Re: OSRIC 3.0 announced

spallshurgenson@gmail.com wrote:

Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 5/23/2024 1:03 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

spallshurgenson@gmail.com wrote:

Meh. If I'm playing old-school* then I'm playing old-school with my
original rules-books. My creaky, held-together-with-duct-tape rule
books.

 
Don't make me Troll-O-Meter you, bro!
 
The original rules were nigh indestructable, although the Unearth Arcana
never seemed to last more than a couple years of use.

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Yet another reason not to use UA.

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Even as an uncouth and crass young(er) player at the time, I wasn't
fond of Unearthed Arcana. It wasn't that a lot of the ideas didn't
appeal to me, but they all felt poorly integrated with the greater
game. They were good ideas tossed into the pot without consideration
for how they affected the overall game balance and style. These days
I'd accuse the developers of 'kitchen-sinking'* the game; throwing in
new ideas without a real understanding of its effects, just to say
that they've added something new.

If memory serves, a lot of the ideas came from Dragon Magazine and were
meant to be a mix of errtta, clarifications, and new material. I especially
appreciated the boost to demi-human level limits.

* I'm gonna make this phrase happen, just you watch.

I thought it already was, or already has a phrase.

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Let's go Brandon!