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PCs vs the 15' wall, a D&D Edition retrospective
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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6925104" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>It isn't the edition - it's how YOU play it. Even 4E you can handle the wall and the kobolds with the same <em>approach to the game overall</em> as you would in the 1E example - if you want to. If you just want to treat it as a mindless application of stilted rules in a game of tactics, you can do that in 1E too. It's not quite the Stormwind Fallacy, but it's perhaps related. It is true that a particular edition may promote certain playstyles by the very nature of it's rules (especially combat rules), but that doesn't limit gameplay to one and only one approach. Therefore you have to tread lightly when giving a list like this because it is virtually never an objective assessment of how one edition promotes certain gameplay styles over another, but a presentation of <em>personal</em> preferences and biases regarding various editions, and people react STRONGLY to... suggestions that an edition they prefer is being dissed, even if it's not meant that way.</p><p></p><p>That said, _I_ wouldn't disagree too strongly with your assessments. But that's just ME.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6925104, member: 32740"] It isn't the edition - it's how YOU play it. Even 4E you can handle the wall and the kobolds with the same [I]approach to the game overall[/I] as you would in the 1E example - if you want to. If you just want to treat it as a mindless application of stilted rules in a game of tactics, you can do that in 1E too. It's not quite the Stormwind Fallacy, but it's perhaps related. It is true that a particular edition may promote certain playstyles by the very nature of it's rules (especially combat rules), but that doesn't limit gameplay to one and only one approach. Therefore you have to tread lightly when giving a list like this because it is virtually never an objective assessment of how one edition promotes certain gameplay styles over another, but a presentation of [I]personal[/I] preferences and biases regarding various editions, and people react STRONGLY to... suggestions that an edition they prefer is being dissed, even if it's not meant that way. That said, _I_ wouldn't disagree too strongly with your assessments. But that's just ME. [/QUOTE]
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