Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="mkill" data-source="post: 5800906" data-attributes="member: 55985">Strange. I've played since the mid-90ies, across all kind of groups, systems and editions, and this never came up. You consider it an essential element of D&amp;D, I've never seen it. And I've never considered it missing. It's kind of funny because you talked about houserules and optional systems, but then you complain about an element that you miss, and never thought of adding that yourself. (Especially since stuff like wandering monsters are easy to add without changing core rules)I think that above all the niggly details of whether Paladins are LG and what not, this will be the core difficulty of uniting the player base. It's not that different groups play (and like) different editions, it's that groups play what boils down to essentially different games.Some play an open world game, where the group explores a continent with wandering monsters and trap-filled dungeons. The next group plays a soap opera with occasional fights. The next group plays a tactical wargame. Another group reenacts the first Alien film with swords and spells instead of guns. Yet another group is in a gory shonen manga. And it's all D&amp;D, and even the same edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mkill, post: 5800906, member: 55985"] Strange. I've played since the mid-90ies, across all kind of groups, systems and editions, and this never came up. You consider it an essential element of D&D, I've never seen it. And I've never considered it missing. It's kind of funny because you talked about houserules and optional systems, but then you complain about an element that you miss, and never thought of adding that yourself. (Especially since stuff like wandering monsters are easy to add without changing core rules) I think that above all the niggly details of whether Paladins are LG and what not, this will be the core difficulty of uniting the player base. It's not that different groups play (and like) different editions, it's that groups play what boils down to essentially different games. Some play an open world game, where the group explores a continent with wandering monsters and trap-filled dungeons. The next group plays a soap opera with occasional fights. The next group plays a tactical wargame. Another group reenacts the first Alien film with swords and spells instead of guns. Yet another group is in a gory shonen manga. And it's all D&D, and even the same edition. [/QUOTE]

Verification