tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post8990086636367714365..comments2024-03-27T23:46:11.890-07:00Comments on Beyond the Black Gate: Random ThoughtsAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682401446176099294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-70088542434273337292009-08-09T20:46:06.240-07:002009-08-09T20:46:06.240-07:00I have had a tough time with published settings. T...I have had a tough time with published settings. They are someone else's idea of "What should be". Warhammer: a great idea for pc games and novels, too much of a pain to make your own for an rpg. This is also how I see a big publisher working things, to maximize profit via an overabundance of detail (read "splatbooks"). There is nothing wrong with profit, but, as I said before, if you are going for the big time, skip the big rpg people all together and find a place in other areas. Any big rpg publisher will obviously want the product to reflect their interests rather than just follow what a smaller publisher wants, so why even give them the time? Find another market completely and push the oldschool mindset. Sorry if I am making a redundant post on your blog, Al, but at this point I feel that the longer the "big guys" stay out the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3094937232522894470.post-8806508117301295542009-08-09T03:55:04.703-07:002009-08-09T03:55:04.703-07:00I started playing an OD&D game last year and e...I started playing an OD&D game last year and ended up turning to my battered Moldvay Basic book everytime something came up that I wasn't sure about. Back when I was a kid, we played B/X but between us our group had the 1st ed DMG, PHB, MM, FF, and Deities & Demi-goods. We also used a ton of AD&D classes, monsters, and magic items from White Dwarf.<br /><br />Now I'm using S&W (White Book & Core), LL and B/X, and Mentzer Basic/Expert but yeah, like you and your group I think I'm just playing 'D&D'.<br /><br />Not sure how I'd feel about a 'big company' making a rosetta clone. For me it's prolly too late, I like S&W too much. Even though B/X is my fav version of D&D I don't tend to look at my LL pdf as S&W is close enough. Mind you, if I didn't still have B/X books I'd use LL more I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com