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From: euren@ttds.UUCP (Leif Euren)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Anything but D&D
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 13:20:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 13:20:25 1985
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Quote I C Gordon:
>DOES ANYONE PLAY ANY OTHER GAME OTHER THAN D&D ?

	And I wonder, WHY are we playing nothing but [A]D&D?  Myself, I do
it because it has some great advantages:

	Combat - is fast and fair and has just as much luck-dependance to
make it a thrill. With luck, you may slay a slightly more powerful enemy,
but there are sure deaths too.

	Balance - is not very hard to achieve. I think it's easy to create
balanced adventures (as TSR's modules are not).

	Rules - exist in a unparallelled vastness, even without non-TSR
extensions|modifications|variations. Everything (almost) is covered; and if
it's not there is certain some similar case that be used as base for own
rules. A DM may choose what he like, and discard the rest.

	Character Classes - though severely restricting the players i their
choice of character personality, it greatly helps the DM create interesting
NPCs.  And even the most simple NPC is more interesting than a monster.

	A Life of its Own - as seen in this newsgroup. The original rules
were in some cases so bad that they had to be modified. Players exchange
their modifications (as said above) and other ideas, which mostly makes the
game better, easier and more exciting to play. This atract the interest from
new players to the game, thus breeding even more modifications and ideas in
the end.


	May I say, as a final statement to my defence, that I don't like
[A]D&D when played 'by the book'. But I certaily enjoy/enjoyed every
AD&D-based campaign I've had the luck to be in.

							Leif Euren