There is 726 people registered on here and not many said hello. *sniff* 

Gaming FOREVER!

I deleted more than 700 accounts and already there are 17 new ones.  But it looks like the signup procedure is twarting them because they try to sign up but never confirm it and never get into the forum.  On other forums I have run, there were a few spammers who got in and posted, but here, so far, none have posted.

Like I said, we haven't hit a critical mass yet.  Send all your friends here and get them to sign up and talk NOLA gaming.

And you could always try our game.

Did you go to NOLA con?  I want to go for one day but this weekend just didn't work out.  A family obligation required that I go to Monster Jam and a schnauzer thing came up today in the early afternoon.

Also go check out meetups.com.  Someone just paid the fee to get a role playing area there.  Not sure how long they paid for.   Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or ;  You could post a message there looking for willing 2.0 victims.

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Playing AD&D has nothing to do with finding victims. Core rules AD&D is boring, I've already covered that. Seriously, the AD&D bashing needs to stop. It really doesn't matter what system you play as long as you have fun.

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Indeed, in the next couple of days, I'll write up a more indepth version for the game I'll run under the proper thread. Send me a message on the forum if you got questions.

Karloff

Karloff wrote on Feb 25^th, 2008 at 8:23pm:


An opinion, obviously, not a fact.

Karloff wrote on Feb 25^th, 2008 at 8:23pm:


Where?  I'd like to read it.

Karloff wrote on Feb 28^th, 2008 at 5:26pm:



Cool beans; thanks for the pointer.   Now I see where you're coming from, but from the thread, I can't tell if you're referencing 1st or 2nd edition AD&D.  My personal experience is with 1e, so I'll confine my remarks to that edition, because I have zero experience with 2e.

If you're referring to 1e, then I agree with you regarding the expansion books breaking the system.  I stick with the three core books: PHB, DMG and MM.  Okay, I'll include some FF and MMII in there, too.    Frankly, from UA on, I'm out.  I'm especially out when it comes to the Survival Guides, because I think that they inject skills-based rules into a non-skills based game.  OD&D and AD&D were never conceived as skills-based games, but as level-based where characters improve in their respective bailiwicks.  For me, the difference between OD&D/AD&D and almost every other game, including 3.x and 4.0, is that the former is centered around how good a player you are and the later are centered around how good a character you've got.  Without a skill to roll against, you the player have to come up with the plan to successfully overcome an obstacle.  In the skills-based games, all a player need do is roll a die to succeed.  It's been said in other places, but it's worth repeating here, "OD&D/AD&D challenges players, and most other games challenge characters." I'd rather be challenged as a player.

The 3 core AD&D books, IMO, are a great balance between rules and guidelines.  When the game creator himself, Gary, doesn't run his own games btb, that should tell us something.  Never let the rules get in the way of a fun game.  That's my biggest problem with how 3.x and the upcoming 4.0 attempt to codify everything into a hard and fast rule, where the DM is nothing but an interface between the books and the players.  What I mean is, the DM as final arbiter as to what is kosher or not in his game, has been eroded into near non-existence.

I think the core 1e books are great.  They give the DM enough of a framework to get the game going, but don't straitjacket the DM as an adjudicator.

Karloff, we may disagree in our opinions of the core books (for me that's just the 3), but it seems we agree that AD&D is still a great game. 

Also, it would be pretty much a guarantee that you couldn't drive me crazy as a DM, cause I love when players come up with creative solutions  ... especially if it involves something not found in any rulebook!