Tired of D&D 5.74? Here's a cool old school rpg from my childhood that can fix it.

You may know me for being an OSR (Open Strategic Resources) blogger, a section of the TTRPG hobby that focuses on games that call back to earlier editions of Dungeons and Dragons. Recently I found an Ebay listing (costing around $2000) on for a copy of an old game from my childhood. This game came in a box set, unfortunately I lost the box while moving. It has some things that are sorely missed in an age of Dr Who Artilocks and Spongebob omni classes. It was more grounded, being a game of heroic fantasy. It had no crit chains and success percentages. Instead it had "Advantage" and "Disadvantage". It only had 20 levels and you had much less choice in abilities. Kids today would be bored out of their minds! Character creation was so simple. In an hour you could create a complete character. Pick your species, background, class and equipment. Maybe a subclass and spells depending on your choices. The old lady gave me a set of her physical dice You had so much contro...