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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5296031" data-attributes="member: 22779">See, this is where I'm having trouble.&nbsp; I just listened to an interview with Tracy Hickman at Fear the Boot.&nbsp; Great interview.&nbsp; Well worth the listen.&nbsp; But, Mr. Hickman started out with OD&amp;D and into AD&amp;D.&nbsp; From the very beginning, he claimed that his games were all about &quot;running a story&quot; that it's the movement away from running a story and towards what he calls minutia, that is the problem with RPG's today.I think the thing is, even though Gary Gygax and co wrote a fairly specific game, people were subverting that text from the very first day.&nbsp; Players moved away from the very mechanistic approach to a game - you went from the town to the dungeon and then back to the town to rest, then back to the dungeon - that was outlined in the rules almost instantly.Even reading Mr. Gygax's own words in the Q&amp;A threads shows a distinct push towards story telling in his own games.&nbsp; There were very strong narratives going on - both promoted by the players and by the DM himself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5296031, member: 22779"] See, this is where I'm having trouble. I just listened to an interview with Tracy Hickman at Fear the Boot. Great interview. Well worth the listen. But, Mr. Hickman started out with OD&D and into AD&D. From the very beginning, he claimed that his games were all about "running a story" that it's the movement away from running a story and towards what he calls minutia, that is the problem with RPG's today. I think the thing is, even though Gary Gygax and co wrote a fairly specific game, people were subverting that text from the very first day. Players moved away from the very mechanistic approach to a game - you went from the town to the dungeon and then back to the town to rest, then back to the dungeon - that was outlined in the rules almost instantly. Even reading Mr. Gygax's own words in the Q&A threads shows a distinct push towards story telling in his own games. There were very strong narratives going on - both promoted by the players and by the DM himself. [/QUOTE]

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