Scott Rouse: of Interesting Note

[Retreater]

Sorry if I came across rude. I just don't see how it's possible to follow the RAW without minis.

I've probably hijacked this thread enough already.

Happy gaming
Retreater

 

[Crothian]

Sorry if I came across rude. I just don't see how it's possible to follow the RAW without minis.

I've probably hijacked this thread enough already.

If you really want to know start a new thread and propose specific rules that you feel one needs minis for. Just saying it can't be done without specific reasons is not going to be enough for a discussion. Turn this little hijack into a productive discussion.

 

[SkidAce]

Odd...We have used minatures for positioning for ages. Since 1st edition in fact. Mainly nicely handpainted ones for main characters, and the pewter grey for mooks.

But the descriptive battles were still there, we basically had a hybrid.

But I agree you do not "need" them.

 

[WayneLigon]

OK, now people are just making up stuff to be upset about.

 

[EditorBFG]

If you really want to know start a new thread and propose specific rules that you feel one needs minis for.

How about an old one? http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=179179

 

[Vigilance]

OK, now people are just making up stuff to be upset about.

Are we sure Scott Rouse is even one guy?

I propose that there is a Second Poster, hiding in the grassy knoll.

Because otherwise, we have to subscribe to the "Magic Poster Theory", which clearly defies the laws of physics as we know them.

 

[Cabled]

I obviously can't read his mind, but I'd imagine the distinction was between "real world sitting around a table" and "sitting behind your computer screen"...not splitting hairs on what you would be doing sitting around that table.

 

[amethal]

Scott Rouse seem sincere to me.

Why, have people been accusing him of trolling? :\

 

[Mistwell]

You play the game "correctly" in that you and your group have fun. No one can dispute it if you enjoy it. But it's impossible to follow the letter of the rules of the d20 System without minis and a battlemat. Absolutely impossible.

You are wrong. Emphatically, unquestionably wrong.

The fact that you have not apparently experienced what people are talking about doesn't make it not real. It just means you are not currently able to imagine how the game can be played, exactly "correctly" by the books, without actual minis and a battlemat.

Not only can it be done, it's done every day by hundreds of people.

You need to accept the possibility that there is a way to do it, and that you just haven't personally wrapped your mind around how it would be done quite yet.

 

[Dire Bare]

One little scrap of information I took notice from response from Scott Rouse is that he does not refer to the game as pen-n-paper, but rather as 'tabletop' gaming. This is rather disturbing to me, as I think it foreshadows a move to a more mini-centric game, and is not playing to the roots of the game.

There have been other allusions to moving the game in this direction. I am not sure what to think about the future of my favorite hobby.

You're kidding me, right? You're upset about the term "tabletop" game used to describe a game primarily played . . . on the tabletop?

Jeesh, I've been using this term for years, even before I became addicted to the plastic crack of today's miniatures.