Smoldering Wizard's Old-School Gaming Forums

For me... if it doesn't include high-level D&D it isn't really D&D. I didn't really play with my Rules Cyclopedia until I was grown, but the tantalizing hints of Immortalty-- in the Wrath of the Immortals set I never owned-- shaped my idea of what D&D was. I like it best around 15th-16th level, but ...

I really like Old School Essentials for its pure, clean presentation-- even though I normally vastly prefer BECMI to B/X.

Whatever my preferences for old-school playstyles, I find that I just can't use the old-school books anymore.

I'm currently... abusing a game of Old School Essentials -- using some weird homebrew-- to replace AD&D in my Spelljammer game; these house rules are very close to what I'm trying to do in my own special OSR-adjacent project: Gallows & Godwars , in which I try to use some various Pathfinder third-pa...