Comments on: Great article on essential RPGs

By: Peter S.

Peter S. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:51:56 +0000

Not bad, I really enjoyed reading it, yet it strikes me as hastily written. A better job could have been done at pointing out the threads between these different games (such as Vancian magic, which is actually part of the first Final Fantasy game and the old Wizardry titles but isn’t mentioned in either article. To give a brief and easily spotted example.)

Given that the point of the article is to show how all of these things tie together, dude needs more string.

By: heartless_

heartless_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:38:13 +0000

Good find.

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By: Yukon Sam

Yukon Sam — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:07 +0000

The author of that article must have had a seriously mean DM for his D&D campaign. Mine always fudged the rolls like crazy or started characters at level 5 or so, to get around the fragility issue. And we roleplayed! The improv was as much fun as the game.

But yeah, if you’re digging at the roots of the family tree, you’re going to find a lot more than D&D down there; and while WoW may be in the highest branches at the moment, there’s plenty more fruit on the tree.

There was a computer version of Traveller way back in the olden days… I think I’ve still got in a box somewhere on 5 1/4″ floppies. I wish someone would option that property for an MMORPG.

By: Luke Mc

Luke Mc — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:31:17 +0000

Hmm Yea their are some more pen and paper rpgs I would toss into the list.

At least White Wolf Storyteller but if we look also at the Sci-Fi world. Traveller.

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