D&D Makes The Straight Dope

[Kae'Yoss]

I still find the fact that anyone started playing D&D in 2nd or 3rd ed pretty baffling.

/feeling his age

That would be me. Started in late 2e (when 3e was already out but I found no group of it at first). Of course, having to play 2e when you already know the 3e-rules (and facts like "you don't have to be a human to become a bard" and "the whole 'is it high or is it low' isn't necessary. Or my all-time favourit "there is a rule-set out there where you can do something against thieves sneaking and robbing you") is not a very good thing.

But now back to your regular program

 

[evileeyore]

I still find the fact that anyone started playing D&D in 2nd or 3rd ed pretty baffling.

/feeling his age

[hijack]

Hrumph, why I remember when there wasn't no 'A' before the the 'D&D', and we liked it! And we like it now, 'cause we can grump about 'how it was better in the old days...'

Why back in them days non humans leveled as non humans-and we liked it!

I remember every dungeon had a hill in front of it that we had to climb...

[/hijack]

TTFN

EvilE

 

[KidCthulhu]

Straight Dope isn't supposed to be funny, per say, although it is often amusing. It's a column intended to provide straight answers to perplexing questions and to debunk popular myths. Cecil is the primary writer, but there are actually a staff of volunteers, experts in a variety of fields, who research and write the different responses.

And that's what kind of annoys me about this one. One of the primary writers is a friend of mine, and has been a gamer for over 20 years. You think they'd have given this topic to the "expert", as they would do for a question on tax law, or Armenian pottery. Instead they drag up some old half-assed nonsense. Not really up to the Straight Dope's usual standards of meticulous research.

[grumble]Apparently, it's bad to be inexact about history or science, but ok when you're talking about a social phenomena people think is wierd anyway. [/grumble]