I don't know how I ever managed to game as a kid

[Nifft]

Absolute genius. You have come uncomfortably close to my Blue Box experiences.

It really wasn't until 3.0e that I got back into D&D, close to 20 years later.

thanks! -- N

 

[buzz]

It really wasn't until 3.0e that I got back into D&D, close to 20 years later.

I honestly think that it wasn't untl 3.0 that I really knew how to play before actually playing a session. Even in the CoC, Rolemaster, and Champions games I played in college, I don't think I really grasped any of the systems in their entirety. In a flashback to my experience with Hussein, I remember running some Champs in college, where, after one of the PCs hit a villain in combat, the game ground to a halt as I tried to figure out how the heck you rolled damage. That there were d6's invovled was about the extent of my knowledge.

 

[WayneLigon]

That is so totally opposite my experiences both in learning the game and since then, I dunno what to say I was taught how to play by others, and everyone else I know who has gamed was the same way. We played for a time before GMing, but we read the rule books cover to cover several times. We still do that; we get at least some familiarity with the system.

 

[buzz]

That is so totally opposite my experiences both in learning the game and since then, I dunno what to say I was taught how to play by others, and everyone else I know who has gamed was the same way. We played for a time before GMing, but we read the rule books cover to cover several times. We still do that; we get at least some familiarity with the system.

We read the books cover-to-cover at some point. We even had a "rules lawyer," may pal Rich. It didn't seem to help much.

I do remember thoroughly grokking a replacement initiative system that was in Dragon, though. I didn't know the actual system too well, but I was pretty sure the Dragon version was better.