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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8413809" data-attributes="member: 7030755">In one interview I saw, the way he described it was what it was like to play dnd as a kid where you didn't know or bother to look up all the rules.&nbsp; That is, it's really meant for the players especially to stay within the fiction as much as possible.&nbsp; I think it shares this with the OSR and its ever-more minimalist character sheets.I do feel like what the player and dm needs to have in front of them (or in their head) is a good way of figuring out what's important to a game and how that game plays.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, Matt Colvile's contention regarding 4e is that it is very very helpful to set up a VTT to automate a lot of the math in the game, vs trying to track it on paper.&nbsp; That's kind of a barrier to play for me, mostly because I end up tracking things not for myself but for half the table that can't figure out the rules.&nbsp; Along those lines, I tried to watch Colvile's 4e game on youtube, and, yeah, it's kinda just him messing around with software for two hours?&nbsp; Maybe it will pick up later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8413809, member: 7030755"] In one interview I saw, the way he described it was what it was like to play dnd as a kid where you didn't know or bother to look up all the rules. That is, it's really meant for the players especially to stay within the fiction as much as possible. I think it shares this with the OSR and its ever-more minimalist character sheets. I do feel like what the player and dm needs to have in front of them (or in their head) is a good way of figuring out what's important to a game and how that game plays. For example, Matt Colvile's contention regarding 4e is that it is very very helpful to set up a VTT to automate a lot of the math in the game, vs trying to track it on paper. That's kind of a barrier to play for me, mostly because I end up tracking things not for myself but for half the table that can't figure out the rules. Along those lines, I tried to watch Colvile's 4e game on youtube, and, yeah, it's kinda just him messing around with software for two hours? Maybe it will pick up later. [/QUOTE]

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