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I think you are taking that to an extreme. Having different rules doesn't necessarily mean lots of things being restricted or cut (or...

It's good to know what your own requirements are so no one's time is wasted: not everyone is going to be a fit for every table. TTRPGs...

A killer DM can only exist in a game where there is a base level of lethality to enable it, but I've held consistently to the position...

I will agree that bad GMs, specifically in the "Killer GM" style, are most likely less common today than they once were, by simple dint...

My experience was with MERP and Rolemaster, but fairly closely matches this. The issue for us was that, not only was RM dangerous, the...

For the record, my position is and has consistently been that the sorts of bad GMs being discussed did exist, still exist, and can most...

I think people are arguing multiple things in the same thread. Whether such behavior happened. Here the burden is find an example, and...

I think you nailed it on both subjects. If a project is going to please fans (and here I mean people who love the earlier works), it has...

Many tables in the early days mooshed together original with Advanced. Many rules in Advanced were dropped or not noticed. Gary...

yeah, pretty sure some did, I just don’t think it was anywhere near as ubiquitous as some make it sound… I basically went with ‘I would...

no one thinks they were not used at all, the question is how widespread they were. I started playing with 1e and I never took to that...

I think there’s “presentism” there - one way to prove the present game is better is to diss the un-enlightened past, including straw man...

In fact, thanks to The Elusive Shift (which was incredibly well-researched), we know that there wasn't uniformity in playstyle. edit...

You said yourself, groups were siloed. That makes it pretty much impossible that there was any uniformity in play style. In effect there...

This is, I believe, an example of Hitchens's razor in action.