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Favorite (currently): The Wilderlands Runner Up (currently): The Scarred Lands There is just something about those dark, oppressive settings. :)

Low Life is a fantastic setting, and like someone mentioned earlier, one I'd love to run but I'm not sure I could do justice as a DM. Its far more creative a setting than I am a DM. :) I keep hoping someone in my group will run it, but I suspect if I'm ever going to play, it will be as a DM or...

Wow, I'm amazed the thread has gotten this far with such positivity. Nicely done. :) I'm with you. We switched to Savage Worlds a few years ago, and are now experimenting with Castles & Crusades, for many of the reasons you listed (and others you didn't). And I don't see 4x fixing those issues...

That is what the section on ability scores says, and played that way it definitely speeds things up and adds a level of competence to 1st level characters that seems often lacking in d20 games. Only on actions where there is a real question about success should the characters make a roll.

Your experience clearly colors your entire perception of the game (as anyone who has ever read any post of yours about 1e or similar games can attest). And I doubt anyone will try to argue you out of feeling that you didn't have fun. (I don't think I would have either, given your descriptions.)...

Some companies - Pinnacle Inc (makers of Savage Worlds) for example - explicitly put a statement to this effect on the cover page of their PDFs. For example, "This file may be printed for personal use. Do not distribute."

Isn't that simply an example of DM fiat? Or otherwise stated, are you saying that its okay if the DM breaks the rules, only if its in the character's favor?

And here's an additional thought: perhaps you should just considering game more with good DMs, rather than constantly whinging about the bad ones? Its too bad that is how you see it, although I suspect this is more colored by your agenda than any real facts. The loss is not of unquestioned...

Thirded.

Between a number of us we had three different "Basic" boxed sets - and I don't recall noticing much of a difference in them, back then. :) We migrated to AD&D fairly quickly, though. I played 1e for over a decade. Bailed from the hobby for almost a decade more, got into 3x for a few years, then...

QFT. I can think of a number of folks who post here regularly who seem to have been seriously traumatized by some bad DMing, and who view anything related to old school gaming or DM fiat with what can only be characterized as pathological hate. Of course, many of them seem to display the same...

Yeah, sounds like the Wilderlands to me.

I too am a big fan of the Wilderlands and of the Scarred Lands, for different reasons. The Scarred Lands has a great mythology, and as someone mentioned, its nicely internally consistent. The supplements, for the most part, are damn good. The Wilderlands is simply the best "points of light"...

Well, house rule is the term I'm objecting to, as is the characterization that - out of the box - C&C doesn't support the ability to do feat like actions. The rules clearly define the process on how to handle actions players would like to take that aren't detailed elsewhere. Its that simple...

You mean like comments about intellectual honesty? It is doublespeak in that the entire SIEGE system, once again (please pay attention) is based off DM adjudication - and that system is designed to cover everything from relatively mundane tasks such as swimming to swinging on a rope to more...

I think lack of backwards compatibility, in this case (as in many) is a plus. The Singularity OS example is a good one. Another are VOIP phone systems. A lot of the big name PBX brands have to worry about backwards compatibility with their older analog systems. There are some new VOIP PBXes...

That is the biggest pile of doublespeak I've read in a good long while (and since I've been reading way too many contracts lately, that is saying something). By your definition - ie, "the rules tell you how to do it but don't cover every exact permutation, so if you use the rules as written to...

I think different people would have different reactions, all credible (people do ... strange things, after all), and you should the NPCs do whatever you think is most appropriate for the game. :)

So has the anti-evangelism. Its like the Troll Lords killed y'alls dogs or something. RAW, C&C has a mechanic for performing player-defined actions with a difficultly level as defined by the DM, and has a few pages in the rules explaining how that mechanic works and examples of in-game...

Ours are usually 4 hours, from 8-midnight on Fridays. Sadly, I wouldn't call them weekly sessions. :(