>From: "Martin L. Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>You mean I'm playing it incorrectly? Oh dear, where do I go for some >corrective instruction? Here I've been playing the game almost entirely in >my and my players' heads. (Heck, I never tell them the name of a monster >nor >show them the picture until their characters have a chance to learn about >that monster race. I don't want them using their player knowledge -- >they're >mostly GMs -- as character knowledge. So I just look at the pictures and >describe what they see. I can do this easily enough because I own the MM.) Exactly what I mean! The post was actually a follow on where I originally stated the importance of the MM, and how the SRD isn't a genuine substitute for it. Additionally (as per original post), when you play tag on DMing duties, the next DM can do the same thing, with some consistency, since you all (presumably) work from the same picture, and basic background. Of course, I'm not surprised to find a DM here, playing in a group of DMs, capable of playing 5 ft steps and threat ranges in their heads. Please allow me that I did say "most", and that didn't mean to infer that you, Martin, were in that group. Perhaps you'll also agree that D20 publishers should publish at a level for the majority of gamers, and that product development should take that into account. There may well be people around sufficiently experienced and advanced that they are capable of managing the new mechanics in the traditional way (eg. purely in your head), but surely product isn't published in a way that assumes that level? I'd hope not. In my opionion, published product that makes it difficult for newbies to rationlise what they've bought, with how the core rules state the game should be played, is a bad thing for the industry as a whole. This is at the heart of my I'm suddenly posting, after been a list "voyeur" for so long. I think that publishers (particularly of adventures), not being able to build fully on the MM, is a big and difficult issue. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
