The second volume of Goodman Games's Points of Light offers nods to 4E, but nothing remotely like the "stat blocks" in most RPG products.
I am one of those old folks whose views of the hobby were formed in the ferment of the 1970s. When later volumes of Chaosium's All the Worlds' Monsters included articles on converting the D&D-style descriptions into terms suitable for use with Tunnels & Trolls and RuneQuest, the predicate assumption that folks interested in doing so would be reading the books in the first place was unremarkable.
I wonder just how close that is -- at least among the subset of gamers who visit ENworld -- to being unthinkable today.
Will you "judge a book by its cover" to the extent of simply passing up, without further investigation, something advertised as for Some Other Game? How about an offering billed simply as of potential utility in "any fantasy game"?
I am one of those old folks whose views of the hobby were formed in the ferment of the 1970s. When later volumes of Chaosium's All the Worlds' Monsters included articles on converting the D&D-style descriptions into terms suitable for use with Tunnels & Trolls and RuneQuest, the predicate assumption that folks interested in doing so would be reading the books in the first place was unremarkable.
I wonder just how close that is -- at least among the subset of gamers who visit ENworld -- to being unthinkable today.
Will you "judge a book by its cover" to the extent of simply passing up, without further investigation, something advertised as for Some Other Game? How about an offering billed simply as of potential utility in "any fantasy game"?