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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6007290" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, sure, but that still leaves the question of why we don't get this kind of complaint about say 1e AD&amp;D... It explains NOTHING really about the basic assumptions. The word 'level' is thrown around all over the place and never really explained (in any of the 5 ways it gets used no less) yet the whole game is built around level graded challenges and structured environments where each grade of challenge happens in a geographically distinct area (IE a dungeon made up of a layer cake of dungeon levels). NONE of this ever explained in the slightest. Even the example dungeon doesn't really clarify any of that.Yet I have never heard it said that 1e should explain these conventions, nor that 2e should explain them, nor that 3.x should explain its conventions either. That's what puzzles me to no end. I've read literally 100's, maybe even 1000's of comments that can be summarized with &quot;boy, 4e didn't explain all that stuff, for shame for shame!&quot; yet nobody ever seemed to want or need it explained before...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6007290, member: 82106"] Well, sure, but that still leaves the question of why we don't get this kind of complaint about say 1e AD&D... It explains NOTHING really about the basic assumptions. The word 'level' is thrown around all over the place and never really explained (in any of the 5 ways it gets used no less) yet the whole game is built around level graded challenges and structured environments where each grade of challenge happens in a geographically distinct area (IE a dungeon made up of a layer cake of dungeon levels). NONE of this ever explained in the slightest. Even the example dungeon doesn't really clarify any of that. Yet I have never heard it said that 1e should explain these conventions, nor that 2e should explain them, nor that 3.x should explain its conventions either. That's what puzzles me to no end. I've read literally 100's, maybe even 1000's of comments that can be summarized with "boy, 4e didn't explain all that stuff, for shame for shame!" yet nobody ever seemed to want or need it explained before... [/QUOTE]

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