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This is a very strange thread for me. I have watched the video and think it would be a great game to play in. It is just my style. So where is the problem?:confused:

That their gaming style has changed. I run a 4e campaign and am what you call a lean back DM. In the original example as a player I would have enjoyed a good 30 minutes of planning. As a DM I would be trilled that they are immersed enough in the game to want to plan. I have always been this...

Here is a major problem with the question from my point of view. Which of the above are house rules and which are just your setting rules? No one complains about differences in races in published settings but they are listed as house rules in this quote. I prefer the minimum of house rules...

Quite true. I have never figured out what people meant by old school because I have seen several styles since the 1980. Several times they where being held up as a great example of old school in one thread and attacked as being just the opposite of old school in another. I would also add...

One of my favorites was a always clean diaper, or the cursed version - all ways full diaper.

I will second this. In an earlier thread I said that my daughter start role playing with us when she was 12. I was thinking this was true because she started with our regular group and had no problems with the rules (2e ranger). I was corrected she was 8, so 8 or even a 7 year won't have many...

For kids I would say either an older style (1/2e type) or 4e. Both are easier to learn and play then 3.x. World creation is simpler with both. While 4e is has a tighter requirement it has far better tools in the DDI that make it simple. The old style is far more forgiving and easier to...

First, I agree with using it as a hand out and not try and play it out. You must also remember the affect it will have on character classes. A Paladin would be in world of hurt unless she became one after the intro. Less so for clerics and other divine types. Monks and similar lawful types...

A daughter's responce... Okay stealing my dad's account for a minute... I grew up listening to my parents playing D&D, even sat on my mom's lap to help her role the dice. I was so excited when I could finally start playing and pretty much have been since. I've been through 2nd edition...

I meant the whole tech part. Higher gas mileage, Smart Cars, SUV's, ect. Right, but cultures don't do this forecasting well. If we did we would have put a lot more effort in the the space program for the last 30 years. We would have been looking for a replacement for gasoline (petrol) in...

No culture has ever been good at long range more then 5 year planning. Our personal focus is to short, but we stumble through any way. Now a days changes in technologies make it even harder. Example a what most consider a good period of 50 years for planning at the difference in just plain...

Kid;) I started in 80 at 22 so my parents did not have chance to play when I was a kid. :(

Great, it is also nice to know that I am not the only old foggy here.:cool:

So with all of these draw backs of which only a couple can be over come with technology why would people as a whole choose to give up paper. I think people are over reacting.

Somebody posted a thread about what parents think and got me thinking about this. How many of us have raised kids where mom and or daddy played table top RPG's continue to play after they have turned 20. Mine daughter who was born after we started is 25 now is still a member of my gaming...

I have played with the Harn Master system. It just give you the basic rules. It also requires the player create 3 spells before been considered a Master in the Guild. It was very difficult to use. You had to be careful to keep to elemental thinking not modern science and the rules had very...

True, but they also sell e-book formats, so I am not really sure how it all fits together. Question to every one: Why is it bad to transition from paper to e-books? I know lots of us older folks will not but my grand kids will grow up with e-books. Heck there is a small but growing effort to...

Correct it works for the products that can be delivered on line such as books. Other retailers have never done a study. Only published opinions. Bean is not the only one saying this method works for a limited group of products. It also works to a more limited version is found in software...

You need to study Beans Books data. They say and show numbers. E-copies given out on CD in the back of books that contain 10 or more novels is their method. They state right on the CD that you can copy and distribute with out copy right worries as long as there is no charge. The internet and...

WoW. You need to tell Baen Books because they give away free E copies of their books to increase their paper sells. Here is proof: baencd at the Fifth Imperium . Now how does my buy a paper book and not buying a Kendal reduce the market for paper books?