Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 4460643" data-attributes="member: 3586">Just a couple of notes:In the very early days of D&D, when Gary was playing the system, he was playing it a lot. Daily. If you look at the AD&D DMG, there's a section on keeping track of time. In it, Gary recommends keeping a 1:1 correspondence of 1 day of gaming missed to 1 day of "game" time.There's also a discussion there of a group of five players and what they're doing. They've split up... a lot - gone on quests, etc.For the modern campaign, which is often played once per fortnight, none of that discussion applies very well at all! You've got a bunch of assumptions about game play which may be boiled down to:* very frequent play* players having more than one character (henchmen, etc.)* solo play (one DM and one player, who may have many characters)* lot of dungeoneering and few really narrative plots.In such an environment, things like the "paladin's quest for a mount" are far less significant than in the 1/fortnight play we have today.I feel any discussion on "mechanics or flavour" needs to keep that in mind: the game environment we play D&D in today is not the same as the environment in which it was originally designed.Cheers!</blockquote>