Vaalingrade
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Nope.shhhhh us Gen Xers like it that way
If I'm going to be blames for killing paper towels and canned tuna, you're getting something too.
Nope.shhhhh us Gen Xers like it that way
Like many things in TSR-era D&D/AD&D, I've seen plenty of individual groups try it. Many-to-most giving up quickly*, mostly because of convenience challenges tended to dwarf the benefits.*Yes, I know there might have been some people who played like this, but I've never met one in real life and I'm confident they were the exception rather than the rule.
This is true, but I feel kinda an issue with Youtube in general. I'm told that the viewership dropoff on older material is huge, so quick, constant content made to keep a recent video up in peoples' feeds is optimal compared to thoughtful, well-researched videos which one only puts out when one has something new and insightful to say. Likewise, comments and views count regardless of whether they are positive or not, so saying something wrong and getting people to do what we're doing (sharing the video amongst ourselves to comment on how it is wrong), and perhaps leaving a comment below it to the same effect benefits the creator. I'm not saying all creators play into this, but there's an incentive to do so, and you are more likely to see the ones who do on your feed.Personally I find D&D-tube to be insufferable, even for modern games. Its all either click-baity video-game style lists or memes and sketch comedy. Or Actual Plays, but that's a different beast entirely.
There are definitely potential uses for the rule. Potentially why it was there in the first place.The place where I've found a rule like this useful is when running a single world with multiple groups of players. You can also run them as parallel universes but in terms of tracking information, if you do something approaching real world time, it gets around a lot of issues that can come up (not every issue though).
There's plenty enough blame to go around (along with the point others have made that it's a vocal minority in each group that are problematic). Also blame the general tendency of people trying to create subgroups within fandom and then fight verbal turf wars; and/or trying to seem smart or knowledgeable on the internet as a social cachet.Don't blame the younger people; blame the old dudes screaming at the younger people about how they're not doing it right and then telling them how their table did things as if that was the One True Way.
The certainly did. Or at least there was travel between worlds. Chirine Ba Kal (MAR Barker archivist) has a great story of people buying up iron from Blackmoor and Greyhawk and selling it for gold in iron-poor Tekumel and crashing all 3 economies.this is what i think you took wrong... I don't think he meant people all over the world I think he meant gary and his friends (and by extension any group of friends)
I'd add 3. even though it's still a pain to find people playing not-D&D, there are more options out there.Arguably, it was more diverse than today, in terms of D&D, for a few reasons- (1. ; 2. )
That would require anyone noticing we exist at all.You know... Gen X actually seems to have gotten away scot-free in the Aging Wars. You don't see anyone hating on them or blaming them for anything.
I think the OSR community would be better off if we embraced our styles of play with much less emphasis on discovery of a forgotten path. It frankly does not matter how things used to be done. We have a cohesive set of principles and fabulous games like Into The Odd and Old School Essentials. No reading of tea leaves are necessary.
Nope.
If I'm going to be blames for killing paper towels and canned tuna, you're getting something too.
Yea! Nobody told me to hoard em! What ami gonna do?!Now I'm curious; what happened to paper towels and canned tuna?
Ah, memories...
- The bar of entry was incredibly low. Someone who had never even heard of D&D could be ready to play in 20 minutes, and be playing like a seasoned veteran 2 hours later. All the books and dice you needed were sold in a boxed set for $19 at the mall.
Millennials and/or Gen Z are 'killing' them by not buying them. I've seen the same vague suggestion about ironing boards, canned vegetables (and any canned food combo like fruit cocktail or three-bean salad), mayonnaise, home ownership, and any hobby not screen-related (the recent housing boom and Covid-related resurgence in maker-arts kinda took the wind out of the sails of the last two points).Now I'm curious; what happened to paper towels and canned tuna?
Millennials and/or Gen Z are 'killing' them by not buying them. I've seen the same vague suggestion about ironing boards, canned vegetables (and any canned food combo like fruit cocktail or three-bean salad), home ownership, and any hobby not screen-related (the recent housing boom and Covid-related resurgence in maker-arts kinda took the wind out of the sails of the last two points).
No thanks, just all white albacore in water for me.For all the canned tuna doubters, try tuna canned with olive oil, it will change how you think about canned tuna.