Ah, I haven't seen a flame like that for many years. Most entertaining.
It's pretty funny. When I was first alerted to it, I thought "Nah, this has to be a troll". Upon further investigation I discovered that it isn't. Being an old gaming grognard I haven't been frequenting webforums, preferring the old fashioned style of mailing lists.
And as always, the best flames are always the coolest ;-)
The old B/E D&D certainly had issues. The joy we got from it was the act of roleplaying itself. As we continued to play, the more we found that particular system an impediment rather than a benefit. So we moved on; mainly to AD&D but like yourselves we also experimented with Traveller (ahh, the number of Traveller campaigns based on Blakes 7), whilst I was pushing RuneQuest with little success (setting was too weird for them - you can imagine what they thought of Bunnies & Burrows).
Surprisingly one little (almost forgotten) game that did have resonance with our group after a couple of years of (A)D&D was Swordbearer. I still have my original character sheet for that game...
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It's pretty funny. When I was first alerted to it, I thought "Nah, this has to be a troll". Upon further investigation I discovered that it isn't. Being an old gaming grognard I haven't been frequenting webforums, preferring the old fashioned style of mailing lists.
And as always, the best flames are always the coolest ;-)
The old B/E D&D certainly had issues. The joy we got from it was the act of roleplaying itself. As we continued to play, the more we found that particular system an impediment rather than a benefit. So we moved on; mainly to AD&D but like yourselves we also experimented with Traveller (ahh, the number of Traveller campaigns based on Blakes 7), whilst I was pushing RuneQuest with little success (setting was too weird for them - you can imagine what they thought of Bunnies & Burrows).
Surprisingly one little (almost forgotten) game that did have resonance with our group after a couple of years of (A)D&D was Swordbearer. I still have my original character sheet for that game...