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Question RE: Teaching D&D
May. 18th, 2010 06:36 pmI have to face facts; I just DO NOT LIKE the new Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition rules. I've tried and I've tried but I just can't get over the World-Of-Warcraft-esque gameplay. It's just too darned hard to work any ROLE playing in to the game for me. It's more like a linear string of encounters now than an open-world opportunity for story building. In previous editions it seemed much MUCH easier to build an encounter "on the fly" and let EVERYBODY (including the DM) be caught off guard by a Wandering Monster. As a DM the new 4th Edition rules feel constrictive, frustrating and, well... it's just not *fun* any more :(
Which brings me to GEEK CAMP.
Every summer I run a "Geek Camp" for my nieces, teaching them the finer points of Nerdosity with courses in Sci-Fi Appreciation, Comic Books, Monty Python and... Dungeons & Dragons.
For TWO SUMMERS now I have used the D&D 4th Edition Rules, and for two years I have been uncomfortable with how the games went. Since then I have tried to play 4th Edition about a dozen times with adults and have had the same semi-miserable time.
So I was thinking of maybe retiring the 4th Edition books and moving backwards to the original Red Box rules.
What do you think?
Which brings me to GEEK CAMP.
Every summer I run a "Geek Camp" for my nieces, teaching them the finer points of Nerdosity with courses in Sci-Fi Appreciation, Comic Books, Monty Python and... Dungeons & Dragons.
For TWO SUMMERS now I have used the D&D 4th Edition Rules, and for two years I have been uncomfortable with how the games went. Since then I have tried to play 4th Edition about a dozen times with adults and have had the same semi-miserable time.
So I was thinking of maybe retiring the 4th Edition books and moving backwards to the original Red Box rules.
What do you think?
