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<blockquote data-quote="Thorin Stoutfoot" data-source="post: 48041" data-attributes="member: 1887">Old school vs. New SchoolI think the guys who talk about the new school being about the setting is right. There's a thread over at the gaming report with a bunch of industry bigwigs talking about this:<a href="http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=XForum&amp;file=viewthread&amp;tid=27" target="_blank">http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=XForum&amp;file=viewthread&amp;tid=27</a>You should do yourself a favor and hop over there to read it, because I think it's a wonderful analysis about why TSR/WW floundered and actually made the industry smaller in the early 90s with the emphasis on published settings versus game product.I've thought about some of those issues, but from the discussion over there I must say that Ryan Dancey and the rest have REALLY thought about it. I have to really applaud Ryan Dancey and the folks at WoTC for having the courage to drag D&amp;D back to its roots. And by that I don't mean just &quot;back to the dungeon&quot;, but with an emphasis on providing game rules, not flavor text.Here's one product idea that Ryan talks about that makes me wish he was still running WoTC:&quot;The other would be the book I keep suggesting that WotC consider publishing: Core Book IV: Game Designer's Guide. The GDG would contain all the systems and mathematical analysis used to construct 3e, and explain how the system works at a low level, and how to add to it and extend it correctly. That book would be a guide to effective encounter, scenario, story and world design, all using the d20 System&quot;Hot damn, Ryan, make it happen! I don't care if that book cost $100, I'll buy it. Even if I was forced to relearn linear algebra and how to setup systems of differential equations again, I'd buy the book. It'd be like being given an assembly-level tool for d20.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thorin Stoutfoot, post: 48041, member: 1887"] [b]Old school vs. New School[/b] I think the guys who talk about the new school being about the setting is right. There's a thread over at the gaming report with a bunch of industry bigwigs talking about this: [url]http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=27[/url] You should do yourself a favor and hop over there to read it, because I think it's a wonderful analysis about why TSR/WW floundered and actually made the industry smaller in the early 90s with the emphasis on published settings versus game product. I've thought about some of those issues, but from the discussion over there I must say that Ryan Dancey and the rest have REALLY thought about it. I have to really applaud Ryan Dancey and the folks at WoTC for having the courage to drag D&D back to its roots. And by that I don't mean just "back to the dungeon", but with an emphasis on providing game rules, not flavor text. Here's one product idea that Ryan talks about that makes me wish he was still running WoTC: "The other would be the book I keep suggesting that WotC consider publishing: Core Book IV: Game Designer's Guide. The GDG would contain all the systems and mathematical analysis used to construct 3e, and explain how the system works at a low level, and how to add to it and extend it correctly. That book would be a guide to effective encounter, scenario, story and world design, all using the d20 System" Hot damn, Ryan, make it happen! I don't care if that book cost $100, I'll buy it. Even if I was forced to relearn linear algebra and how to setup systems of differential equations again, I'd buy the book. It'd be like being given an assembly-level tool for d20. [/QUOTE]

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