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<blockquote data-quote="Sage Genesis" data-source="post: 6241583" data-attributes="member: 6706099"><p>I started with AD&D myself and somewhat recently got into an AD&D game with a few people who started with 3e. What I'm about to describe is not speaking for myself but on their behalf.</p><p></p><p>Their responses were something like this:</p><p>"What the f*** is this s***?! You guys really played this? How does this even work? Why are the rules for initiative, surprise, and skill checks so completely different? What are these saving throw categories all about? Why is Dexterity 7 and Dexterity 14 essentially the same thing (for non-thieves)?"</p><p></p><p>For them it wasn't like visiting an old folks' home where the play big band... it was more like visiting an old folks' home where they play '40s German nationalistic songs. Not just strange, but <em>wrong</em> somehow.</p><p></p><p>I tried to explain to them how it all evolved into that situation but I have to admit that most of these things were just stuff you had to accept and know, you couldn't really deduce them from the rest of the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sage Genesis, post: 6241583, member: 6706099"] I started with AD&D myself and somewhat recently got into an AD&D game with a few people who started with 3e. What I'm about to describe is not speaking for myself but on their behalf. Their responses were something like this: "What the f*** is this s***?! You guys really played this? How does this even work? Why are the rules for initiative, surprise, and skill checks so completely different? What are these saving throw categories all about? Why is Dexterity 7 and Dexterity 14 essentially the same thing (for non-thieves)?" For them it wasn't like visiting an old folks' home where the play big band... it was more like visiting an old folks' home where they play '40s German nationalistic songs. Not just strange, but [i]wrong[/i] somehow. I tried to explain to them how it all evolved into that situation but I have to admit that most of these things were just stuff you had to accept and know, you couldn't really deduce them from the rest of the system. [/QUOTE]
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