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<blockquote data-quote="Gorg" data-source="post: 8240151" data-attributes="member: 7029501"><p>BINGO!!!! I never got the popularity of gaming channels based on watching other people play video games, etc. Heck- it used to bore me to tears when my friends would hook up the nintendo and play. ZZZZZ. Got a buddy now trying to get me into D&D online (or whatever it's called) on Steam, but it just doesn't interest me. No cheesy video game graphics can compete with theater of the mind, lol. </p><p></p><p> Watching another group play D&D is, imo, worse than no D&D at all, lol. I want to play, too- dammit!!!!</p><p></p><p> I actually did play BECMI briefly. I had the Moldvay/Cook sets, but the other players and DM had the BECMI Basic sets. Worked just fine. That was the heart of our version of D&D. As we got our hands on various AD&D books, we just expanded our game to include the stuff we liked- same for 2E AD&D. I don't think we ever set out to play a specific edition strait- it was always the core game with our house rules and extras from the various books. They worked well enough together that whatever PHB you had access to to roll up a character was fine. We could adjust the niggles later. (like saves- which they often shuffled around between editions)</p><p></p><p> There was a simple beauty to the B/X BECMI rules- they just worked well, and only did what they needed to. The rest was up to US! That's essentially how we played forever after, no matter what edition.</p><p></p><p> I always ended up playing a fighter/magic user when I played an Elf- because that's what I was accustomed to thinking one was, lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gorg, post: 8240151, member: 7029501"] BINGO!!!! I never got the popularity of gaming channels based on watching other people play video games, etc. Heck- it used to bore me to tears when my friends would hook up the nintendo and play. ZZZZZ. Got a buddy now trying to get me into D&D online (or whatever it's called) on Steam, but it just doesn't interest me. No cheesy video game graphics can compete with theater of the mind, lol. Watching another group play D&D is, imo, worse than no D&D at all, lol. I want to play, too- dammit!!!! I actually did play BECMI briefly. I had the Moldvay/Cook sets, but the other players and DM had the BECMI Basic sets. Worked just fine. That was the heart of our version of D&D. As we got our hands on various AD&D books, we just expanded our game to include the stuff we liked- same for 2E AD&D. I don't think we ever set out to play a specific edition strait- it was always the core game with our house rules and extras from the various books. They worked well enough together that whatever PHB you had access to to roll up a character was fine. We could adjust the niggles later. (like saves- which they often shuffled around between editions) There was a simple beauty to the B/X BECMI rules- they just worked well, and only did what they needed to. The rest was up to US! That's essentially how we played forever after, no matter what edition. I always ended up playing a fighter/magic user when I played an Elf- because that's what I was accustomed to thinking one was, lol. [/QUOTE]
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