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<blockquote data-quote="Katemare" data-source="post: 5686608" data-attributes="member: 80996"><p>Thank you very much, I've read all your replies with great interest! So, in the end, early RPG community was much like the present one: it was different. It consisted neither of dungeon crawlers nor pure <em>role</em>-players. Nice to know %) I often hear one or the other presumption from modern-day gamers. I even made them myself.</p><p></p><p>Also, the info about the origin of wargame/RPG holy war was new for me! We have it a lot in Russian community, too, even though there never were any RPG clubs in CIS area (only group-to-group contacts and occasional town meeting). I think the roots of it are that AD&D came to CIS first, and some time after came universal games like Fudge, Fuzion, GEM, and then story-centered games like World of Darkness. Almost historical order. So, (A)D&D is criticized as being "primitive", close to what RPGs were when they wasn't really developed yet. Well, I've read this kind of argues at EN World too, so you know the drill... (I, personally, like every style of gameplay! As long as the game is good.)</p><p></p><p>Ok, time to relay the discovered information to our guys %) Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katemare, post: 5686608, member: 80996"] Thank you very much, I've read all your replies with great interest! So, in the end, early RPG community was much like the present one: it was different. It consisted neither of dungeon crawlers nor pure [I]role[/I]-players. Nice to know %) I often hear one or the other presumption from modern-day gamers. I even made them myself. Also, the info about the origin of wargame/RPG holy war was new for me! We have it a lot in Russian community, too, even though there never were any RPG clubs in CIS area (only group-to-group contacts and occasional town meeting). I think the roots of it are that AD&D came to CIS first, and some time after came universal games like Fudge, Fuzion, GEM, and then story-centered games like World of Darkness. Almost historical order. So, (A)D&D is criticized as being "primitive", close to what RPGs were when they wasn't really developed yet. Well, I've read this kind of argues at EN World too, so you know the drill... (I, personally, like every style of gameplay! As long as the game is good.) Ok, time to relay the discovered information to our guys %) Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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