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Hindsight always has the benefit of 20-20 vision. Looking at gaming today it’s easy to assume that the invention of roleplaying games was inevitable, but history says otherwise. The components of RPGs – story-telling, characterisation, drama, and games of strategy and randomised numbers - have...

That's true, but debate is difficult without labels. If only the labels were universal. From what I've seen, in one trench there's a tiny clique of older gamers who want "old school"* to be a rigidly defined gaming philosophy which must be quarantined and guarded from contemporary ideas about...

I think that's the pr0nographic setting they've got planned for 5E.

Dragonlance. 4E already features de facto kender and reheated draconians. It's a natural fit.

I tagged halflings, but obviously I mean hobbits, and not the giant elfling monstrosities of 4E.

That severely understates the time and system knowledge required to select skills and feats, as compared to the "roll and/or pick one" nature of the other elements, and it gets even worse if a player intends to take a PrC later.

It does look cool. Are the pieces generic enough to use in other game systems?

That's an overused and redundant example. I've never seen a single group that didn't recognise the silliness of that and rule it out. That's a far cry from the current model of "if it's in the rules it must be essential to the maths, so we can't take it out".

I just started reading Jack Vance. I'm through the Cugel books and into Magnus Ridolph. I got the nostalgia in reverse: "ah, so this is what OD&D was based on when I played it!"

What coloured?

I pray to the gods of comedy that he didn't.

What I'm thinking of is something more visually oriented than conventional RPGs. So, big, colourful character sheets, counters and toy-like objects to represent stats and abilities etc. More toward the Talisman style of representation. And more than actual games, I'm thinking of accesory...

It's far past bedtime in my world, but I want to (prematurely) congratulate the indefatiguable Ariosto on his 1000 posts in a frighteningly short span of time. Well done.

It's relevant, unless you want to be the one to tell the players that an unarmoured pirate was Godzilla because of his bracers, and not hand out the items when he's dead! Previous editions had the internal consistency to account for things like boosted stats and healing magics, which is why 4E...

Sigworthy.

And I, as a roleplayer and wargamer, like to combine them! I really like the visual representation of characters and combat. That said, I'm not a fan of 4E at all, because it focusses wholly on the miniatures and rules at the expense of imagination.

I don't, because the singular is "die". I'd rather the authors didn't embarrass themselves with those sorts of errors.

I, however, was permitted. A great post.

Forked from: No 5e threads for now, please I've always thought it would be a great idea to have a non-violent, more "cutesy" D&D edition for children. The elements are all there: gnomes, trolls, pixies, halflings, toy soldiers, magic and big adventures... If it was supported by colourful...

Right. I don't use smilies on principle, which can make it uncertain sometimes.