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Is a more OD&D feel game the natural evolutionary endpoint? Is OD&D actually AD&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4740457" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>I think it really has to do with the fact that Gary's assumptions about D&D in the early days were wrong when the game started to sell. He thought people would play it as an add-on to wargames, and what happened is that there were lots of non-wargamers who had to work with a loose set of rules that were to them incomplete. So everyone made up their own work arounds, which might have been simple, and people were playing radically different games, which led to the creation AD&D (though many of Gary's motives were probably based on tournament play too).</p><p></p><p> I've read .pdfs of the original three booklets, and I'd never be able to run them out of the box, since I'd need the Chainmail rules for combat. I'd end up turning to my experience with later editions for guidance, and I figure it would just be easier for me to run a game under 2e or 3e rules anyway. Anyway, I'm kind of setting up a world that's meant for more open, sandbox play these days. Instead of focusing on the big epic storyline, that can so easily get derailed with an untimely villain death or unexpected TPK, I'm just setting up a setting for the PCs to do as they wish. I think that sort of world-building lends itself better to a sword and sorcery feel, and I don't think it really matters if one's running the game with OD&D, 4e, or anything inbetween.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 4740457, member: 8863"] I think it really has to do with the fact that Gary's assumptions about D&D in the early days were wrong when the game started to sell. He thought people would play it as an add-on to wargames, and what happened is that there were lots of non-wargamers who had to work with a loose set of rules that were to them incomplete. So everyone made up their own work arounds, which might have been simple, and people were playing radically different games, which led to the creation AD&D (though many of Gary's motives were probably based on tournament play too). I've read .pdfs of the original three booklets, and I'd never be able to run them out of the box, since I'd need the Chainmail rules for combat. I'd end up turning to my experience with later editions for guidance, and I figure it would just be easier for me to run a game under 2e or 3e rules anyway. Anyway, I'm kind of setting up a world that's meant for more open, sandbox play these days. Instead of focusing on the big epic storyline, that can so easily get derailed with an untimely villain death or unexpected TPK, I'm just setting up a setting for the PCs to do as they wish. I think that sort of world-building lends itself better to a sword and sorcery feel, and I don't think it really matters if one's running the game with OD&D, 4e, or anything inbetween. [/QUOTE]
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