A mini-rant re: Pathfinder and D&D

[SSquirrel]

It's also worth noting that many people use the term D&D broadly to encompass any number of rpgs that are neither 4e nor PF, simply because people associate the term with rpgs, which is perfectly fine.

Then again, I have a number of friends who refer to any kind of pop as Coke, even Pepsi. (Let's not start on the pop vs Soda vs Coke etc heh) Doing so just makes them sound weird to my ears, not correct I generally tell non-gamers that I play roleplaying games and then specify "you know, like D&D". Then if it's a non-D&D game I'll add that it's actually Vampire or Mage or RIFTS or Savage Worlds or Call of Cthulhu or whatever.

PF certainly comes from the D&D skeleton, but I don't call it D&D. I don't call Arcana Evolved D&D either and it's my favorite 3.x variant, I even prefer it to actual D&D 3.x. If I'm going to play a D&D variant at this point, I want it to be 4E, AE or I want to be playing a different game altogether.

We have a Savage Worlds fantasy game going while our main 4E game is on hold due to the DM being so busy w/grad school. Largely b/c no one else in the group could be conned into actually running a 4E game and I have a friend who is obsessed w/Savage Worlds, so I got him to run it. I don't tell people I'm playing D&D on Sundays tho, I tell them I'm playing Savage Worlds. What can I say, my dad was a lawyer, I grew up being very specific about things.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

As someone born and raised in Appalachia, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Which area, and when? This was circa 1969 or so, northern Kentucky.

I don't remember the name of the town, and my parents are no longer around to ask. My brother and sister had not yet been born. Not too far from Harlan, I'm pretty sure.

Coal mining country, once upon a time. The cemetery had more markers than there were people living in the town (and it wasn't that big a cemetery). The coal mine was still open, but only small time.

We were visiting one of my uncles, who was teaching at a university in the area.

What I remember best is the diner, which was made from a converted rail car - red gingham, red vinyl, red plastic. A name sort of like Rog's, I think.

Been forty years, a long time now.

Appalachia is a large area, but if any of that is familiar then I would be obliged.

The Auld Grump

 

[Aldarc]

Which area, and when? This was circa 1969 or so, northern Kentucky.

Western NC, and within 30 years.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Western NC, and within 30 years.

Ah well, I had hopes.

One thing that I remember is that what I expected from the people isn't what I got - I was expecting Hatfields & McCoys, but the folks were pretty nice, even though we were pretty obviously from New England. (My uncle had the worst Boston accent that I ever heard.)

But the language would trip me up, I don't think that I had encountered the word 'redd' before, and I think that I am the only person that I have met that uses it at all since. Beer may have come from 'root beer', but I do not know where redd came from. Swan also had an odd usage, sort of like 'I swear'.

I want to use the area for a game sometime, but my memory is just too foggy, and I was way too young.

The Auld Grump

 

[pemerton]

Someone seemed to think that PF was D&D.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Was it that wild & kra-Z weem?

 

[Desdichado]

Where "drinking you under the table" could have more than one meaning...'cause of the vampires.

With this one single post, the existence of this entire, mostly banal thread, is justified.

 

[MoxieFu]

Ah well, I had hopes.

One thing that I remember is that what I expected from the people isn't what I got - I was expecting Hatfields & McCoys, but the folks were pretty nice, even though we were pretty obviously from New England. (My uncle had the worst Boston accent that I ever heard.)

But the language would trip me up, I don't think that I had encountered the word 'redd' before, and I think that I am the only person that I have met that uses it at all since. Beer may have come from 'root beer', but I do not know where redd came from. Swan also had an odd usage, sort of like 'I swear'.

I want to use the area for a game sometime, but my memory is just too foggy, and I was way too young.

The Auld Grump

I wonder if they were referring to Ginger Beer. It's a soft drink made with lemons.