The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Spicy Monday indeed!

 

[Gradine]

 

[CleverNickName]

If you really really really think that a prior edition was better ... play it.

I am not kidding…I was just stomping around this AM thinking “if you didn’t trade in your books…why not crack them open and use them?”

Absolutely. I got caught up in the Old School Renaissance movement a few years ago, when 3.5E/Pathfinder was at its peak and I was longing for the simpler rules and faster play of the older red-box Basic and blue-box Expert sets. I had heard good things about Castles & Crusades at the time, so I picked up the quick-start rules and gave it a spin. And it was...fine, I guess. Same experience with Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Hackmaster. They were fun enough, but they weren't really Basic or Expert. It was sort of like eating strawberry when I'm craving chocolate. (Having to learn new mechanics for something touted as "just like the classic" was also tedious. Was THAC0 really that bad?)

(Now here is the part where folks quote me and write something like "but but but you didn't try this one right here," and helpfully provides a link. And that's fine, but I'm no longer looking for another game. 5th Edition came out, we picked it up, and we're happy with it. We won't be changing.) The point is, I tried an embarrassing number of OSR games, looking for something that felt like the older editions, before I realized I could just play the older edition. Whenever I crave that Old School D&D, the books are on my shelf.

And then the thought occurred because you need other people to play too. And if you go around talking like the comic book guy from the Simpsons while reminding them x editions sucks, it might not just be the older edition they are avoiding.

Also a very good point. I avoid certain people and attitudes on the Internet, and unfortunately, that means I end up having to avoid some of the same place and products they use. There's nothing to be done about it; it's just how things are online.

 

[Gradine]

Was THAC0 really that bad?

 

[Scribe]

Oh, now we are debating if cheese is a dairy? OK, I guess.

If you are so convinced in the strength of your position that Pineapple is great, sell it. You are empowered to do so. Sell it, prove the world wrong. We are all just the unwashed ignorant masses, to your Enlighted Pineapple Obsession.

So prove it. Its only been a decade.

 

[CleverNickName]

Pineapple is great until proven not-great, because America or something.

 

[overgeeked]

You can’t prove opinions or preferences. Besides, even if you could, it’s not like anyone would change their mind anyway.

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

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[Warpiglet-7]

Absolutely. I got caught up in the Old School Renaissance movement a few years ago, when 3.5E/Pathfinder was at its peak and I was longing for the simpler rules and faster play of the older red-box Basic and blue-box Expert sets. I had heard good things about Castles & Crusades at the time, so I picked up the quick-start rules and gave it a spin. And it was...fine, I guess. Same experience with Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Hackmaster. They were fun enough, but they weren't really Basic or Expert. It was sort of like eating strawberry when I'm craving chocolate. (Having to learn new mechanics for something touted as "just like the classic" was also tedious. Was THAC0 really that bad?)

(Now here is the part where folks quote me and write something like "but but but you didn't try this one right here," and helpfully provides a link. And that's fine, but I'm no longer looking for another game. 5th Edition came out, we picked it up, and we're happy with it. We won't be changing.) The point is, I tried an embarrassing number of OSR games, looking for something that felt like the older editions, before I realized I could just play the older edition. Whenever I crave that Old School D&D, the books are on my shelf.


Also a very good point. I avoid certain people and attitudes on the Internet, and unfortunately, that means I end up having to avoid some of the same place and products they use. There's nothing to be done about it; it's just how things are online.

I love 5e and have all my 1e stuff. But one day we wanted to play BECMI. Something clean fast and simple.

We had a blast! We have talked about playing it again.

If we weren’t playing 2 5e campaigns I would
Think about some 1e just for kicks!

But I have a barbarian warlock that needs to rage so it will be another day…

 

[Alzrius]

I didn't say that the music in the Bleach anime is bad; the majority of the opening and ending themes are actually quite catchy (particularly the ending themes by RSP, "Kansha" and "Tabidatsu Kimi E" are tracks that you can listen to over and over). It's that the vocal BGMs are, quite frankly, awful. "Sensational" sounds like it came out of a cringe 70s movie, and even "Stand Up, Be Strong" is only somewhat good if you ignore the lyrics. They're all like that. I honestly don't know how the music director managed to do so well with the intro and outro tracks and yet managed to flub so consistently everywhere else.

(There's no rule that the other threads you're commenting on have to be from EN World. ;P)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"APPROPOS OF NOTHING, I THINK IT"S WORTH MENTIONING THAT PIZZA HUT DIDN'T KILL ANY EMPLOYEES IN THE LAST 90 ... 89 DAYS!"