tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post4782808612657410608..comments2024-03-22T17:20:40.789+00:00Comments on Trollish Delver: What does your favourite edition of D&D say about you?Scott Malthousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028866803584444828noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-25382664227246747652011-06-16T12:40:32.940+01:002011-06-16T12:40:32.940+01:00OD&D'er here. Yup! Just right. Except y...OD&D'er here. Yup! Just right. Except you missed one big group: Homebrewers. We are the guys who in the OD&D days made our own variant rules and have been playing them ever since. I suspect there are more than a few of us out here somewhere... :)vbwyrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14031787268876015417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-68551767366330524952011-06-16T04:03:24.232+01:002011-06-16T04:03:24.232+01:00Back in the day we had house-ruled D&D with pr...Back in the day we had house-ruled D&D with pre-Rolemaster, Arms Law. I guess our DM liked all of those charts.<br /><br />So what does that make me?<br /><br />By the time that group had added Fiend Folio and Unearthed Arcana, I had moved onto The Fantasy Trip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-30117154289921063872011-06-15T21:28:02.345+01:002011-06-15T21:28:02.345+01:00(As a side note, I apologize, and it's not rea...(As a side note, I apologize, and it's not really your article I am upset at. Although I think the 'fluff-less' embodiment of 'classic' D&D is a charm that I got back very briefly in the following rant)<br /><br />I take exception to your definition of "Not one for Fluff" on the 4E. It is true, I am not one for fluff. However, that is because I don't want a game system defining things for me.<br /><br />For example, Lizardmen. If you are playing D&D since at least the release of the Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh, you have been shoehorned into having Lizardmen as Swamp Dwellers. Every edition of the game, from 2nd edition forward, has stuck them into the swamps. This has always made no sense to me. To me, Lizards are desert creatures. They should be out there in the hot wastes, not out in sticky swamps.<br /><br />I would rather *these* kinds of things be left blank. I don't want you to describe the world for me. I want to describe it myself. This is why I learned to hate Forgotten Realms with a passion, because in order to do anything, I had to deprogram everyone of things that were published, and they were published EVERYWHERE. I don't need a book telling me every single market in a city. Let me make my own city.<br /><br />That is why, until about PHB3/MM3(4E) I really had liked 4E, because they didn't DO that with the edition... and then it all started to creep back into the main books again, instead of sticking to Ecology of sections of Dragon, where I feel it belongs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-21523100539262657142011-06-15T21:03:39.922+01:002011-06-15T21:03:39.922+01:00LOL -- you've got me pegged. I'm a "...LOL -- you've got me pegged. I'm a "Moldvay/Cook 'Classical D&D'" person, and I'd say your description is pretty accurate. :)Chris C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655640273250716377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-33205982520200018892011-06-15T20:25:46.086+01:002011-06-15T20:25:46.086+01:00*Big grin**Big grin*Billiam Babblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11504438538787804477noreply@blogger.com