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75 feats is about 75 too many.

Retainers were essential for my OSE party. With only 3 PCs, the large Number Appearing meant every single encounter was a likely TPK, making it difficult for the party to progress. Adding a trio of fighters and a cleric with access to Turn Undead leveled the playing field a bit more in their...

That's the point though, imo. The entire reason for higher damage, lower HP is to cut combat encounters short rather than allowing them to turn into a slog. The outcome of the fight is clear and decisive after the first 1-2 rounds, leaving the losing side the choice of risking death, fleeing...

Falkrest Abbey is phenomenal. It's excellent for new players and GMs, and unlike most normal OSR module suggestions, its actually short enough to finish in a single 4h session.

You're pretty much just describing shadowdark.

So could a 10 STR wizard. A 10 STR wizard could jump and climb up an ~12' ledge. That's hardly an impressive difference. You must have a Tool which is capably of damaging the object you are trying to destroy. You're more likely to break your weapon hitting it against a stone wall than make...

They should cap Martials at level 10 and limit 20 level progression to spellcasters.

The problem comes from bounded accuracy. A Martial can be a demigod in combat because of HP and damage growths, but since their d20 rolls don't grow in the same way, their out-of-combat abilities don't meaningfully improve. They can 1v1 a giant but can't lift a boulder.

Neither. Wotc's 5e adventures are typically incoherent crap or uninspired rehashes of better, older content. Or both.

1. I don't have enough issues with 5e to justify re-buying the corebooks.

Yep. D&D 3rd and its descendants of 3.5, 4e, Pathfinder 1, and Pathfinder 2 assume that magic items are common and easily accessible, and incorporate into their math the assumption that players will have certain amounts of certain objects at a given level. Monster stats and DCs will...

There's sooooo many good ""modern"" OSR adventures - all the OSE adventures, Brad Kerr's stuff, the massive trove of Basic Fantasy adventures, the dungeons in Delver magazine...

It's really tragic that there's no legitimate way to purchase Star Wars Saga or d20 stuff. People sitting on licenses or creative content and doing nothing with them infuriates me.

r/osr is pretty actively hostile and honestly too intense for me as a non-newcomer.

The main thing which is accessible to newcomers on the OSR theory side of things are the trio of Primers - Principia Apochrypha, Matt Finch's Primer, and Chris Gonnermann's Primer. Again - still reasonably obscure to find those. But the Primers are still not really enough context on their own...

That is what I was referring to, yes.

I think its something to that effect. Since so much of OSR theory/discussion is either scattered in blogs or lost to G+, a lot of new players are getting into the games and going through the same cycles when the games grate against their expectations. "Solved" problems aren't solved if no...

Because locking a game behind DRM and preventing users from archiving the things they have purchased for personal use is both an anti-consumer practice and hostile to the historical preservation of RPGs as an art form.

Yes, the combat attrition system only counts combat, that's the point. A Deadly encounter uses approximately 1/3 of the daily XP budget. A single encounter cannot use the entire daily value unless it is massively overloaded.

The DMG does have a solid explanation of what an adventuring day looks like - using the entire XP budget of your party before the get a long rest. This can be done as a combination of encounters of various difficulties.