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<blockquote data-quote="EarthsShadow" data-source="post: 328966" data-attributes="member: 3531">I am a person who never got taken on the EQ ride for the computers, I stay away from it like the plague because personally I thought it was rediculous to spend hours each day playing on the computer like that.&nbsp; But, I liked the concept of EQ, and I was first in line to get the rpg book.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because to me its better than d&amp;d and the general d20 stuff out there.&nbsp; Sure its not as simple as the normal d20 game, but who says it has to be.&nbsp; That is what makes this game just a little more unique as a fantasy game, because of the differences involved.&nbsp; It uses mana instead of spell slots, it has more races, more classes, sure the book is as heavy as a greatsword, but that doesn't bother me any.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I am also a gamer who never played AD&amp;D or the 1st ed D&amp;D because as soon as I read about THAC0 on those old games I never touched them and refused to play a game that was so stupid to include something like that (but that's the topic of a different conversation).&nbsp; Sure there is a lot of cross referencing with the spells, but if they didn't do what they did in how they printed it, then the book would have been at least another 50 pages of spell description that wouldn't have to be there.&nbsp; All in all, its an excellent game and if you feel that its a bunch of video game characters instead of role-playing characters then that is what the person'a ability to role-play is all about.&nbsp; It's just a setting and a bunch of rules, nothing more.&nbsp; It's what we do with it that counts.&nbsp; Treat it like a video game, it will feel like a video game.&nbsp; Treat it like a world, then it will feel like a world.&nbsp; Buy it for what it is and don't try to convert it to anything else, or convert everything else into EQrpg because its just that superior.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EarthsShadow, post: 328966, member: 3531"] I am a person who never got taken on the EQ ride for the computers, I stay away from it like the plague because personally I thought it was rediculous to spend hours each day playing on the computer like that. But, I liked the concept of EQ, and I was first in line to get the rpg book. Why? Because to me its better than d&d and the general d20 stuff out there. Sure its not as simple as the normal d20 game, but who says it has to be. That is what makes this game just a little more unique as a fantasy game, because of the differences involved. It uses mana instead of spell slots, it has more races, more classes, sure the book is as heavy as a greatsword, but that doesn't bother me any. :D I am also a gamer who never played AD&D or the 1st ed D&D because as soon as I read about THAC0 on those old games I never touched them and refused to play a game that was so stupid to include something like that (but that's the topic of a different conversation). Sure there is a lot of cross referencing with the spells, but if they didn't do what they did in how they printed it, then the book would have been at least another 50 pages of spell description that wouldn't have to be there. All in all, its an excellent game and if you feel that its a bunch of video game characters instead of role-playing characters then that is what the person'a ability to role-play is all about. It's just a setting and a bunch of rules, nothing more. It's what we do with it that counts. Treat it like a video game, it will feel like a video game. Treat it like a world, then it will feel like a world. Buy it for what it is and don't try to convert it to anything else, or convert everything else into EQrpg because its just that superior. [/QUOTE]

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