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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7295432" data-attributes="member: 6919838"><p>This is a odd note of history and more an aside than anything else but... </p><p></p><p>While i do not recall the text within the 2e core rulebooks verbatim for their initial release, i do very explicitly clearly remember the add campaign and posters that came out with the 2e first release... </p><p></p><p>"Real GMs go by the book." </p><p></p><p>That was full bold mega-print on many of the posters and other promotional materials for their core rule books initial 2e release. I recall it right there at the bookstore when i bought my first 2e books. I also remember thinking they misspelled "buy".</p><p></p><p>The reason for it was that leading up to that 1e had become so diverse, so scrambled and so riddled through with house rules for most every game that you found it rather difficult to go from one game to another without a tome of house rules to go thru. (Obviously that is slight hyperbole.) </p><p></p><p>A specific strategic objective for 2e was to reset to a standard that *was* used to bring together the gameplay across the sprectrum. </p><p></p><p>Now, of course, it was more a marketing and design approach than a truly achievable objective so its less like rule of law than a nod to trying to herd their cats, but it was there, it was very prominent and it was also (in my experience) very welcome by many.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7295432, member: 6919838"] This is a odd note of history and more an aside than anything else but... While i do not recall the text within the 2e core rulebooks verbatim for their initial release, i do very explicitly clearly remember the add campaign and posters that came out with the 2e first release... "Real GMs go by the book." That was full bold mega-print on many of the posters and other promotional materials for their core rule books initial 2e release. I recall it right there at the bookstore when i bought my first 2e books. I also remember thinking they misspelled "buy". The reason for it was that leading up to that 1e had become so diverse, so scrambled and so riddled through with house rules for most every game that you found it rather difficult to go from one game to another without a tome of house rules to go thru. (Obviously that is slight hyperbole.) A specific strategic objective for 2e was to reset to a standard that *was* used to bring together the gameplay across the sprectrum. Now, of course, it was more a marketing and design approach than a truly achievable objective so its less like rule of law than a nod to trying to herd their cats, but it was there, it was very prominent and it was also (in my experience) very welcome by many. [/QUOTE]
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