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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7769508" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think many sections of the hobby reacted in different ways to 3E (how could you not it was an enormous boom and the way the game was played was quite reshaped by so much of that system). Don't get me wrong. I played a ton of 3E and loved it. I just found there were changes to the game culture and to the game that frustrated me after a while (and in specific types of campaigns). I do think it is true that the OSR and the story game crowds both were often trying to address the same problem or frustration. They just tend to answer the problems in strikingly different ways. Both were frustrated by 90s storytelling approaches and by railroads, but both seem to have answered those problems very differently. The OSR response to railroad is largely emphasizing sandbox and world in motion, while the story response (just judging by some of the conversations I've had here with narrative gamers) seems to be giving players more narrative control. Both these things resolve the railroad issue, but they produce completely different types of play.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7769508, member: 85555"] I think many sections of the hobby reacted in different ways to 3E (how could you not it was an enormous boom and the way the game was played was quite reshaped by so much of that system). Don't get me wrong. I played a ton of 3E and loved it. I just found there were changes to the game culture and to the game that frustrated me after a while (and in specific types of campaigns). I do think it is true that the OSR and the story game crowds both were often trying to address the same problem or frustration. They just tend to answer the problems in strikingly different ways. Both were frustrated by 90s storytelling approaches and by railroads, but both seem to have answered those problems very differently. The OSR response to railroad is largely emphasizing sandbox and world in motion, while the story response (just judging by some of the conversations I've had here with narrative gamers) seems to be giving players more narrative control. Both these things resolve the railroad issue, but they produce completely different types of play. [/QUOTE]

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