tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post308666277236239736..comments2024-02-27T01:17:39.925-08:00Comments on The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: The Past Few Years Have Been WastedTalysmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-77249915637096135292015-03-04T21:30:21.712-08:002015-03-04T21:30:21.712-08:00Thanks!Thanks!Talysmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-38788401891974298692015-03-04T21:06:51.137-08:002015-03-04T21:06:51.137-08:00I thought this post was really good so I added a l...I thought this post was really good so I added a link to it in my Best Reads of the Week series. You can check it out at this link below if you'd like.<br /><br />http://dyverscampaign.blogspot.com/2015/03/best-reads-of-week-february-22-28-2015.htmlDyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-9682435519163649112015-02-26T07:50:48.819-08:002015-02-26T07:50:48.819-08:00w00t!w00t!Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15278656911112153722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-54735501959076753022015-02-26T07:08:57.376-08:002015-02-26T07:08:57.376-08:00Yuppers a lot of payers treated rules that made so...Yuppers a lot of payers treated rules that made some classses and skill/feat options really good at something as if it were a prohibit6ion against actions for characters that did not have the choice skill/feat options.JDsivrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674833512849495283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-32578606929865250942015-02-26T05:49:52.570-08:002015-02-26T05:49:52.570-08:00Many early modules contained rules for when the pl...Many early modules contained rules for when the players attempted something not codified in the books, that it was obvious that they were going to attempt. That these ideas were not always consistent has been a regular complaint from those who embrace the newer school design ethos.<br /><br />That said, I think that ProfessorOats is correct. I do not think that 3e was intended to change the game as it did for many; I believe that was an unintentional consequence of the design, which WotC increasingly embraced until poor response to 4e made them reconsider optimal game play.ravencrowkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315630554847698555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-43618453390067076912015-02-25T22:28:57.161-08:002015-02-25T22:28:57.161-08:00Old school has no meaning to me. OSR is a cover bl...Old school has no meaning to me. OSR is a cover blurb. Retroclones well... Rarely do. I just like to think about and play games and to hell with all the sloganeering. Scott Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067161332003628237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239577512598038009.post-65402100754498255292015-02-25T19:24:59.221-08:002015-02-25T19:24:59.221-08:00Old-school in this case being the early 2000s :p
...Old-school in this case being the early 2000s :p<br /><br />Seriously, even though the 3e books made it clear that this wasn't the case, the community seemed to act like that's how things worked. Same with rulings. The books encouraged them (even if they did codify quite a few as rules and reduced some rulings to abstract exercises in mathematics), yet by 2003, everyone acted like it's something you just don't do. For people who obsessed over the letter of the rules, they don't seem to have actually read them<br /><br />Thinking of that as the old-school approach would certainly go a long way in explaining why some people don't like older editions. You'd hardly be able to do much of anything in OD&D, and quite a bit of the game would be either unfair or boringHolly Oatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01703437987958922954noreply@blogger.com