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<blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 6201860" data-attributes="member: 6688858">The game you play when you want to play the current edition of D&amp;D. DDN will be the cheap chain restaurant pizza of the RPG world. Nobody will think it's great, but most people will think it's good enough.I think you're overstating the similarity between Next and AD&amp;D. I&nbsp; can't imagine this game being designed in 1999 without the influence of&nbsp; 3e and 4e. That would represent a huge and bizarre leap away from 2e.I've heard some people praise how easy it is to convert old modules to&nbsp; Next, but I don't see why--you can't use...literally any of the game&nbsp; stats on the page. You would have to substitute Next's version of&nbsp; monsters, treasure, XP, damage. So I don't see how it's any&nbsp; easier to convert them to Next than almost any other RPG with the same fantasy adventure game assumptions. I&nbsp; guess the idea is that the relative balance of monsters/treasure and PCs&nbsp; is more AD&amp;Dish in Next than 3e or 4e? So if the module says that a&nbsp; room has 11 Orcs in it, you can use 11 Next Orcs instead of&nbsp; creating a different encounter?I can already think of one case where that's definitely not true: in&nbsp; old AD&amp;D modules Rings of Invisibility are pretty common, but in Next&nbsp; they're a Legendary item.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Libramarian, post: 6201860, member: 6688858"] The game you play when you want to play the current edition of D&D. DDN will be the cheap chain restaurant pizza of the RPG world. Nobody will think it's great, but most people will think it's good enough. I think you're overstating the similarity between Next and AD&D. I can't imagine this game being designed in 1999 without the influence of 3e and 4e. That would represent a huge and bizarre leap away from 2e. I've heard some people praise how easy it is to convert old modules to Next, but I don't see why--you can't use...literally any of the game stats on the page. You would have to substitute Next's version of monsters, treasure, XP, damage. So I don't see how it's any easier to convert them to Next than almost any other RPG with the same fantasy adventure game assumptions. I guess the idea is that the relative balance of monsters/treasure and PCs is more AD&Dish in Next than 3e or 4e? So if the module says that a room has 11 Orcs in it, you can use 11 Next Orcs instead of creating a different encounter? I can already think of one case where that's definitely not true: in old AD&D modules Rings of Invisibility are pretty common, but in Next they're a Legendary item. [/QUOTE]

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