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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4154038" data-attributes="member: 158">Actually, the &quot;lazy&quot; DMing was the standard for decades before 3E ever came along -- and to me it was in part what made the game as popular, because it didn't take as much backgrounding to run a game. One of the things i did around 2002, after two years of doing it the &quot;3E&quot; way, was to start statting NPCs up in that exception based fashion common to earlier versions of D&amp;D. Cut a few corners, and statting up an NPC was really easy, because the fact that there was a plethora of feats, flaws, skills, and classes out there meant you could hide a multitude of sins that way. Heck, someone just showed me &quot;Nup Nup the Kobold&quot; recently (a legally created 20TH LEVEL CHARACTER WITH ZERO HIT POINTS!!!!) and I believe a man can fly, again. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But frankly, anything that can make D&amp;D as easy to run for 6 friends in a couple hours' play time as it used to be in the days of 1E and 2E is a good thing, to me. If not, I still have Castles and Crusades (THANK YOU, OGL.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4154038, member: 158"] Actually, the "lazy" DMing was the standard for decades before 3E ever came along -- and to me it was in part what made the game as popular, because it didn't take as much backgrounding to run a game. One of the things i did around 2002, after two years of doing it the "3E" way, was to start statting NPCs up in that exception based fashion common to earlier versions of D&D. Cut a few corners, and statting up an NPC was really easy, because the fact that there was a plethora of feats, flaws, skills, and classes out there meant you could hide a multitude of sins that way. Heck, someone just showed me "Nup Nup the Kobold" recently (a legally created 20TH LEVEL CHARACTER WITH ZERO HIT POINTS!!!!) and I believe a man can fly, again. :) But frankly, anything that can make D&D as easy to run for 6 friends in a couple hours' play time as it used to be in the days of 1E and 2E is a good thing, to me. If not, I still have Castles and Crusades (THANK YOU, OGL.) [/QUOTE]

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