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2e, the most lethal edition?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7637176" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Once again, because how people play is subjective, in order to have an objective analysis, you have to evaluate based on how it was designed, and what the rules were as written. Those modules you're talking about were designed for tournament use (and the point of tournaments was to be extra deadly because of how scoring was done). They were not designed as a standard home dungeon crawl. Because many people used them that way doesn't change the fact that the game wasn't designed that way. </p><p></p><p>Besides, that's a moot point anyway, because 2e was designed for people to use all of those same modules in 2e. It's why 2e didn't have nearly as many modules but focused on campaign settings. And why 2e had THAC0 instead of ascending AC. Steve Winter himself admitted in an interview why they didn't use ascending AC was because their design goal was to allow people who had all this 1e stuff to keep using it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7637176, member: 15700"] Once again, because how people play is subjective, in order to have an objective analysis, you have to evaluate based on how it was designed, and what the rules were as written. Those modules you're talking about were designed for tournament use (and the point of tournaments was to be extra deadly because of how scoring was done). They were not designed as a standard home dungeon crawl. Because many people used them that way doesn't change the fact that the game wasn't designed that way. Besides, that's a moot point anyway, because 2e was designed for people to use all of those same modules in 2e. It's why 2e didn't have nearly as many modules but focused on campaign settings. And why 2e had THAC0 instead of ascending AC. Steve Winter himself admitted in an interview why they didn't use ascending AC was because their design goal was to allow people who had all this 1e stuff to keep using it. [/QUOTE]
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