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RPGPundit Answers YOUR Questions: Old School and "New School"

Started by RPGPundit, March 10, 2017, 01:26:22 AM

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Spinachcat

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June 23, 2017, 02:51:21 AM
Quote from: jhkim;969175For me, in the early 1980s I was a pre-teen playing Champions with very deep, involved chargen that would take me hours. Today I'm much more into rules-light, fast-chargen systems like Fate Accelerated. So I have the opposite association.

Excellent point about Champions.

I loved Champions and Space Opera in the 80s. I would never play something so rules heavy today.


Quote from: jhkim;969175There are plenty of differences between the population of games circa 1980 and the population of games today, but there is no simple split of "Old School" and "New School", in my opinion.

The main Old School vs. New School split I see is in D&D. Few other RPGs went through such radical design changes during their lifespan. The "Old School" editions D&D of TSR is quite different than the "New School" editions of WotC.

In fact, I am unsure which other major RPG went through such major design changes. CoC, Shadowrun, Vampire, RQ, have strong commonality from Version One to Now. I guess the closest to D&D's level of changes would be Traveller (LBBs to 2300 to New Era to T4 to T20 to MongTrav). I would use Gamma World as an example, but GW has always been a D&D's weirdo cousin who gets experimented on each new edition.

jhkim

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June 26, 2017, 03:09:37 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;970867The main Old School vs. New School split I see is in D&D. Few other RPGs went through such radical design changes during their lifespan. The "Old School" editions D&D of TSR is quite different than the "New School" editions of WotC.

In fact, I am unsure which other major RPG went through such major design changes. CoC, Shadowrun, Vampire, RQ, have strong commonality from Version One to Now. I guess the closest to D&D's level of changes would be Traveller (LBBs to 2300 to New Era to T4 to T20 to MongTrav). I would use Gamma World as an example, but GW has always been a D&D's weirdo cousin who gets experimented on each new edition.
I agree that there has been a lot of change, but I also think that a lot of the change was during the TSR era. I think the difference between 0th ed (Greyhawk) and AD&D is pretty huge, at least as major as the change from 2nd ed to 3rd ed.
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