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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9377143" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I would say NS has pretty much always been with us.&nbsp; Games I've played have almost always emphasized the character over the combat, investing in who I'm playing over investing in more henchmen.&nbsp; Even back in the days of OD&amp;D, I wanted to play a character who imbodied a protagonist from one of my favorite books, not a tactical unit likely to die.&nbsp; We just fudged things a bit and made raise dead readily available in order to make it happen.&nbsp; PCs still died now and then (including my elf back in they day when they couldn't get raised because they didn't have souls*), but it wasn't the meatgrinder that some people had.&nbsp; Even in the days of AD&amp;D, it was the common way to play for most people that I knew.So that's the reason I have an issue with the label old vs new, but I'm not sure what the labels should be.*I don't remember if elves not having souls was an official rule or one we made up to justify the fact that raise dead didn't work on them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9377143, member: 6801845"] I would say NS has pretty much always been with us. Games I've played have almost always emphasized the character over the combat, investing in who I'm playing over investing in more henchmen. Even back in the days of OD&D, I wanted to play a character who imbodied a protagonist from one of my favorite books, not a tactical unit likely to die. We just fudged things a bit and made raise dead readily available in order to make it happen. PCs still died now and then (including my elf back in they day when they couldn't get raised because they didn't have souls*), but it wasn't the meatgrinder that some people had. Even in the days of AD&D, it was the common way to play for most people that I knew. So that's the reason I have an issue with the label old vs new, but I'm not sure what the labels should be. *[I]I don't remember if elves not having souls was an official rule or one we made up to justify the fact that raise dead didn't work on them.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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