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Confessions of an old school gamer: I don't like Dungeon Crawls anymore.

Started by The Exploited., June 20, 2017, 08:15:22 AM

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#150
July 03, 2017, 12:07:46 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;972814If youre ever in the San Diego area let me know; I can show you how badly I run D&D games. I mean, I hardly even use hobbits, for the love o' Mike. :D

Damn! I'm based in Europe.

A man that hardly uses Hobbits?! That's sweet music to my ears. :) Now, if we can only get rid of those happy Elves next, we will be doing very well. ;)
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#151
July 03, 2017, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: The Exploited.;972825Damn! I'm based in Europe.

A man that hardly uses Hobbits?! That's sweet music to my ears. :) Now, if we can only get rid of those happy Elves next, we will be doing very well. ;)

Sadly I am not enamored of any of the "Tolkien triumvirate" of hobbits, elves, and dwarves, so I'm always playing fantasy games wrong by using a humanocentric setting more inspired by Robert E. Howard  and Arabian Nights stories.

If I never see a party of human, elf, dwarf, and hobbit again, it will be too soon.

WillInNewHaven

#152
July 03, 2017, 04:52:00 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;972814If youre ever in the San Diego area let me know; I can show you how badly I run D&D games. I mean, I hardly even use hobbits, for the love o' Mike. :D

So what do you throw, run with and kick in your Rugby games?

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#153
July 06, 2017, 08:53:37 PM
Quote from: Voros;972599No, that's too reasonable. There MUST be a objectively WRONG way and a RIGHT way to play.

And there is. The Wrong way is to insist that no one ever go into a dungeon again, or to demand that all D&D play should only be in dungeons and only dungeons exactly the way the Holy Gygax made them.
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#154
July 06, 2017, 09:44:56 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;973683And there is. The Wrong way is to insist that no one ever go into a dungeon again, or to demand that all D&D play should only be in dungeons and only dungeons exactly the way the Holy Gygax made them.

So we're cool with the way the Holy Arneson (may His name be blessed) made them?
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#155
July 06, 2017, 10:40:29 PM
That darn Gygax keeps making me play his way and I'm getting sick and tired of it.

Nexus

#156
July 06, 2017, 11:34:48 PM
Quote from: Harlock;973692So we're cool with the way the Holy Arneson (may His name be blessed) made them?

Pardon?
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#157
July 07, 2017, 12:10:54 AM
Quote from: Dumarest;972845Sadly I am not enamored of any of the "Tolkien triumvirate" of hobbits, elves, and dwarves, so I'm always playing fantasy games wrong by using a humanocentric setting more inspired by Robert E. Howard  and Arabian Nights stories.

If I never see a party of human, elf, dwarf, and hobbit again, it will be too soon.

Gary Gygax would have loved you (according to Gronan) he was not pleased with being badgered into having elves and dwarves and hobbits.  The evidence is there, given his diatribe about how non-human races with their level caps, are not the spirit of D&D, in 2e.
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#158
July 07, 2017, 02:39:10 AM
There's a certain charm in dungeon crawling, i think that not many people can deny that.

crkrueger

#159
July 07, 2017, 03:26:52 AM
Quote from: WillInNewHaven;972870So what do you throw, run with and kick in your Rugby games?

Snotlings, of course, the way Lord Sigmar intended!
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#160
July 07, 2017, 01:45:04 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;970238If you don't like dungeon crawls, don't play them.

Okay, we're done here.  Somebody fetch me a beer.

Still waiting for my damn beer.
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#161
July 07, 2017, 01:59:08 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;973800Still waiting for my damn beer.

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#162
July 07, 2017, 08:45:54 PM
Quote from: WillInNewHaven;972870So what do you throw, run with and kick in your Rugby games

We play Trollball like proper gamers. Go round up a few more trollkin.

Gronan of Simmerya

#163
July 07, 2017, 10:02:06 PM
I just decided that there is a Horrible Menace but that the PCs will be useless until level 20 or so, so Lord Gronan has set up the dungeon as a Darwinistic training grounds for would be heroes.

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