tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post1900901714465333028..comments2024-03-27T23:28:19.341-07:00Comments on Telecanter's Receding Rules: Arguing on the InternetTelecanterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-66730301360675785872009-07-16T18:50:12.819-07:002009-07-16T18:50:12.819-07:00Thanks, for posting guys!
@Kilgore. I hear you. ...Thanks, for posting guys!<br /><br />@Kilgore. I hear you. I wouldn't say it's "clearly better." I think I probably just didn't get what the math was back when I was playing 1e because of the charts or some math deficiency of my own :). Knowing that characters just have to roll over enemy AC just seems clearer to me now, cleaner. If you were designing D&D tomorrow would you start with 9 and go down for AC?<br /><br />@Josh, don't get me wrong, I don't see it as people needing to justify themselves. Hell, I like to think of myself as old school but I'm playing Swords & Wizardry primarily because of ascending AC. I guess I just want to think the rules can change and become simpler, cleaner, easier to use. That won't happen if someone shuts off discussion by saying everyone plays differently and they are all valid ways to play.<br /><br />Even if the core rules don't change discussion gives me ideas for my house rulings.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-86462678968257467992009-07-16T13:32:50.520-07:002009-07-16T13:32:50.520-07:00I personally do not feel I need to justify why I l...I personally do not feel I need to justify why I like the things I do and the way I play. I don't like the attitude of 'if you're old school you do it this way'. It is possibly the one thing that keeps me outside the OSR movement and based in C&C.Joshua Sherrerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17308286154275114804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-91245796038818182872009-07-16T11:28:54.735-07:002009-07-16T11:28:54.735-07:00I am also often frustrated by the "you can do...I am also often frustrated by the "you can do it however you want!" answers to questions about how to do something in a game. Though it's nice to be reminded that we are each ultimately the final arbiter, if that's the answer I wanted I wouldn't have asked in the first place.<br /><br />In the case of the DAC vs. AAC debate, however, I just cannot fathom the necessity of debating the issue. If you need a 14 to hit the orc, you need a 14 to hit the orc. All the ideas out there all end up with 14 being the target number to hit the orc, and all the formulas used to get there end up getting there.<br /><br />None of the various methods are difficult in the slightest way. I hear claims that "adding is easier than subtracting," but we're talking about numbers under 20 here. If the main reason that AAC is "clearly better" is that 9+5 is easer to compute than 20-6, there's not much to say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com