What is the essence of D&D

[Garthanos]

No one's claiming 1E is perfect, I use 2E fireball instead or B/X even.

It was work with no payback... and 4e was very little work with modularized mechanics each power being insular no looking things up like 3e and no advanced math nothing. The experience point encounter design system was easy. AND worked.

 

[Garthanos]

All classes had pertinent choices in combat (is that the work... you are talking about) so roboting through combat to get to talking again was less easy. DMing 4e is trivial heck player pick one of those cards use the ability is not really so hard...

 

[S'mon]

Spell casters in 1e calculating the expansions of a fireball... yay for geometry at the game table now that was work.

I once had a Drow mage cast a 1e Fireball in a 10' x 10' tunnel and wipe out the Fighter PC's entire 120-strong army of followers!

 

[Garthanos]

I once had a Drow mage cast a 1e Fireball in a 10' x 10' tunnel and wipe out the Fighter PC's entire 120-strong army of followers!

A pyramid room in one corner and a tubular egress in another... insanity on the math field Oh and them irregular splits in walll ...

 

[Zardnaar]

I once had a Drow mage cast a 1e Fireball in a 10' x 10' tunnel and wipe out the Fighter PC's entire 120-strong army of followers!

And yet you remember it perhaps fondly.

Also you played a Drow. You deserved it (ducks).

 

[Garthanos]

lets stick with rooms shaped like squares so the game works better and a dungeon is a maze all linear connecting them.

 

[Garthanos]

And yet you remember it perhaps fondly.

I remember the hour and a half of a DM doing geometry not really fondly

 

[Garthanos]

I remember having my first root canal very very well... it was necessary

 

[Zardnaar]

lets stick with rooms shaped like squares so the game works better and a dungeon is a maze all linear connecting them.

That's an improvement over a few 4E adventures in Dungeon.

 

[S'mon]

lets stick with rooms shaped like squares so the game works better and a dungeon is a maze all linear connecting them.

Are you PWD?