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<blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 6174308" data-attributes="member: 61501"><p>Here's my Internet anecdote. I have always played D&D with miniatures on maps & I started in the 70s (well 1979). I have dabbled in campaigns where people did not use minis but they folded quickly as they were doing it wrong. Combat has always been the main focus along with taking stuff off the dead corpses. </p><p></p><p>I played lots of 1, a bit of 2, lots of 3 & when 4 came out it exactly encapsulated D&D as I played it. In fact I described it as more like D&D then other editions. By this I meant that if the fluff described a monster doing something you could just write a power to make it do that. In 3e you were supposed to use the spells & rules for eg grappling to embody a monster ability & they rarely worked as well as you wanted them to.</p><p></p><p>It turns out from reading the internet (& observing the reaction to 4e) that I am in fact something of an outlier in the way that people play D&D & other (lesser<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) interpretations of the game are in fact quite popular.</p><p></p><p>Anyway I don't think of myself as using house rules though I do use a couple - XP ad libbing mostly though I have played mostly OP LFR & PFS in the last few years. I can't remember playing with a DM who created his own world my newest DM has not set his game in any established world but the fact he has not named any of the towns & villages does not lead me to call this an exercise in world building <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pickles JG, post: 6174308, member: 61501"] Here's my Internet anecdote. I have always played D&D with miniatures on maps & I started in the 70s (well 1979). I have dabbled in campaigns where people did not use minis but they folded quickly as they were doing it wrong. Combat has always been the main focus along with taking stuff off the dead corpses. I played lots of 1, a bit of 2, lots of 3 & when 4 came out it exactly encapsulated D&D as I played it. In fact I described it as more like D&D then other editions. By this I meant that if the fluff described a monster doing something you could just write a power to make it do that. In 3e you were supposed to use the spells & rules for eg grappling to embody a monster ability & they rarely worked as well as you wanted them to. It turns out from reading the internet (& observing the reaction to 4e) that I am in fact something of an outlier in the way that people play D&D & other (lesser;)) interpretations of the game are in fact quite popular. Anyway I don't think of myself as using house rules though I do use a couple - XP ad libbing mostly though I have played mostly OP LFR & PFS in the last few years. I can't remember playing with a DM who created his own world my newest DM has not set his game in any established world but the fact he has not named any of the towns & villages does not lead me to call this an exercise in world building :) [/QUOTE]
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