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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: edition wars
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:49:39 +0200
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On 10/22/2024 5:27 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> 
> But I still hold that most of the complaints about 2E have less to do
> with the system itself than with the meta surrounding it: with Gygax's
> departure, with TSR's financial shenanigans, with the changing culture
> around tabletop RPGs, etc.
> 

I think the main issue was that a lot of stuff became much more 
sophisticated in writing and production, but that most of the stuff also 
felt incredibly generic. And of course it doesn't help that the whole 
idea of roleplaying went away from previous habits into the more 
railroady aspects the Hickmans did so successfully. Roleplaying became 
playing a role in a prewritten story, a development that still is 
happening, to the point that it's not even really possible to play a 
more freeform game of 5e in my opinion.

(I also think that it's a valid expression of roleplaying as an artform, 
it's just not what DND started with and did best)