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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greyvanth" data-source="post: 285941" data-attributes="member: 6382">My name is Scott ...... and I'm a Harnoholic ...I remember when I switched to Harn. We had just finished the DragonLance series (took us 3 years 0 Great Stuff!). In that time we added a ton of Houserules to the AD&D game; Critical hit tables and such littered the table and it played well. It was a blast to use the Crit table after a player rolled a natural 20 on d20 (or was it a modified 20, or a natural modified d20 - er - a modified ) ... sorry. My first Harn combat was a bar brawl in Trobridge Inn. Suddenly our strikes were hitting actual (well fantasy actual) body locations. We got tired and weaker as the seconds of combat rolled by. My PC companion tried a drop kick from on top of a bar table and slipped falling and cutting his hip on some broken pottery - this was all using the actual rules and not a narrated GM game (which I could never get into). I loved it and stayed for the last 20 years.I didn't leave D&D because it was a lousy system - it isn't. d20 has made it great again. I switched to Harn whole-heartedly because weeks after that first game I could still remember the bar fight and others we had played as if they were real memories full of real-lifelike detail weeks later. Something about the "detailed" and "realistic" way HARN played cemented the smallest detail into my mind. Not that I don't have great memories from AD&D but they are general impressions of events not (for me anyways) step by step, detailed adventures. I think the culprit may have been the HP system but that is another thread all together. Today My gaming group of 20 years can get together and laugh (cry for the Laranian Knight) as we regale each other with tales of Harnic adventure in detail. It has also been fun to write and bind a book of our adventures each Christmas that we write and give to all the players.You should all stop by and join me in a Bar Brawl sometime - I really think you would like it. If you do try Harn - make sure your first game is with an experienced HARN GM. The system taken cold is kinda like the first time you read The Hobbit or LotR - slow and boring to start but worth it if you get past the first chapters.</blockquote>

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