I am OSR because I resist the idea that good/evil doesn’t matter. My monsters remain monsters, not half-monsters that can be ‘good’ (i.e. a monster in the FF or MM cannot be a PC). My players and/or party must remain Tolkien-esque. Orcs are bad. Elves are good. My heroes are heroic, not flawed.

The party works toward a mutual goal, not disparate agendas. I despise the overblown dramatics of the newer groups. That’s not RP in my opinion, it’s creative acting, but not confined to the sheet as written. I find “background” to be irrelevant. It should be forging bonds with each other, not an agenda.