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Ose rocks!

You said you’re not a big fan of attribute rolls. In old-school D&D games and their clones I’m not either but they have their place. Recognizing (thru play or, indeed ability checks), the difference between the beefy fighter, the intelligent fighter, the charismatic fighter, matters. It’s also why, despite all of us knowing any character may die at any time, I still encourage players to scratch down a few words or a couple of sentences of the character’s background, as such may be useful and fun in play….the “country boy” fighter is going to be very different than the “raised by his father in the city who was a sergeant-at-arms”. The Four Musketeers are a great example. Also….no need for extraneous classes when a fighter has a background of being a hunter and/or forester, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. I think ability checks can indeed come into their own sometimes in old-school D&D due to this/these. 🙂

Old vid, but just wished to grant you kudos for how well-presented this vid is! Born in 1974, been playing since fall of 1986. B/X is one of my faves, so of course OSE is a big deal for me. Having said that, I’d personally default to B/X only because I know exactly where everything is. Heheh I also slightly prefer the OD&D clone WhiteBox: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game for years now. Also, as a rules-lite guy also love using RISUS and, despite being a thick Yank, I’ve recently discovered how much fun my Brit brothers had with FF! So I discovered the FF intro rpg….AFF (original and new are great)….but…. Finding a small, short, simple, fun game that ‘clones’ the original FF game….Spellzard!… so I’ve fallen in total love with it as well! Cheers, man! Again…great vid! Super full! Great job! Thanks for it.

I am a big fan of OSE and am ‘porting my D&D game over to it.

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Excellent review. You've convinced me to buy it as my first RPG in 30 years!

So glad I decided to watch your video. I'm not a big fan of D&D in general, not being a fan of classes and levels, and preferring skill based, like Cyberpunk, Traveller, or RuneQuest. I've watched several videos on OSE specifically due to its reputation as THE OSR system because I've consistently heard 1st ed (AD&D and BECMI) as a rules light etc but you are the only person to make the case in a way that feels genuine. What I mean is that the lack of a core resolution mechanic always seemed super clunky to me, but you made me see the narrative beauty there, and now I see the simplicity I couldn't before. Fantastic.

I just bought Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy books yesterday... I am VERY impressed with this system and presentation. Looking forward to my print copies, but at least I have the PDFs for now until the books arrive. :-)

Awesome content! I saw a solution where in the second question they just used filter such that (a,_,_,d) where d > a which I believe makes it a bit more consice and probably a tiny bit faster but I'm a newbie in Rust so would love to hear your take

Enjoyed the video, think i am going to pick this up

Fantastic video!!! Thanks so much for doing this!

Nice insight that requiring the old races (for lack of a better term) to use their race for their class is a good way to have a more real feeling human dominated world. Generalizing you could say that the old races are set in their ways, so they have very tightly defined professions, with tightly defined skills or spells that do not change. Humans and any other young races can be any profession they can master and learn almost any skill or spell.

“Emergent Gameplay”: shit happens then we try to explain it.

When it comes to versatility, OSE Advanced is king, yes, it is good looking. But the possibility to a) combine race/class and b) multiclass sets it apart from other BX and BECMI clones. It is well designed, feels good in the hand (the digest hardcover formfactor...) and has important tables in the front of each book. Very nice. As far as I am concerned, OSE and OSE AF are great... I still prefer the RC and Oe though. But it conquered the bronze medal from Iron Falcon, so it is now my favorite Retro Clone...

This was AWESOME. Have you considered doing this for other games? Specially other OSR games. Like Adventurer conqueror king system or lamentations of the flame princess

You can have good design - or you can have Mork Borg.

Isnt OSE the same thing as B/X? Seems almost the same.

This is sincerely one of, if not THE, best video overview of OSE. Well done!

This review made me enjoy something I already owned even more 😀

this is the exact video that i was looking for. you did an great job telling me exactly what's in the book. thank you for taking the time to make this video!

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I wish I had watched this before I had started to "ease" into OSR with my players using 'O5R'....I enjoyed Five Torches Deep, but it seemed to please neither 5e people or old school people. I wish I had started with OSE as it was intended, and I look forward to running my first OSE game next week.

