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By the time you hit 2e, no. But there absolutely 100% was a functional difference between what oD&D called a Referee and a Storyteller...
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I obviously prefer games built around vision where everyone (including the GM) feels like they are playing the same game. I think that...
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I'm proposing a definition of what "modern" (or, rather, "modernization") means in a thread about finding a definition of "modern". My...
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Notoriously, they stay by the door of the dungeon and never disappear or get eaten, right alongside those horses PCs buy and forget once...
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I think you are misunderstanding me: what I'm saying is other way around. Better = modern. Modern [X] is better than Old [X], because...
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Broadly I think it's something to be avoided, if possible. If something can be modeled within the existing general rules, creating a...
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I'm on the side that thinks that OD&D (and Gygax's AD&D, at least up until the end of the PHB and for good chunks of the DMG) had a...
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I'm not terribly familiar with AD&D, so, yeah, sure! Quite often good ideas are old, and then get replaced by bad ideas, and return back...
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