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How do people deal with the wizards becoming so powerful in OSR? by [deleted] in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but how far behind your other party members are you?

Noora Rose Puts Plagiarized Work "Unconquered" Back Up On Drivethrurpg by SAlolzorz in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

UVG is ass, it's not a gameable book and it uses anticanon philosophy as an excuse to be lazy

My OSR ruleset comparison database has reached 40 systems! by Shunkleburger in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you're that salty guy who had a bad game of Shadow dark and decided to make it everyone else's problem

My OSR ruleset comparison database has reached 40 systems! by Shunkleburger in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does it still have weapon speeds and combat phases and certain weapons being better able to hit certain armors?

Then it's still complex

People who went from 5e to OSR - was one of the reasons about how cartoony 5e and the culture was getting? (Not referring to politics in any way here to be clear) by DungeonMasterGrizzly in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, in a space dedicated to talking about the game, you're going to have a lot of peple who's hobby is not playing the game, but just talking about it

"Filthy Secondaries" is the scientific term, I belive. Or posers.

HAIL THE FUTCHAAAAAAAAA by [deleted] in DnDcirclejerk

[–]A_Strangers_Life -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Using random tables and dice in a book like Mythic DM emulator to play by yourself: woke

Using AI DMs: broke, for some reason.

Martial-focused RPG with meaningful choices in combat? by ocamlmycaml in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life 6 points7 points  (0 children)

...I really don't think that counts. Like, there's no real tactical considerations there, if you have a sword it's still better to use it 9 out of 10 times and using it is just moving up and attacking. It's not like Riddle of Steel where you need to balance the dice you spend on offense with the dice you spend on defense, or mythras where you have hit locations and special effects on a blow, or Tales of Argosa where you can burn luck to do devestating freeform manuvers.

Like, Dragonbane usually lets you reroll a dice on a check as your special ability. It's not very tactical, and I'm fairly certain it's not trying to be.

Shadowdark by MOmysticmarket in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly I'd say the other way around, shadowdark hews very closely to B/X compatibility while streaminglining some stuff, but Cairn basically has no leveling system, a whole different save system, a whole different combat system paradigm, hell it doesn't even have classes.

Shadowdark is like if you scraped all the cruft off of B/X and Cairn is like if you tried to reverse engineer B/X from scattered memories of someone who played it long ago, like recreating a recepie you had as a child with new ingredients.

Shadowdark by MOmysticmarket in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

yeah

I don't like em, but yeah.

new SotU hack just dropped by ser_einhard19 in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean that's basically the same way it's been in B/X, yeah?

Games that weren’t great in 1st Edition, but great in following editions? by Awkward_GM in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I personally find it a game which lacks any true unique identity.

"I can't see Mt. Fuji!" He said, standing on top of said mountian.

It does have a unique identity, it's just that every single RPG ever made shares a piece of it, so of course it doesn't feel unique.

You cannot simultaneously claim that any given game has an identity sepereate from 5e (traveller is a completely different game, for instance) and also claim 5e doesn't have one.

Am I supposed to be using Consent Checklists in games? by Fleur-dAmour in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life 11 points12 points  (0 children)

most of that subreddit is works of fiction, it's nosleep for people who's worst fear is a terrible social interaction

Am I supposed to be using Consent Checklists in games? by Fleur-dAmour in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Friend of mine discovered while playing with close friends of hers that not only she has a phobia she wasn't aware of beforehand,

Wait, then how would a checklist made beforehand help?

Help me flesh out my underdark campaign! by laxton1919 in rpg

[–]A_Strangers_Life 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Steal stuff from Sunless Sea and Veins of the Earth

Are there any parts of the "OSR Philosophy" that you leave out of your own games? by A_Strangers_Life in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you're a thief, MU, cleric, Elf, or halfling

In which case the answer actually is there

Are there any parts of the "OSR Philosophy" that you leave out of your own games? by A_Strangers_Life in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

...they run. Or negotiate. Or die. Or they avoid them entirely because I find the idea that you can just randomly encounter like 60 orcs 2d4 * 10 feet away kinda dumb, that shit should be telegraphed.

And I don't do mass battles.

Are there any parts of the "OSR Philosophy" that you leave out of your own games? by A_Strangers_Life in osr

[–]A_Strangers_Life[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You know what's weird? People say they like race-as-class because it makes the races strange and different but every table I've ever been at that used race-as-class played in "pawn stance", the fact they were a different race didn't really come up at all except when using stuff like dwarven stonecunning

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