So many rules are optional, and almost every rule has a counter-version that is the exact opposite, because maybe people would prefer it that way. I found the main complaint you guys brought up very interesting, because this is a weird case where an OSR game falls to the same problem that I personally think 5e falls to as well in trying to spread their net so wide to include so many different clashing viewpoints, the whole book just feels limp and inconclusive. So it’s hard to take the complaints of “well that’s not real OSR” seriously because there hardly is a “real” OSR except for the OSR that commenter very specifically likes. So there’s a hundred different OSR games that represent a hundred different versions of DnD, and they’re all very similar but specifically different.
This DnD could be Original, or Basic and Expert, or full BECMI, or the Rules Cyclopedia, or Advanced 1e, or Advanced 2e, or it could be any of these but full of homebrew and incorrect rules that the person teaching you didn’t realize they got wrong.
It’s supposed to represent the kind of DnD “I” grew up playing, where “I” is a very specific person. The key problem with OSR is it’s based on a “feeling” more than anything else. I’m a fan of the style myself, it’s not my favorite but I think a classic dungeon delve with some simple rules can be a great time. I feel bad when you guys review OSR games for exactly the reason you brought up everyone comes in clamoring to announce that it’s No True OSR and you have to try again to get the “feel” of the genre. The art of cheating.Banger episode as always, guys.The Armenian hit list of The Young Turks.The second Indian woman born in Africa to make it onto the podcast.What makes me an expert is that I can make up things.Litty: from an Indian family, born in Ethiopia, grown up in Jamaica, went to school in France, and married into an Armenian family.Litty doesn’t cut anyone’s head with a sword, and yet I enjoyed her book ( Amazon link).If no one gets his head chopped off with a sword, what’s the point of reading it?.Fiction has to be great for me to read it.Starting a booze business in order to survive Armenian family gatherings.Operating L.A.'s first legal distillery since Prohibition.
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