Magnolia Keep

    One of the central maxims of the OSR is that the answer is not on your character sheet. "Builds" as such aren't really a thing, between games offering random stat generation, extremely frontloaded classes with fairly minor abilities in the grand scheme of things, and so on. Early editions of Dungeons and Dragons were much the same, though by the 80s we're beginning to see options for things like "Nonweapon proficiencies" that would eventually be the skill system we know and love* today. Now I'll confess, as I always do, that I'm an optimizer at heart, and the term player skill  makes my hair stand on end . The "most powerful class" tends to be the spellcaster, simply because they're the ones that have the most options to Just Do Things that the rules say they can do, regardless of an individual referee's interpretations of the rules;  Magic Missile will always do the same amount of damage, etc. So imagine my surprise when, in th...