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<blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1304349" data-attributes="member: 9983"><p>Play whatever makes you happy I guess.</p><p></p><p>For me, D20 is the best level based game system out there at the moment so its a little easier to live with than most of them. However its not been long since we've begun to heavily house rule our games of DnD to make it-</p><p>Scale properly</p><p>Remove cheesiness</p><p>Improve the lifespan of play</p><p>Reduce the amount of 'must be more uber than you' attitude.</p><p>Cut down on metagaming</p><p></p><p>The last two in particular earn my rancor as the game seems to have hit a point where it was launched where it actively encouraged people to plan out a character from 1-20 and the addition of PrC's was something that was optional but now seems to carry the brand of being 'essential'.</p><p>Im sorry, but I prefer people to play organic characters that develop over a course of a game, yeah maybe you wont be one of the <em>elite</em> kids like over on the Wotc forums, but you'll have something worthy of being called a character.</p><p></p><p>Personally I dont like level based systems and I really dislike games with an alignment system as well, but DnD is so heavily reliant on both theres not a lot I can do to house rule them out of it yet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Have a crack at some of the other games out there, many dont have nearly as steep a learning curve as D20 either and any geeky gamer dude(tte) worth their salt shouldnt have much trouble with them over 1-2 game sessions before they get a grip on them.</p><p>I'd recommend: Shadowrun, SLA Industries and most of the White Wolf stuff worthy of a look as I had a lot of fun playing and running them and they also have some immersive background too them which is essential for getting the imagination going.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thresher, post: 1304349, member: 9983"] Play whatever makes you happy I guess. For me, D20 is the best level based game system out there at the moment so its a little easier to live with than most of them. However its not been long since we've begun to heavily house rule our games of DnD to make it- Scale properly Remove cheesiness Improve the lifespan of play Reduce the amount of 'must be more uber than you' attitude. Cut down on metagaming The last two in particular earn my rancor as the game seems to have hit a point where it was launched where it actively encouraged people to plan out a character from 1-20 and the addition of PrC's was something that was optional but now seems to carry the brand of being 'essential'. Im sorry, but I prefer people to play organic characters that develop over a course of a game, yeah maybe you wont be one of the [i]elite[/i] kids like over on the Wotc forums, but you'll have something worthy of being called a character. Personally I dont like level based systems and I really dislike games with an alignment system as well, but DnD is so heavily reliant on both theres not a lot I can do to house rule them out of it yet :) Have a crack at some of the other games out there, many dont have nearly as steep a learning curve as D20 either and any geeky gamer dude(tte) worth their salt shouldnt have much trouble with them over 1-2 game sessions before they get a grip on them. I'd recommend: Shadowrun, SLA Industries and most of the White Wolf stuff worthy of a look as I had a lot of fun playing and running them and they also have some immersive background too them which is essential for getting the imagination going. [/QUOTE]
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