, the party decides "Yeah, we're done with that, look at this new shiny over here!".  I also know that save or die poisons, and undead level draining are keystones of B/X and old school game play, but I struggle with them as well.  I've tried to work up systems (either using a countdown die system for poisons), or ability score drains for undead, to try to still make them scary, but allow the characters to have the ability to mitigate it somewhat.  Find an antidote, run back to town to get healed, rest, whatever.  I go back and forth on them. I do, however, strongly believe for me and my group, that the ease of building a character in OSE and B/X takes the sting out of character death - if it only takes 5 minutes tops to roll 6 ability scores, pick a class, a species, and off you go, then you don't feel like you put all this effort into the archetype, complicated chargen, a backstory, repicking all your abilities, feats, species abilities, etc.  Though YMMV.  We're not going back to 5e in any way shape or form.  We've moved off of that particular set of rules, and have either settled on OSE for our DnD fix, or have looked at other systems to get what we want - Warhammer Roleplay, Aliens RPG, L5R, etc., rather than modify DnD to try to emulate them, or to fit that square peg into the round hole.</blockquote>

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