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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6226478" data-attributes="member: 63508">To understand the reason for the OSR, you must also understand why the new school was created:Playstyles and SettingsBasically the old-school D&D games were easy for the DM to tailor. This allow for them to create many different worlds to plays and methods to play in them. But there were limitations and preferences ingrained in the system which made some styles and settings harder than other. So the newer versions of D&D started to cater to these hindered styles and settings. Unfortunately they catered to old-school styles less and the cycle restarts.Think of it like sports.Imagine if you were the fans of a team with excellent defense but offense and scoring was just average at best. Like a football team with great linebackers and d backs but the quarterback was average and the OLine was snaky. So a few fans would say "Hey. If we had a great QB and a decent running game... Superbowl." And the owner hears and tells the GM to draft and trade for offense year after year. But you excellent defense gets old or injured as your offense improves. Now you have a high scoring team with no defense. "Remember when we were a defensive team." says a fan.</blockquote>