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<blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 9206938" data-attributes="member: 15582"><p>That never stopped our AD&D groups. We just all played elves and joked about how helpless humans were as a species. Sadly B/X was seen as a kiddie game. It's a real surprise to see that become the OSR darling. </p><p></p><p>One of the better ways to keep power creep down is to not do a levelling game at all. Harder to creep up if you don't level up in the first place. </p><p></p><p>The biggest gift Tolkien gave D&D is the trope of the vanilla fantasy map. Dwarves go in some mountains, elves go in some forests, orcs hang out in some badlands, and short folks are in some pseudo-farmland. Then everyone at the table nods and it's off to the races. </p><p></p><p>You don't that same level of total buy in for sci-fi games. A setting might say the dwarves live off of mushrooms and mountain goats, but the players suddenly don't question what sort of mushrooms or that a Dwarven city would need a whole mountain range of penned in goats to survive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Von Ether, post: 9206938, member: 15582"] That never stopped our AD&D groups. We just all played elves and joked about how helpless humans were as a species. Sadly B/X was seen as a kiddie game. It's a real surprise to see that become the OSR darling. One of the better ways to keep power creep down is to not do a levelling game at all. Harder to creep up if you don't level up in the first place. The biggest gift Tolkien gave D&D is the trope of the vanilla fantasy map. Dwarves go in some mountains, elves go in some forests, orcs hang out in some badlands, and short folks are in some pseudo-farmland. Then everyone at the table nods and it's off to the races. You don't that same level of total buy in for sci-fi games. A setting might say the dwarves live off of mushrooms and mountain goats, but the players suddenly don't question what sort of mushrooms or that a Dwarven city would need a whole mountain range of penned in goats to survive. [/QUOTE]
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