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Bonus Video: Going from 5E to OSR (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-14 21:00:03
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2026-06
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Content

I discuss some of the differences between 5th Edition D&D and OSR style games, an what players going from one to the other might expect.

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Comments

Earl Rumburg

Having played most of them, and DMing some 5E games now, I appreciate this trip down memory lane. I am currently trying to bring a little "old school" into my 5E games, and plan on running some of the older editions at my local game store to give some of the newer players an idea of how we got here.

Richard Smith

I am also trying to bring some Old School elements into my 5e game. A video on how DMs can do that might be a good idea, there are some optional mechanics in the 5e DMG that are helpful, but the bigger issue (in my opinion) is the philosophy of running and playing the game. If the DM and the players approach the game with an old school mindset, I think the mechanics will largely work themselves out.

Timotheos

I posted some examples from the 5e book itself—it has a chapter called the DM Toolkit—that could make it more old-school but a lot of the 5e commenters on the video don’t seem to agree. In fact a lot of the old school players are so reliant on later stuff like skills that I wonder if they should even consider themselves old school.