Having dealt with the "players" of those "10 million player RPGs" I'd rather slam my dick in a car door than play one.
"Toughslam" -- Progress from a Kia coupe to the cargo door of a C-130 military transport! Can your dick take being slammed between the unforgiving metal?
(Ted Kozman was the PM for the Texas Superconducting Supercollider, as well as a few NASA projects, before I ran into him as a Project Management professor in grad school)
"There has never been a successful project."
His point was that once the real world has intruded on the schedule/scope/budget, then the project has failed. Finished too fast? Your schedule was bad.
saving throw charts that didn't follow a simple arithmetic progression
-- I think you'll find that although not "simple arithmetic progression," the saving throw charts followed a consistent progression.
hosts of magical spells to choose from
-- As opposed to no or few choices?
spell memorization and related spell slot management to contend with
-- That's how magic works, duh. It worked for my granddaddy, it worked for my daddy, and it worked for me.
totally random variance in spell ranges, areas of effect, and duration
-- Nooo, each spell has its own range/area/duration. You'd find that there are only about 4 different "kinds" of spell range, about 3 different areas of effect and I think 4 durations also, if you looked.
simple character generation and hit point generation
-- That sounds like a bonus.
...that boiled down to "invent your own more fair rules or else just pray you don't end up with a first level Fighter with 1 hit point"
-- You have a Fighter with less than 12 Constitution? Did you read the rules? Did you understand them?
a thieving skill progression chart that likewise didn't follow a fixed, intuitive progression
-- Intuitive I might concede, but it was certainly fixed and consistent. Have you ever heard of a mathematical curve? Doesn't seem like it.
magic resistance that gave a flat chance to negate incoming spells regardless of whether the spellcaster was level 1 or 36
-- This is covered by another poster, but you do know that MR is a VERY rare attribute possessed only by monsters, right?
level drain from undead that meant you had to re-write half your character sheet if your PC got hit a few times.
-- Yeah, it's called a consequence. It was meant to fuck you up & over in order to make the monster feared.
Honestly, it seems like you're whining about the wrong things.
I can't return to original Dungeons and Dragons either - it's simpler than the newer stuff, but even it has a ton of odd and unnecessary complexities and some limits that are very frustrating.
-- I agree that AD&D is probably not my first choice in a gaming system, but people tend to underestimate its strengths and overestimate its flaws.
Pick up a few Level 4-6 modules from Ebay, get your DM to start you as a FIRST LEVEL party, do a test run, then jump into the module. The game is the opposite of fan service.
*Prevented upgrading from Windows Media Player 10 to WMP 11 (Shut up -- Netflix streaming needs '11)
*Tricked a game I was trying to install into thinking there's *NO* DirectX installed.
I rolled back to SP2, and both of these issues were nonexistent.
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Let me know when GeminiDomino Games is hiring mo-cap models... I can think of some people I'd like to volunteer...
Having dealt with the "players" of those "10 million player RPGs" I'd rather slam my dick in a car door than play one.
"Toughslam" -- Progress from a Kia coupe to the cargo door of a C-130 military transport! Can your dick take being slammed between the unforgiving metal?
New this Fall from GeminiDomino Games!
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(Ted Kozman was the PM for the Texas Superconducting Supercollider, as well as a few NASA projects, before I ran into him as a Project Management professor in grad school)
"There has never been a successful project."
His point was that once the real world has intruded on the schedule/scope/budget, then the project has failed. Finished too fast? Your schedule was bad.
Mujadaddy's Corollary to Kozman's Rule:
"...except the second Death Star."
Wait, this site has thingies above the comments? Never noticed.
USELESS without pics.
Shark Attacks in Florida. True Story. There was also Chandra Levy/Gary Condit stuff leading up to that.
...invite your pupil over to kick your football...
...then, at the last possible second, pull it away!
That'll teach em not to be so trusting!
-- I think you'll find that although not "simple arithmetic progression," the saving throw charts followed a consistent progression.
-- As opposed to no or few choices?
-- That's how magic works, duh. It worked for my granddaddy, it worked for my daddy, and it worked for me.
-- Nooo, each spell has its own range/area/duration. You'd find that there are only about 4 different "kinds" of spell range, about 3 different areas of effect and I think 4 durations also, if you looked.
-- That sounds like a bonus.
-- You have a Fighter with less than 12 Constitution? Did you read the rules? Did you understand them?
-- Intuitive I might concede, but it was certainly fixed and consistent. Have you ever heard of a mathematical curve? Doesn't seem like it.
-- This is covered by another poster, but you do know that MR is a VERY rare attribute possessed only by monsters, right?
-- Yeah, it's called a consequence. It was meant to fuck you up & over in order to make the monster feared.
Honestly, it seems like you're whining about the wrong things.
-- I agree that AD&D is probably not my first choice in a gaming system, but people tend to underestimate its strengths and overestimate its flaws.
Pick up a few Level 4-6 modules from Ebay, get your DM to start you as a FIRST LEVEL party, do a test run, then jump into the module. The game is the opposite of fan service.
SP3 has, in my brief experience with it:
*Prevented upgrading from Windows Media Player 10 to WMP 11 (Shut up -- Netflix streaming needs '11)
*Tricked a game I was trying to install into thinking there's *NO* DirectX installed.
I rolled back to SP2, and both of these issues were nonexistent.
I'm sitting here, eating an entire loaf of French bread, accompanied by a tub of spreadable butter with canola oil.
I'm going to have a few Keebler Fudge Shoppe Caramel Filled cookies afterward.
What's yours?
The reason that there's no literature about the moon pre-1950 is because They want everyone to forget that the Nazi Saucers _stole_ the moon in '40.
That's why turning off your lights was recommended during the Blitz of London -- there was no moonlight for the Luftwaffe to find their targets.
That's part of Yalta -- The Russians were allowed to seize Berlin, while the Americans were allowed to extract the moon from beneath Interlaken.
That's why the footage of the moon landing convinces believers and maddens skeptics -- because it WAS filmed on a soundstage...ON THE MOON.
"Greatest Generation"? I say "Great Big Liars."
Surely they mean the first TESTED A-bomb, as the engies knew that the first one they built would work...
The Associated Press standard is "nine to 11."