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Re: d20 BrikWars
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lugnet.gaming
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Fri, 31 May 2002 19:53:27 GMT
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I know a lot of people have reservations about the d20 system. It is far
from perfect, and has its own peculiar brand of illogic (hey, paladin, why
dont you put on the sorcerer's Cloak of Charisma so you can heal more
damage) but still manages to do what d&d has always done: provide decent
rules for heroic fantasy.
And despite its flaws, it has the single most important feature of any
gaming system: it's fun to play. The new combat rules are more detailed
and infinately more interesting than previous versions of d&d. They are
just detailed enough, in fact, that my friends and I always use lego
miniatures during combat, yet it still doesn't feel like just a tabletop
wargame (half our group likes wargames, the other half doesn't, but we all
like the new d&d combat).
d20 Castle World sounds like an interesting proposition, though I fear the
logistics involved. Especially the part where one would have to get
everyone to agree on something. But it still might be a fun experiment.
And, for anyone who's interested, the entire d20 core rules (Player's
Handbook, DM Guide and Monster Manual) can be found online here:
http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html
-William
P.S. No one in my gaming group is actually so gauche as to change clothes
with the sorcerer for reasons of pure game mechanics, but we do joke about
it all the time.
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| (...) I'm not sure more complex combat systems are really the way to go. While I feel a combat system needs enough detail to make combat interesting, too much detail makes combats take too long. (...) with the core rules. Well, I will have to spend (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| I'm probably the last one to hear about this, but I just got a nice long e-mail from a guy named Jeffrey Schecter that clued me in to this thing Wizards of the Coast is doing, essentially giving free license to any Joe off the street to use Dungeons (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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