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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5809416" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>It's nice to know that those of us who hated the "buff everything out the max, using a spread sheet, to handle the inevitable dispels--only to see the whole thing blow up in 2 rounds anyway, due to save and die"--didn't have our playstyle dictated to us in high-level 3E. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p> </p><p>That caveat noted, I agree with the larger point. Indeed, I would change it to "since AD&D first came down the pike." It is has been obvious in many of the discussons thus far that one of the biggest objections that some people have to modularity is that the game will no longer dictate styles. Apparently, this is not only important to them for their own games, but extends to other tables--as if the way we are pretending to be an elf over here affects the quality of them being an elf over there. </p><p> </p><p>That's also a separate issue for those with the "My Fair Lady" problem*. They don't care how the mechanics works, as long as the style they want is in there and labeled properly--according to them. </p><p> </p><p>* An aside in a song on language--"Actually, the French don't care what you do, as long as you pronounce it properly."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5809416, member: 54877"] It's nice to know that those of us who hated the "buff everything out the max, using a spread sheet, to handle the inevitable dispels--only to see the whole thing blow up in 2 rounds anyway, due to save and die"--didn't have our playstyle dictated to us in high-level 3E. :p That caveat noted, I agree with the larger point. Indeed, I would change it to "since AD&D first came down the pike." It is has been obvious in many of the discussons thus far that one of the biggest objections that some people have to modularity is that the game will no longer dictate styles. Apparently, this is not only important to them for their own games, but extends to other tables--as if the way we are pretending to be an elf over here affects the quality of them being an elf over there. That's also a separate issue for those with the "My Fair Lady" problem*. They don't care how the mechanics works, as long as the style they want is in there and labeled properly--according to them. * An aside in a song on language--"Actually, the French don't care what you do, as long as you pronounce it properly." [/QUOTE]
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