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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 16, 2016 13:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by hengest on Jan 18, 2016 17:15:05 GMT -5
I read Laycock's book a few months back. Enjoyed it. Some of the facts may be old newa to many around here, but his interpretations are pretty clear and reasonable, with relevance well beyond the RPG world.
He does make the same point many times, but I think he more or less justifies the length of the book in a way many academic authors don't.
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Post by hengest on Apr 2, 2021 1:32:02 GMT -5
I just re-read this article (link still good) and it has several excellent quotes by Laycock. Entirely worth a read. Reminds me how everything that is important to people has to be assumed to have some kind of eternal relevance. This kind of game is somewhat exceptional in that literally any part can be discarded although the importance of the game itself it still recognized by enthusiasts. There is a freedom here that is scary to some who feel that all things should be played BtB. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 2, 2021 10:12:35 GMT -5
Yeah, there are a lot of good articles out there and I think this one is a good jumping off point of ideas for DMs.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 2, 2021 23:48:39 GMT -5
I just re-read this article (link still good) and it has several excellent quotes by Laycock. Entirely worth a read. Reminds me how everything that is important to people has to be assumed to have some kind of eternal relevance. This kind of game is somewhat exceptional in that literally any part can be discarded although the importance of the game itself it still recognized by enthusiasts. There is a freedom here that is scary to some who feel that all things should be played BtB. If you have read the entirety of OD&D (the three little brown books) and are trying to play it BtB and are preaching BtB play to others, then sadly you did not understand what you read. It is both explicit and implicit that BtB has nothing to do with the game. That concept/philosophy is literally spelled out early in volume one. |
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Post by hengest on Jan 17, 2022 20:14:55 GMT -5
If you have read the entirety of OD&D (the three little brown books) and are trying to play it BtB and are preaching BtB play to others, then sadly you did not understand what you read. It is both explicit and implicit that BtB has nothing to do with the game. That concept/philosophy is literally spelled out early in volume one. Obedience is the new innovation. RJK and others have argued clearly about why the business model and presentation of the game changed. I still can't shake the feeling that it's connected to a larger cultural change. Once Shane was a hero. Now he wouldn't be a hero, and being a hero is seriously questionable. |
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