I’ve been playing role-paying games for quite a few years. My best friend in boot-camp introduced me to Dungeons and Dragons back in 1979. (To be precise it was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.) I was hooked from the first game, and I still play to this day.

The game has changed a lot over the years, AD&D, gave way to 2^nd Edition AD&D, then 3^rd edition D&D, then that got patched by 3.5 D&D (What I currently play), that got superseded for some by 4^th edition D&D, setting of the nuclear war of edition wars, and soon we’ll see yet another iteration.

For sometime I have been pondering how the changes in the rules have change how we, or at least how I play the game. I’m not speaking of the mechanics, what dice you roll and how you determine success or failure in the game, but rather how the worlds and adventures are constructed and from that what the feel of the games become. Continue reading →