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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3399630" data-attributes="member: 3608">I've read things, however, that asserted that a certain percentage of empty rooms is a vital to good dungeon design. I can't say that I recall a reason for this, though.I'm not convinced this is a bad thing.After some thought, I'm liking this analogy.What the IF world calls "guess the verb".Right. The appeal of RPGs to me is, I believe, very similar to what I enjoy about computer text adventures or Choose Your Own Adventure books. The big difference being the DM being a person instead of a computer or a book. RPGs are, for me, the perfect text adventure.So, when I am DM, I must be open to the players' looking for unexpected solutions. Heck, I often set up situations in which I don't even have any idea of how the players "should" handle it. I want to see what they'll come up with. (Which later frustrates some players when they ask me what they "should" have done.)This is why I can enjoy freeform role-playing. It doesn't bother me if there are basically no rules that govern whether my actions succeed or fail. Just as long as anything I feel my PC could do isn't blocked & the results don't fall too far from why expectations.In fact, probably the times that the results have fallen farthest from my expectation have been when my PC's success was primarily governed by rules. Likewise, I don't like it when DMs refuse to allow my PC to do something I think is reasonable with no explaination beyond saying the rules don't allow it.Getting back to edition & play style. If you try to play earlier editions of (A)D&D in a "menu driven" style, you'll probably end up with many of the complaints about those games that we've heard over the years & still hear today.(I actually think a fairly strict implementation of the classic D&D rules in a computer game could still be a very fun game. When I started seriously considering trying the old games again, I was often surprised by how many things were there that I'd either missed before or forgotten. But I don't want to play it that way at the table.)The thing is, 3e can be played in the "perfect text adventure" style. Yet, somehow, I find it...I don't know...easier? with older editions.* * *Let me attempt a different tack on this topic: What impact does the difference in the Invisiblity spell between editions make, if any?</blockquote>

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