What would Gary do?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hey! I thought we agreed to disagree!

No, we didn't!

I don't believe that game design was ever random, and the more that I examine the issues that cropped up with 3e (and with the transition to 4e), the more amazed I am at how well put-together the original game was.

We certainly agree, though, that no version of a game will be the best possible version for every player.

RC

Maybe I really should take a look back at the older editions, but - well, since I am not seriously considering playing them, it would probably a waste of money and time. (the latter is the bigger problem, the books can't be that expensive)
But from what I read about AD&D on these boards, I am not so convinced. But the original game, I just know that it seems to rules-light for my taste - but that doesn't mean it was not well put together (but maybe it was easier then, if you have to cover less ground with the rules?).

 

[apoptosis]

Perhaps, but evolution and natural selection are not the same thing (although related). Evolution can occur without natural selection (such as where a species evolves due to a change in environment that opens a new ecological niche, but the original species remains to fill the original niche, or when an environmental change seperates two groups of the same species so that their evolutionary paths are likewise seperated).

RC

Actually the first example is pretty classic natural selection. Whenever an organism adapts to a new niche it pretty much requires natural selection.


Now if you meant genetic drift then you are correct and that does not require natural selection.

i turn my pedantic mode off now