I hope you turn out to be right about this!

Great vid! Thanks!

Sorry about the audio in this one, should be better next time

those bitwise operators are really so enigmatic to me

nom has a really strange api method naming lol

you could've made 3 enum constructors but that would make it more verbose I guess. each constructor with it's magnitude

where does nom come from?

you are a monster in rust and problem solving. def subscribed

Thanks for posting this video. TIL tuple_windows in rust!

Great video, but it bothers me that you never fixed the test.

I'm pretty sure we first need to left shift and only then add bit. This should eliminate need in right shift afterwards

Your coding is very readable, I like it very much. Far from an imperative soup

Hello! since you are using windows, I see rust has a some sort of weird warning in windows like incremental compilation error, how do you go about it?

You deserve so many more likes and subscriptions!

Sorry but I prefer a lot of fighting encounters as most players enjoy that mechanic. If this is to be used as basic was meant to be run, then combat is a primary aspect of the game.

Brilliant look at a brilliant game. I'll be running OSE Advanced edition for my usual 5e group next week, using Death Frost Doom as the first adventure.

This is a great review, you’re very good at keeping a steady pace as you talk through the game aspects. Great job and keep the vids coming!

I read you blog a while ago (it's bookmarked and rss-ed), but I did not know that you had a TH-cam channel, too! Great stuff, I really like how you present things. If you want to do some more videos, I'll be happy. Thanks!

I went to check out the blog, and saw that i already had it bookmarked. Feels good.

I have been wanting to pick up everything for this for a while now but Necrotic Gnome/Exalted Funeral are always sold out. I found a guy online though that I just bought 9 books from and he is going to ship them out to me on Tuesday. I can hardly wait to get started!

Question: If you do not use your attribute modifiers all the time to do things in-game then what kinds of things do they apply to? I am a bit confused knowing how attribute modifiers in the game work. It seems they must be very situational. For instance, you do not get your DEX bonus every time you go to attack with a ranged weapon? That seems odd to me.

FANTASTIC overview and info on the OSE system! Thank you so much! I look forward to seeing more of your videos on OSE. You just earned a sub!

This is my first time seeing your content and I think you speak very clearly and your thoughts seem well organized. Thank you for this deep dive.

I'd love to see a break down like this for the advanced classes. I know people like to defend the thief, but I wish they weren't so terrible at dealing with treasure traps. At level 1, they only have a 10% chance to find the trap, and a second 10% roll has to be made to remove it. Assuming poison needle traps (a classic), they have a 40% chance to make the saving throw. That gives them a 54% chance of being killed the first time they encounter a trapped treasure chest. A halfling could just trigger the trap, and count on his awesome saving throw to keep him alive 65% of the time. In other words, the halfling survives 65% of the time, versus 46% for the thief. 10,000 XP later, the thief is level 5, the halfling is level 4. Thief now has a 30% chance to spot the trap, and survives the poison on a 12 or better (45%). That combines to give the thief a 61.5% chance to survive, still lower than the halfling at level 1. The level 4 halfling is trucking along and surviving with a saving throw roll of 6 or better, a 75% chance. I know that's not all there is to either class, but it just annoys me that the treasure hunter class is terrible at hunting for treasure. You're mathematically better off letting a halfling or dwarf blunder through every trap they find like Mr. Magoo.

OSR rules you should look at? If you like it all in one simple book, get Basic Fantasy that is 100% all free (yes, 100%), or printed as super low cost if you want a paper book. If you want more details and more like the old rules, flaws included, get Old School Essentials. Personally, I like Basic Fantasy. I don't like complexity, and BF is also totally free PDF digitally (not lying about that), and only cost the price of the paper to get a printed copy for just $5. However, then I found an even MORE rules light game called Pocket Fantasy. The entire rules fit on 4 pages, player stats are just 2 numbers (hit points and fighting skill) and a list of gear. All Dice rolls are just a single D6. It is great.

Haha i went through exactly this procedure, over a few weeks