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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1196976" data-attributes="member: 545">I have great respect for your opinion, Woodelf.&nbsp; I really do.&nbsp; So with hesitation I pronouce that this argument has always struck me as the Dumbest Thing Ever Said About D&amp;D.&nbsp; This idea has always been the most bizarre defense of the rabid D&amp;D faction when arguing (pointlessly) about the relative merits of game system on Usenet.&nbsp; In my mind it boils down to arguing: &quot;AD&amp;D 1e/2e has such hopelessly bad mechanics that nothing I do will noticeably improve or damage the system.&nbsp; Therefore D&amp;D is an easer system to customize.&quot;By the standards of 3e, every single customizable of 1e/2e is an utter failure, because the end result is a hopelessly unbalanced system.&nbsp; (No big surprise if that is what you started out with.)For those of you who care not about play balance, it is theorectically possible that 3e is not an improvement for your style of play over 1e/2e.&nbsp; But then it becomes impossible to logically argue &quot;one simple change echoes all over the place&quot; in 3e.&nbsp; The echoes are all irrelevant -- they are mere play balance issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 1196976, member: 545"] I have great respect for your opinion, Woodelf. I really do. So with hesitation I pronouce that this argument has always struck me as the [i]Dumbest Thing Ever Said About D&D[/i]. This idea has always been the most bizarre defense of the rabid D&D faction when arguing (pointlessly) about the relative merits of game system on Usenet. In my mind it boils down to arguing: "AD&D 1e/2e has such hopelessly bad mechanics that nothing I do will noticeably improve or damage the system. Therefore D&D is an easer system to customize." By the standards of 3e, every single customizable of 1e/2e is an utter [i]failure[/i], because the end result is a hopelessly unbalanced system. (No big surprise if that is what you started out with.) For those of you who care not about play balance, it is theorectically possible that 3e is not an improvement for your style of play over 1e/2e. But then it becomes impossible to logically argue "one simple change echoes all over the place" in 3e. The echoes are all irrelevant -- they are mere play balance issues. [/QUOTE]

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