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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8352769" data-attributes="member: 6779310">I loved the Mustard analogy... Some  people want their favored every time, the same on bangers, hamburgers, club sandwiches, and even as chicken parts dip.Some want to try every kind with every thing they routinely eat, to find which is best with what.Both of those are the extremes... Many have different preferences for which foods get which (or no) mustard.I like yellow mustard or most dijon mustards on my sausages in a long bun... but I don't want either on my hamburger from  the local greasy spoon, because neither goes well with A1 steaksauce... And I want only dijon used in my tuna salad. Likewise, I like class and level for dungeon fantasy well enough... but for sci-fi or even space fantasy, it's not a thing I find a good combination. (even if I did enjoy the Traveller T20 Playtest. And, yes, my name is in the book. The parts I love I backported to MegaTraveller last few times I ran it.)But for a game, if it's not at least a novel mixture, there is literally zero reason for me to buy it.And many novel mixtures don't appeal for various reasons. The brain behind Legend of the Flame Princess makes his take on differencing from BX... a new encumbrance system, and an emphasis on weird fantasy, and on providing adult imagery. It's one of the most novel pseudoclones. DCC is a different kind of novel BX pseudoclone... Neither is a true clone; not being a true clone is what makes them valuable. C&C is an AD&D pseudoclone... it has the same classes and races, but a different engine under the hood, monster compatible with AD&D. Labyrinth Lord? It's only real change that struck me from the free version was a switch to ascending AC as an option... it's value as a BX replacement went away the day that WotC restored the BX, BECMI, and Cyclopedia availability on DriveThru. Especially since they now allow PoD on some of them.I only run old school D&D as  a one-shot or mini-campaign, because I only run it when a group basically begs me to. And then I use Cyclopedia. (I've 3 copies from the 90's.) I'm always seeking the novel experience; complacency with a given setting is not something I've ever experienced. Pendragon comes closest, but most of my campaigns end because player actions break the timeline.I've run several adventures multiple times over the years... WFRP TEW, Traveller The Traveller Adventure (TTA), Pendragon Great Pendragon Campaign, Firefly The Wedding Planners.... and every time they have run differently. TTA was a very differennt each time, as I was using different rules each time... CT, then CT+B7:MP, then MT, then MT+CT core trade, then TTNE, then T4, and finally, MGT 1E.Hoard of the dragon queen? Run it 3  times. Felt same-y every time. Only the in-character idiocy of one player and the in-character play of another in the same group made the 3rd run feel different. (J and B: it was a hoot, thanks!)Novelty isn't a tyranny. No one's making the OP buy the novel stuff. But novel is what markets need to stay vibrant. And for many, probably most, a certain amount of novelty is essential.</blockquote>

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