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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7085565" data-attributes="member: 29398">I guess I'm somewhat lower-brow, in that if I can (often unintentionally) hit some Tolkein, Xena-Hercules, Game of Thrones, Vikings and a dash or two of Robert Jordan I'll say things are going well.Question: I've always seen B/X, original D&D, and 1e as being bery much the same in terms of play at the table, just with varying degrees of rules complexity; yet you and others seem to see them as quite different.  How so?There's lots of sense in that passage you quoted.  Sometimes either one or more individual characters or the game as a whole just need to sit back and take a deep breath...take a break for a moment.  This tangentially gets at a question I had for [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] about 30 pages ago regarding whether the PCs in his game ever get any downtime or breaks in which the stress is off and they can just kick back and relax for a while.The players co-operate when it comes to pouring each other's beer and getting the snacks onto the table.  Once the game starts however, sometimes both player and character in-game co-operation wanders out the window, and as long as it all stays in character that's just fine.  And it can get cut-throat (literally!) sometimes - PCs killing off other PCs is not unheard of - while at other times (usually when under severe threat) they can run like a well-oiled machine.As long as you're not offended when I chop out lots of it when I reply, all is good. <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=":)" />Lan-"sometimes a good poker face is essential"-efan</blockquote>

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