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None of these terms are "more accurate". Nothing makes me grit my teeth on a message board more than "I just don't think these are helpful terms". Attempts to control content and meaning in this manner are....offensive. I have seen the argument about "better", "more accurate", "less...

The burden of proof is equal on both sides. Whether a statement is an affirmative or a negative depends largely on framing, rather than content. "There is no difference" is as affirmative of a statement as "There is a difference". By choosing framing, and by claiming that the burden lies...

That probably makes two of us. I do not think that your (i) to (iii) mark a significant difference between narrativist and simulationist play.....possibly not a difference at all. Perhaps there is no such thing as a difference between the two, apart from the degree to which the GM mitigates...

If you say "I don't like strawberries", I can take you at your word, or I can look to see if there are extenuating circumstances that might make you say that now (even if untrue), and I can look to your past behaviour to see if it is consistent with the statement. Nothing about that requires...

Okay, then. Railroader. That's a bad term in my book. When I say it, I am definitely not going to affect a scandalized tone and say, "Oh, I don't mean anything bad by that." I am not "prejudiced" about railroading, because I am not "pre-judging" anything. I am being judicious about...

There is nothing wrong whatsoever with being judicious. You have limited time to play, and you are allowed to make value judgements. So long as you know that said judgements are subjective, there is nothing wrong with them. You do not have to see why Bob likes X to accept that he does...

That's the point I suggested in my blog as well (Raven Crowking's Nest). RC

I would modify this somewhat. There is nothing wrong, in either school, about saying "Hey! Let's run through G1-3!" The difference is, in the old school, the DM had to be upfront that he was running only a limited campaign milieu, because that wasn't the general expectation. In the new...

Obviously, a newer player could try to play those games, and thus could have the same type of experience. But imagining that there is no difference between 1e and 4e (for example) requires too much willful blindness for me to be able to do it! :lol: Personally, I'm pretty easy about inviting...

If time has not changed the aggregate behaviors of GMs and gamers in respect to style, pray tell why you think the issue originates with old DMs? Why would it not originate with the "kids"? Why would there be a time differencial like that at all? No, your conclusion simply doesn't match your...

Or, perhaps, if it made sense, it would be so. See The Shaman's many postings about how he uses random encounters to simulate the common trope of coincidence within a genre framework. If you had meant that the difference was that your the GM is not going to "gotcha" the player delimits the...

For one thing, I don't use the Delve Format. :uhoh: I don't start with the assumption that the monsters are going to be located at exactly spots X, Y, and Z, no matter what the PCs do. Nor do I assume that the encounters will occur in a specific order, or at all, no matter what the PCs do. I...

I see where you are coming from, but the presentation of the 4e modules (or the late 3e Delve Format modules) seems a lot less old-school friendly. Likewise, I have heard of people having difficulty changing 1e modules to work with 4e. Obviously, you can ignore what is written in the module; I...

:lol: I'll have gotten what I wanted? :lol: I very much doubt that I'll get what I want from WotC! I'm actually working on a "perfect system" for my own DMing style. And, while it is taking me far longer than I thought it would, I imagine that it will be in a final form long before 5e is...

the Jester: Are you running the material as presented? It doesn't sound like it. Reading KotTW, it seems to me that you are supposed to present the encounters in a specific way, and in a specific order. If you are not doing so, I would qualify that as a major change. If you are not doing...

Don't you mean "stuffedpack donkeyhorse"? :p Agree. Nope. Doesn't make you a "kid"; just makes you a member of the target audience! I suspect you're going to be disappointed. A fractured player base may not mean a lot to you, but it probably does mean a lot to a business model. All...

This assumes (1) that the presentation is negligible when determining emphasis and approach to material, and (2) Bullgrit's presentation/summary of the module doesn't constitute a "change of content" as to what is actually in the module. Remove those two assumptions, and Bullgrit's point is not...

It's not a consequence of new evolutions: The WotC marketing survey while designing 3e indicated that people who use minis spend a lot more on rpg materials than those who do not. As a consequence, it isn't difficult to understand why 3.5 was more mini-centric than 3e, or why 4e is much more...

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More importantly, the designers pegged long combat time early on as a problem with 3e (i.e., something maladaptive) and made eliminating it a stated objective. However, as the design process went on, they changed their mind in order to accomodate other design goals. Now, there is nothing...