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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9054902" data-attributes="member: 86653">It's understandable. The community can be...a lot...sometimes.I can't answer for them, but I started with B/X. I think a fair amount of the attraction is that very brutality and procedure you mention. My experience is 5E players become dissatisfied with the ease of that game and start looking for similar but more challenging games. The players who also want something a bit more structured find OSE attractive. There's also a lot to be said about wanting to play a game that's a game instead of dealing with 5E as a story-focused game that a lot of people seem to push. It's also a self-perpetuating thing. OSE is popular because OSE is popular with a wide range of old-school gamers, so when new people come in, they are pointed to OSE. Like 5E with newcomers to RPGs.Despite my love of so many 2E settings and a lot of the rules of 2E, I've never actually played it. I think my ideal version of D&amp;D would be something as simple as B/X with a bit of updates from BECMI, RC, AD&amp;D, and 2E. Also port in dis/advantage because I love that so much more than piddly little modifiers. But then, there are so many actual old-school, OSR, and NuSR games already out there doing almost exactly what I want. Black Sword Hack. DCC RPG. WFRP2E. Pirate Borg. Lair of the Leopard Empresses (Monsters! Monsters! / Tunnels &amp; Trolls). Classic Traveller / Cepheus Engine. Etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9054902, member: 86653"] It's understandable. The community can be...a lot...sometimes. I can't answer for them, but I started with B/X. I think a fair amount of the attraction is that very brutality and procedure you mention. My experience is 5E players become dissatisfied with the ease of that game and start looking for similar but more challenging games. The players who also want something a bit more structured find OSE attractive. There's also a lot to be said about wanting to play a game that's a game instead of dealing with 5E as a story-focused game that a lot of people seem to push. It's also a self-perpetuating thing. OSE is popular because OSE is popular with a wide range of old-school gamers, so when new people come in, they are pointed to OSE. Like 5E with newcomers to RPGs. Despite my love of so many 2E settings and a lot of the rules of 2E, I've never actually played it. I think my ideal version of D&D would be something as simple as B/X with a bit of updates from BECMI, RC, AD&D, and 2E. Also port in dis/advantage because I love that so much more than piddly little modifiers. But then, there are so many actual old-school, OSR, and NuSR games already out there doing [I]almost[/I] exactly what I want. Black Sword Hack. DCC RPG. WFRP2E. Pirate Borg. Lair of the Leopard Empresses (Monsters! Monsters! / Tunnels & Trolls). Classic Traveller / Cepheus Engine. Etc. [/QUOTE]

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