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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6226375" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Only speaking for myself here, but the reason I first started looking into the pre-2000 games was pretty much D&D 4th Edition. That game made me realize not only that I didn't like what D&D had become, but that everything had been going into a wrong direction since 3.5e, and many of the problems that D&D has now are based on the basic principles of the d20 system.I still play Pathfinder, because frankly the math of AD&D is so abysmally horrible that playing with the Pathfinder Core Rulebook still seems the better choice to me. But now I run my games with base classes and core book feats only and only up to 10th level, and the way I approach writing adventures and settings is very much OSR style.It's not so much that the d20 system is worse than the AD&D system (both are bad in different ways), but the whole approach to character options and adventure structure that is found in pretty much all d20 seems just entirely wrong to me. As terrible a system AD&D might have been, the game at least had its approach to actually playing the game right.That's actually quite easy to answer. As many old players will tell you, it was very common that groups were unaware of certain minor rules or decited to do certain things differently than the rules said. Back in the day, the creators of the games actually encouraged such things explicitly in the books. The rules were understood as a basic framework that every group should customize to fit their particular needs and preferences. There wasn't really an internet as we now know, and the people you'd been talking to about your game were usually the same people who were playing in your group. So you often were not really aware how much differently the game was played by other groups.Now many people, and most of them are in their 30s and 40s, release their own version of the old rules, and obviously they alter them in ways that resemble how they used to play it in the 80s and 90s. If you look at the OSR games that are out there, but none of them really has the rules you would like, you can relatively easily make your own version and add it to the pool.</blockquote>

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