Meguey Baker I totally agree with the spirit of it. I be live it’s true if the Dragon has 16 or 60hp.
Even playing D&D I often run Epic6 style of play. Max level for all characters is 6. Kepping the epic creatures epic.
Why I think this belongs here: not everything has to be epic and huge and massive. In PbtA games, especially AW, sometimes the most intense thing is how the heck do we deal with the infestation of biting midges.
This is why I love games like Dungeon World. Plot-based immunities and difficulties are better than two hours of ‘I attack it with my sword’ chipping away at numbers. I’m pleased my group polymorphed a monk into a giant gorilla who wrestled a dragon at the end of HotDQ in D&D 5th. They have learnt well from these games.
Meguey Baker You’re not allowed to call them that anymore. The proper noun is “children”. 😛
Methinks the author hath put a finger on the one element of OSR that drives me nuts. Bookmarking for later (ab)use and application in the field.
I am still trying to determine the draw of OSR… I just don’t get it.
Shane Liebling Nostalgia, characters that can fit on a 3×5 index card, and mechanics that are so familiar that you don’t have to look most of them up again. 🙂
Henry de Veuve Nostalgia rarely delivers in reality as well as it does on your memory. I kind of understand the other things (though the latter can both be seen in a system that has minimal mechanics or one you have eventually developed “mastery” of).
I think my biggest questions have to do with the mismatched power dynamic (dm/referee vs. players)… The Final Arbiter Of All (who is the end all be all of rules and rulings – but does not have rules they must follow per se) vs. Those who are at the former’s mercy.
Maybe it is like Doms and Subs? (And absolutely no judgment in that analogy… I have plenty of friends in both those camps.)
Shane Liebling, you seem to have a strange and distorted view of how gaming was played 40 years ago. Then, as now, players voted with their feet. Then, as now, there were GM of varied skill levels and intent.
(Just a brief note that this is not the bash the OSR thread. Kthnx)
As Meguey Baker said, I keep my copies of dungeon world on the same shelf as Basic fantasy, castles & crusades, and Swords and wizardry. Matter of a fact…..the covers are touching each other. They get along, why can’t we.
Joey Mullins , what’s your take on the article?
This makes me smile 🙂
Meguey Baker I totally agree with the spirit of it. I be live it’s true if the Dragon has 16 or 60hp.
Even playing D&D I often run Epic6 style of play. Max level for all characters is 6. Kepping the epic creatures epic.
Why I think this belongs here: not everything has to be epic and huge and massive. In PbtA games, especially AW, sometimes the most intense thing is how the heck do we deal with the infestation of biting midges.
This is why I love games like Dungeon World. Plot-based immunities and difficulties are better than two hours of ‘I attack it with my sword’ chipping away at numbers. I’m pleased my group polymorphed a monk into a giant gorilla who wrestled a dragon at the end of HotDQ in D&D 5th. They have learnt well from these games.
Meguey Baker You’re not allowed to call them that anymore. The proper noun is “children”. 😛
Methinks the author hath put a finger on the one element of OSR that drives me nuts. Bookmarking for later (ab)use and application in the field.
I am still trying to determine the draw of OSR… I just don’t get it.
Shane Liebling Nostalgia, characters that can fit on a 3×5 index card, and mechanics that are so familiar that you don’t have to look most of them up again. 🙂
Henry de Veuve Nostalgia rarely delivers in reality as well as it does on your memory. I kind of understand the other things (though the latter can both be seen in a system that has minimal mechanics or one you have eventually developed “mastery” of).
I think my biggest questions have to do with the mismatched power dynamic (dm/referee vs. players)… The Final Arbiter Of All (who is the end all be all of rules and rulings – but does not have rules they must follow per se) vs. Those who are at the former’s mercy.
Maybe it is like Doms and Subs? (And absolutely no judgment in that analogy… I have plenty of friends in both those camps.)
Shane Liebling, you seem to have a strange and distorted view of how gaming was played 40 years ago. Then, as now, players voted with their feet. Then, as now, there were GM of varied skill levels and intent.
(Just a brief note that this is not the bash the OSR thread. Kthnx)
As Meguey Baker said, I keep my copies of dungeon world on the same shelf as Basic fantasy, castles & crusades, and Swords and wizardry. Matter of a fact…..the covers are touching each other. They get along, why can’t we.
Fair enough, comment deleted.