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The Stakes of Classifying Games as Rules Lite, Medium, or Heavy?
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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8477885" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Exactly. Its like this debate about what the initiative rules are in 2e. I guarantee you there isn't a 'right' and a 'wrong' side, and that's just a technical rules interpretation issue. I will bet a dollar that people who played 1e and then used 2e as basically 'supplements' that updated stuff typically played a lot differently from people who picked up 2e in the mid-90's and never played Gygax-style D&D. Every TABLE had a different opinion of what the rules were back then. I can say with great assurance that we ignored whole swaths of 2e as 'nonsense' and used a lot of 1e procedures and such. Heck, it was only a few years ago in one of these threads that I went back and discovered that in fact 2e HAS NO EXPLORATION RULES AT ALL. My assumption was they were pretty much the same as the 1e ones. Back in the day I don't think we even realized it, the process was X and it wasn't even really a 'rules' thing to us back then, it was just 'how its done'. But if you picked up the 2e books and started playing, aside from a few stray references to turns, there was nothing in there about exploration movement, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8477885, member: 82106"] Exactly. Its like this debate about what the initiative rules are in 2e. I guarantee you there isn't a 'right' and a 'wrong' side, and that's just a technical rules interpretation issue. I will bet a dollar that people who played 1e and then used 2e as basically 'supplements' that updated stuff typically played a lot differently from people who picked up 2e in the mid-90's and never played Gygax-style D&D. Every TABLE had a different opinion of what the rules were back then. I can say with great assurance that we ignored whole swaths of 2e as 'nonsense' and used a lot of 1e procedures and such. Heck, it was only a few years ago in one of these threads that I went back and discovered that in fact 2e HAS NO EXPLORATION RULES AT ALL. My assumption was they were pretty much the same as the 1e ones. Back in the day I don't think we even realized it, the process was X and it wasn't even really a 'rules' thing to us back then, it was just 'how its done'. But if you picked up the 2e books and started playing, aside from a few stray references to turns, there was nothing in there about exploration movement, etc. [/QUOTE]
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