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Originally Posted by Korgoth  I think those are very good points, Mr. Mearls, but you left one out: in Old School play, you don't handle with a roll what can be handled by common sense and description, such as searches, negotiations etc.
You don't get to roll your Int to 'solve' a riddle, or roll your Sense Motive to find out if the bad guy is lying to you. You have to figure out those things for yourself. |
... And that's one of the things of "old school gaming" that I don't miss at all
It reminds me of the world of video games. Many people (myself included) feel that modern video games get many times lost in having bigger explosions, killing the most prostitutes and rocking harder and don't remember that a video game was supposed to be fun to play. I'd play Tetris over the last FPS any time.
Yes, retro video games were more fun to play, but they also had crappy graphics and music. Those are not good things of retro video games. And I'd play the FFIII remake for DS over the original any time. Because it has the good things of being "retro", but it got rid of the bad ones.
And not having skills and relying on the player's descriptions amusing the DM enough falls short. Because rpgs are also about make-believe, about pretending to be someone you're not. And I don't want my ranger to be overshadowed by the bookwormy wizard in survival ability just because my friend Timmy is a boyscout and I'm not.
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