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The Armchair Gamer's flavors of D&D

Started by The Butcher, September 28, 2014, 01:53:05 PM

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#30
October 02, 2014, 05:38:07 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;789683All of the above, in differing doses.  As someone pointed out, these aren't really exclusive, and if you play a full multi-year-long campaign odds are the gaming group will move gradually from one style to another.

  All of them? Really? I would have thought P&P and Sp&Si would bear the Mark of the Swine at least.  ;)

crkrueger

#31
October 02, 2014, 06:44:32 PM
If "Spell and Sim" is supposed to be like Harnmaster and Rolemaster, and that's supposed to be "what 3e turned into out in the wild"...

Sweet Jesus Fuck do you know absolutely nothing about Harnmaster, Rolemaster, or "Rules as Physics Engine" systems, none of which are close to 3.5 in the wild, which was Grids & Gishes, CR & CharOp, or whatever.
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#32
October 03, 2014, 03:26:48 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;789788If "Spell and Sim" is supposed to be like Harnmaster and Rolemaster, and that's supposed to be "what 3e turned into out in the wild"...

Sweet Jesus Fuck do you know absolutely nothing about Harnmaster, Rolemaster, or "Rules as Physics Engine" systems, none of which are close to 3.5 in the wild, which was Grids & Gishes, CR & CharOp, or whatever.

This is what they have in common: They crawled so deep up their own arses they found themselves coming back out the mouth again.
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#33
October 04, 2014, 04:41:32 AM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;789783All of them? Really? I would have thought P&P and Sp&Si would bear the Mark of the Swine at least.  ;)

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what these terms are meant to refer to? I mean, they were put up as category with no explanation in the OP, so basically people voting just had to guess as to what the fuck they're supposed to mean.
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#34
October 04, 2014, 10:25:58 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;790068Maybe I'm misinterpreting what these terms are meant to refer to? I mean, they were put up as category with no explanation in the OP, so basically people voting just had to guess as to what the fuck they're supposed to mean.

Yeah, because God forbid anyone click on a link, ever.

Especially one preceded by "go read it."

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#35
October 04, 2014, 02:54:11 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;790116Yeah, because God forbid anyone click on a link, ever.

Especially one preceded by "go read it."

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#36
October 04, 2014, 06:42:25 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;790170Men of higher wisdom like the RPG Pundit are freed from the basic necessities of research to know what they're talking about, just as they are cut off from common pleasures. Theirs is a high and lonely destiny.

Being a feeble-brained simpleton given to the ungentlemanly habits of curiosity and checking one's sources, I am unable to relate.
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