Doug McCrae
Legend
There was no horror in the original. The horror genre, when successful, takes time to make its protagonists real - to make you care about them. They have personalities and history and motivation. Not so with S1. This is old school play. It's a relentless treadmill of death. The players have a dozen PCs generated, they probably don't even bother to give them names. Your PC dies. So what? He didn't exist in any sense, anyway. Death is meaningless. It's a deeply videogame-y playstyle, reminiscent of learning a boss in World of Warcraft. The wipes don't mean that much, all you've lost is time.There's alot wrong with this idea. Most of it has been said already. Where's the horror in a mega-ToH I ask? The original did more to scare players in several dozen pages than an entire boxed set ever could, that's why its often imitated.