A timely read for me: as I think about the game play experience I want to generate at the table, I wrestle with the question of whether to hack the (many) existing games in my collection or to try to create something new. That tension is an intriguing question.
I was thinking along similar lines the other day when I read through some particularly curmudgeonly comments by some self-described grognards. There was a great deal of neophobia, and I was wondering if that was just easy, or in-a-rut thinking, nostalgia, or what. To be fair, it was a grognard group, so I suppose you can't blame them for embracing it.
Old Versus New
The worst hack I ever experienced was 100 years being added to the Forgotten Realms just so 4th edition could be integrated into it :-)
A timely read for me: as I think about the game play experience I want to generate at the table, I wrestle with the question of whether to hack the (many) existing games in my collection or to try to create something new. That tension is an intriguing question.
I was thinking along similar lines the other day when I read through some particularly curmudgeonly comments by some self-described grognards. There was a great deal of neophobia, and I was wondering if that was just easy, or in-a-rut thinking, nostalgia, or what. To be fair, it was a grognard group, so I suppose you can't blame them for embracing it.