Friday, May 31, 2013

AD&D

I admit I'm not a fan of the "old school" style of play.  A lot of it seems to hinge heavily on metagaming.  If one of your characters died because of brown mold, how do the other ones magically know how to avoid it?  How does one of your characters who is on their first trip out of their home town know to check a long abandoned crypt for live traps on the door handles?  If no one in the group survives the Beholder fight, how does the next group know to be wary of it?  So many questions, not nearly enough answers.

Art from GIS for "Tomb of Horrors"
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3 comments:

  1. Philo PharynxJune 3, 2013 at 7:55 AM

    Racial memory? Transmigration of souls? Wait, elves don't have souls...

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  2. LooneyJune 3, 2013 at 8:01 PM

    Funny you should mention racial memory. The orks in warhammer 40K had something like that going. It's what kept their society progressing, as far as ork progress can be considered progress.

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  3. Greg JohnstonJuly 14, 2013 at 5:51 PM

    Meta-gaming happens in any edition of D&D/Pathfinder.

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