from the idiot said:There is a way to wring real creativity, and possibly even artistic merit, from this bizarre medium—and it has nothing to do with Gygax and his tradition of sociopathic storytelling. In the mid-1980s, right around the time that Gygax was selling off his company, Steve Jackson began publishing the Generic Universal Roleplaying System, or GURPS. Jackson's goal was to provide the rules to play games in any genre. More importantly, characters in this new system could be fleshed out down to the smallest detail, from a crippling phobia of snakes to a severe food allergy. And when it came to experience points, characters got whatever the "gamemaster" decided. They might earn points for succeeding at a given task or simply for playing their character in a compelling way. Of course, players could still take out their real-life bitterness in a fictional killing spree, and the game master might end up with a bumbling and incoherent story line. But GURPS created the potential for so much more...
See, the whole point of D&D in the early days was a set of loose rules that the DM could change. A more ridge set of rules would end up bogging down the game. I don't want to pick a fight with 3.5 versus 1st edition, but the additional rules, more at the higher levels, of 3.5 really bog things down. I haven't played GURPS, so I can't say it is the be all end all or a pile of crap, but one thing is for sure, you get out of D&D what you and the DM put into it.more quotes from the idiot said:Not that there are any rules for said chemical analysis, or for much of anything, really. Gygax wasn't much for the details. In the end, his games are a lot like his legacy: goofy, malformed, and fodder for a self-deprecating joke or two—before being shoved in the closet for good.
I don't like it either, but no one is above reproach. No matter how good or kind someone is in life there will always be people who spit on them in death. Such is the nature of evil.DM-Rocco said:My bad, sorry, I just lost me head. I'm kind of sick of all the bad mouthing of Gary.