So Much Bad Design...

[squeen]

@DangerousPuhson : GFY.

 

[The1True]

Do you happen to own a particular red hat?

@DangerousPuhson : GFY.

Dudes. No.

Let's keep the politics to oblique sniping. I'd prefer to avoid the return of the iron-shod fist of authority.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

But it's simple really. I just want to be free to call it as I see it. Others may or may not agree (which is fine and healthy), but if you are going to mock me, or try to silence me---I'll tell you to piss off.

It's not an attack if my perceptions do not align with your tastes. Feel free to dismiss them. I won't go after you personally...but it's also not my problem if you take it personally.

I didn't mock him. I didn't try to silence him. I "called it as I saw it". Squeen told me to piss off. It's done.

It's not an attack if my perceptions don't align with his tastes. He's free to dismiss them. I won't go after him personally....but it's also not my problem if he takes it personally.

 

[squeen]

I'm not offended. I hope DP keeps posting.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Cheers

 

[grodog]

Why has nobody written a basic "How to Play D&D" manual yet? Why do we collectively sit on our hands while we wait for someone like Bryce to finally scrape together his book/Bible of adventure design? Has nobody else taken a proper stab at it? [snip]

Honestly, the most in-depth "proper example" I've seen was the bit in the AD&D DMG where the party gets pwned by a ghoul, and that's hardly a detailed walkthrough. Has there really been no advancement on this front since?

I taught an after-school program in the early/mid 80s for kids, to teach them how to play D&D, and semi-recently ran across my notes and handouts from that. I’ll pull them out again to see if they hold up or not.

I also combined two of TSR’s “what is D&D?” handouts from the early 80s into a single 11x17 handout usable as an intro for newbies (I think I did this when teaching Ethan’s friends how to play in middle school, perhaps). I liked that, will dig those up too.

The examples of play over the years are actually pretty instructive, and I’m sure designing one to include mapping and resource usage/allocation would go a long way toward helping newcomers to the older/OSR editions help to understand and appreciate the value of such activities at the table.

Allan.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Dude, I'd love to see that stuff!

 

[grodog]

I’m really not too sure they’ll have a lot useful in them, but I’ll dig in and see.

Allan.

 

[The1True]

I've gotta say; I've been getting involved in after school programs at my kids school, and I'd be pretty interested to see what you've got as well...