[geeks] D&D 4e is here

[Phil Stracchino]

jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:57:39AM -0700, Nadine Miller wrote:
>> Couldn't agree more.  Having spent a large part of my game convention  
>> time wading through people who confuse role-playing with pushing  
>> miniatures around on a map ala "D&D", I'll stick to the margins with  
>> games strongly oriented towards role-play like Eden's stuff (e.g.  
>> Witchcraft, etc.), GOO's Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne, a little  
>> known space opera-ish thing, and Warhammer (1e, preferrably, but I'll  
>> play 2e with the right house rules).
> 
> I've never been a convention gamer, so I probably have a different 
> perspective. I've played some rules-light games that bog down in rules
> lawyering, DM fiat, and general unpleasantness. I've also played
> extremely fun games of Rifts, with no power-gaming, rules-lawyering,
> etc. 

The group I used to play with used to joke that we played AAD&D.  We
used the rules as a *basis*, built new rules on top of'em, and a lot of
the time we just winged it.

(The first major changes we made to the rules were to ditch all the
memorization nonsense and replace it with a mana-based spellcasting
system, and then we replaced the combat system with a D100-based one
that used a couple of simple but *consistent* rules instead of fifteen
different arbitrarily-bodged-together tables.  Sure, we printed out the
resulting tables, for reference, but you could do all the required math
in your head in about five seconds.)


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