Post by ripx187 on Sept 18, 2017 19:16:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure where all of this heat on Admin Pete is coming from, but I don't like it. I know that I am an opinionated big mouth, but I am still just a student here. There are forums for general RPG, for general D&D, for D20, OSR, you name it, they got a community. I go to many of them, but I come here to learn about OD&D. I come here to be taught by masters. I consider many of the folks who call this place home to be my peers and teachers.
I don't play modules. I don't buy anything OSR related. I have no interest in Pathfinder, or d20 nor 5e. When I first started gaming way back in the 1990's I was told lies about what OD&D was. I didn't come here seeking OD&D, but I did stick around to learn it. I am used to AD&D, been using it for years; what these guys do is different. In this forum, you can unlearn what you think that you know. It is a resource that I really dig and I am learning at a faster rate than ever before because of these ladies and gentlemen. I share when I think that I have something worth sharing, and I ask questions when I think that one needs to be asked. But, here is the deal: I have always read more then I write. ALWAYS.
I've never been one of those guys who claim to have the perfect game. I am always learning, always unhappy with my own work and seeking ways to improve it. When something goes bad, I don't hide it. I have always learned more from epic failures than I ever did by succeeding on the first try.
I believe that OD&D is a much better way to store and record data than the way that I was originally taught. In other systems, much of the formula is hidden and buried, in OD&D this formula is open. This is the basic building blocks of design and while I'm sure that you love telling everybody about your shiny little turd, and how you altered them to fit your needs, not to sound like a jerk, but I don't care. If you want to organize your own system data in public, do what I did and start a blog. I might want to read it there, but not here.
As basic as OD&D looks, it isn't. As a game, this is much better than AD&D. It allows us to create systems which are functional on all levels and for our individual tables; systems which are both static and dynamic depending upon the users needs at the time. I have play-tested and incorperated many theories and principles which I have learned from THIS forum, and have been sold on each and every one of them because of how it affected my game.
For that, I thank you. To those of you who have never read the OD&D handbooks, and have no interest in learning the basics of design, or are here to argue with the masters at this forum who have played this system successfully for decades: please mark your posts in a way that I can ignore them.
Compare your current system with OD&D, and you will start to notice things which suck about it. The creators of AD&D didn't play AD&D, they played OD&D. . . or maybe even something different from that. There is a mystery to be solved here, and it is a rewarding one. AD&D and beyond did its best to cover all of this stuff up. Why did they do this? Why is it that folks like PD can run the same system for 40+ years and still entertain others without getting bored of it? What is he doing that allows him to DM for anybody at any time without any prep? Gygax could do that too, but Gygax is dead, PD isn't.
I don't play modules. I don't buy anything OSR related. I have no interest in Pathfinder, or d20 nor 5e. When I first started gaming way back in the 1990's I was told lies about what OD&D was. I didn't come here seeking OD&D, but I did stick around to learn it. I am used to AD&D, been using it for years; what these guys do is different. In this forum, you can unlearn what you think that you know. It is a resource that I really dig and I am learning at a faster rate than ever before because of these ladies and gentlemen. I share when I think that I have something worth sharing, and I ask questions when I think that one needs to be asked. But, here is the deal: I have always read more then I write. ALWAYS.
I've never been one of those guys who claim to have the perfect game. I am always learning, always unhappy with my own work and seeking ways to improve it. When something goes bad, I don't hide it. I have always learned more from epic failures than I ever did by succeeding on the first try.
I believe that OD&D is a much better way to store and record data than the way that I was originally taught. In other systems, much of the formula is hidden and buried, in OD&D this formula is open. This is the basic building blocks of design and while I'm sure that you love telling everybody about your shiny little turd, and how you altered them to fit your needs, not to sound like a jerk, but I don't care. If you want to organize your own system data in public, do what I did and start a blog. I might want to read it there, but not here.
As basic as OD&D looks, it isn't. As a game, this is much better than AD&D. It allows us to create systems which are functional on all levels and for our individual tables; systems which are both static and dynamic depending upon the users needs at the time. I have play-tested and incorperated many theories and principles which I have learned from THIS forum, and have been sold on each and every one of them because of how it affected my game.
For that, I thank you. To those of you who have never read the OD&D handbooks, and have no interest in learning the basics of design, or are here to argue with the masters at this forum who have played this system successfully for decades: please mark your posts in a way that I can ignore them.
Compare your current system with OD&D, and you will start to notice things which suck about it. The creators of AD&D didn't play AD&D, they played OD&D. . . or maybe even something different from that. There is a mystery to be solved here, and it is a rewarding one. AD&D and beyond did its best to cover all of this stuff up. Why did they do this? Why is it that folks like PD can run the same system for 40+ years and still entertain others without getting bored of it? What is he doing that allows him to DM for anybody at any time without any prep? Gygax could do that too, but Gygax is dead, PD isn't.
