Re: OT: RPGs (was Re: Conlangs in RPGs...)

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Mario Bonassin wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > AD&D is a terrible system compared to what's available these days, but
> > it's one of the best-known for heroic fantasy.
>
> Don't know how in touch you are to the gaming world but its no longer AD&D its
> just D&D.  the 3rd edition has utterly changed the game.  Its a far more enjoyable
> and easy game system and with the open game license anyone can create settings and
> stuff and publish it.  And after 20 years of gaming I like that idea.
Well, I know people who are still playing 1st ed. AD&D, so I use the
term.  xD&D, then.  :-p

3rd ed. for me was a case of too little too late; having 20 systems in my
collection, I no longer buy for system but for setting, and the only
*remotely* interesting (to me) setting T$R/xD&D ever produced was
Al-Qadim.  I tend to play freeform, L5R (it's popular in the area) or
use Over the Edge (next best thing for freeform).

YHL