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I'm considered a grognard, since I play OD&D and First Ed AD&D before all other editions of the game at this point. I like New WoD games, RuneQuest II, Aces & Eight. I'm a BRP Call of Cthulhu guy, but I'm curious about Trail of Cthulhu in actual play, and I like CoC d20. I love Star Wars d6 and...

Consequently, there are features of older games that new games lack. Features which some people might still find today enjoyable. That there are trends of evolution in game design, nobody I think would deny it. That there is inherently more variety in games today for people to choose from is...

I'm what people call a grognard. I love OD&D and AD&D. I don't care for the most recent edition of the game. Here's the shocker: I love playing/running the New World of Darkness. I love what Mongoose did with RuneQuest II. Aces & Eights is a game made of Win. I posit that the only people...

LOL Epic thread. 1246 posts as of this moment.

I am a True Grognard, by which I mean, of course, that I am French, and happen to like vintage gaming. ;)

What I see is a hobby which, since its very infancy, has been empowering the user to craft his own materials and take possession of the games sold by game companies. RPGs are, in this respect, very particular products, since they support the user's worlds of imagination, which all but ensures a...

I am interested in discussion. I won't however catter to a specific subset of people who are way too sensitive and really should know better in the first place. There are those who will take the argument how it was intended or ask questions about what I meant, and those who will misunderstand...

It's fine. Just don't take my rebuttal too personally either, then. From where I'm standing, people just need to grow a thick skin. Failure is not some sort of irredeemable trait that dooms you for eternity. When I say "the DM fails", it means just that: it's a failure. Learn from your failure...

It's not. Good example. Yes, the DM fails in that example. If the DM is putting some kind of encounter that result in choices, die rolls and thus, a variety of outcomes from success to failure, and doesn't at least have an idea of the natural consequences of failure if it occurs, then he's...

As a player, I'll come up with a basic concept for the character. What's happening in the actual game as it is being played is what gradually constitutes the character's backstory. As a DM, I'll generally be comfortable with one to a few paragraphs/sentences.

OD&D. AD&D 1e. Hopefully RuneQuest and Mythus soon.

I've seen friends have particularly bad experiences with bad GMs, but they were generally smart enough to realize these were not problems with GMs in general, but rather problems with the particular people GMing at the time. Therefore, I've never had some problem from someone else running a game...

We played with Companions too (now I'm talking of the French Rolemaster of the 1990s. Must be RM2 by your reckoning, after I checked Wikipedia about this). Not at first, but later on, we did incorporate materials from them. We never had to houserule the game (choosing between options from...

What's good for you is good for you. I mean: who am I to tell you it doesn't work if it actually does, right? You then shouldn't project your own experience on other people. I ran Rolemaster and MERP as well, for instance. I can tell you, I never actually houseruled the game system, and didn't...

You are misinformed on two fronts, Rel: it is legal, and is in fact part of S&W's schtick to provide its rules in MS Word format for people to modify at their leisure (see fourth link after the first paragraph), and flyingcircus did post his link on the S&W forums a week ago, already. :)...

I don't play 4e. I don't adhere to the notion that the rules override the GM's common sense and rulings. It's the other way around, to me: The GM's common sense and rulings override the rules if need be. That's why you have a flesh and blood GM in the first place, someone who is able to make...

Basically. I use it for both OD&D and AD&D, yes.

I think the guy quoted in the OP is spot on. We are all too sensitive about criticism of our preferred systems or play styles, and that includes me as much as anybody else.

Quoted for Truth. This cannot be repeated enough. If there truly were a Player vs. DM challenge, the DM would win every single time. The DM has unlimited resources. There is no contest. This "Player vs. DM" frame of mind is based on an illusion of optic, a myth based on a false premise. Same...

Cool. If it attracts people to the hobby, it sure will make them sooner or later wish for varying gaming experiences. I'm not into 4e, but I'm likely to see a benefit from the game's exposure so... it's win-win, as far as I'm concerned.