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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9890975" data-attributes="member: 6790260">But how can this be?!I was assured that white rooming was a sin invented by WotC and/or The Edition That Must Not Be Named!I was promised that players only ever considered the world around them, never even glancing at a character sheet if they could avoid it!I was told over and over again how horrible-awful-terrible modern D&D is because it's so full of rollplaying not roleplaying, of stale perfect-uniformity challenges where victory is always assured, while classic D&D was exclusively roleplaying, with real challenges and variable outcomes and the need to exploit every possible advantage!How...how could this possibly be real? It can't. I refuse to believe it. Fake news! No, they're all actors pretending to be D&D players! No...it must be the competitors of D&D paying people to pretend to be actors pretending to be D&D players, that's it. That must be it. There's no way the shining golden utopia of absolute roleplaying and War and "playing at the world" could have been a deception. It just couldn't be!For the record, thank you, very much, for posting this. Because it really has been the case that folks have argued to me that this sort of thing genuinely never happened prior to 2000. That it was genuinely invented by WotC D&D, and that players are somehow fundamentally different now compared to what they were in the TSR era. Clearly, those arguments have been concealing their similarity to swiss cheese....</blockquote>

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