Creativity, where has it gone?

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Sorry, can't resist. Its 'bated' breath, short for abated.

Well, it's possible he's been eating sardines ...

 

[rounser]

Someone always seems to be yearning for the, usually fictional, good ol' days of one kind or another.

Oh go on, it's just a wish for a game which has less of a rod up it's behind in terms of interdependent components, so that you can customise it to your needs with ease instead of headaches.

It would be an amazing feat to make 4E modular, and WotC probably wouldn't want to make it that way anyway for fear of splitting the customer rules base, but customising the system (and not having barriers in place to prevent it) is a large part of the fun of D&D and a large part of how it used to be played, your cynical comments and Gygax's intentions for AD&D notwithstanding. That it would be nearly impossible in terms of design to maintain both game balance and significant modularity in a game with the complexity of D&D is another big stumbling block, but doesn't lessen the original point.

 

[Quasqueton]

I call out to you a challenge to put your credit cards down and take out your pencils.

But what about those people who have more money than time? You know, those who graduated highschool, graduated college, got married, had kids, yet still play their cherished game.

Hah! Thats EXACTLY why they invented Castles and Crusades!

I thought they invented it to have something for the folks who couldn't handle the full and legitimate upgrade for D&D.

Quasqueton

 

[kingpaul]

I call out to you a challenge to put your credit cards down and take out your pencils. Take your game back. No one should be required to take out loans to play a game that resides in your imagination.

Who's requiring you to buy books? Seriously, is someone holding a gun to your head or knife to your throat and demanding that you buy gaming materials?

Because of the SRD/RSRD/MSRD, you don't *have* to even buy the core books anymore to own a copy, you can just download them.

Why do *I* buy books? For ideas, plain and simple. Its amazing what you can mine from books, throw in a mixer, hir blend, and see what you come out with. My players know to not expect what they should expect.

 

[rounser]

I thought they invented it to have something for the folks who couldn't handle the full and legitimate upgrade for D&D.

You've proved the original poster's point unwittingly. Case closed...

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

You've proved the original poster's point unwittingly. Case closed...

Hah! You fell for it!

 

[Buttercup]

Why not tweak or create the rules to fit your game or vision? What is with the compulsion to own books? Poll after poll shows that a vast majority of peole only use a few of the books clogging up their bookshelves.

Why do you care what I spend my disposable income on? And how could you possibly know whether or not I tweak the rules at my table to suit myself? And why do you assume that buying books and tweaking rules do not and cannot coexist? And finally, if I and my players are having fun doing what we do, the way we do, who are you to say we are not creative?

 

[Kanegrundar]

I'm a combination of Arwink and Philreed. I get so many ideas from 99% of the books that I buy. I use Rifts books to influence my D20 Modern/Future games, for instance. I'm pretty creative, but I still find new things that I wouldn't have thought of before or new ways to implement ideas I've had for a long time. Plus, since time is a huge commodity for me these days it's nice to find some new rules implementations that save me the time to create them myself so I can focus on the flavor of the setting.

I'll continue buying new books that interest me and still be creative. Buying new books doesn't make a bit of difference in my creativity.

Kane

 

[Maggan]

Why C&C?

Hah! Thats EXACTLY why they invented Castles and Crusades!

To stop us from buying any more roleplaying books? Not much future for that line ...

Cheers!

/M

 

[Desdichado]

Hah! Thats EXACTLY why they invented Castles and Crusades!

To cater to the cranky old gamer who pines for mythical "good old days?"