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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9243300" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Well, I don't think you can call OD&amp;D the &quot;worst&quot; RPG ever made for a very simple reason; as you acknowledge, it's the first. So without it, we wouldn't have all the other TTRPGs (both good and bad) for people to ... um .... release upon.More importantly, OD&amp;D as originally released wasn't so much a complete game (really, try playing just &quot;the rules&quot; of the LBBs) so much as it was a toolkit. Almost all of the games in the 1970s were based off of OD&amp;D, either because they were DM's notes that were later polished up and released as separate games, or because they were written in reaction to and based off of OD&amp;D. In addition, there was a strong culture of play that emerged from it; it's impossible to understand OD&amp;D without understanding the culture, the zines, and many different ways that people played OD&amp;D. (This is covered in The Elusive Shift).To summarize- I find the idea that OD&amp;D was the &quot;worst&quot; TTRPG to be a difficult one to accept for a multitude of reasons. Instead, it's best to remember that it was something else that rhymed with worst, but starts with an &quot;f.&quot;ETA- that said, to quote The Dude, that's like, your opinion, man. And you're welcome to have it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9243300, member: 7023840"] Well, I don't think you can call OD&D the "worst" RPG ever made for a very simple reason; as you acknowledge, it's the first. So without it, we wouldn't have all the other TTRPGs (both good and bad) for people to ... um .... release upon. More importantly, OD&D as originally released wasn't so much a complete game (really, try playing just "the rules" of the LBBs) so much as it was a toolkit. Almost all of the games in the 1970s were based off of OD&D, either because they were DM's notes that were later polished up and released as separate games, or because they were written in reaction to and based off of OD&D. In addition, there was a strong culture of play that emerged from it; it's impossible to understand OD&D without understanding the culture, the zines, and many different ways that people played OD&D. (This is covered in [I]The Elusive Shift).[/I] To summarize- I find the idea that OD&D was the "worst" TTRPG to be a difficult one to accept for a multitude of reasons. Instead, it's best to remember that it was something else that rhymed with worst, but starts with an "f." ETA- that said, to quote The Dude, that's like, your opinion, man. And you're welcome to have it! :) [/QUOTE]

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