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Where D&D Fails Video Games @ Kuro5hin

Posted by Dhruin @ Wednesday - April 14, 2004 - 03:50 -
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A site called Kuro5hin has an editorial entitled Where Dungeons & Dragons Fails Video Games, using Troika's ToEE as their prime example. The intro explains their position:
The problems experienced by TOEE users might be best described as systemic, rules based problems that were not developed by Troika, but by RPG rules publisher Wizards of the Coast (WotC), a bastardized version of what TSR used to be in its hey-day, prior to the removal of a very important figure from the company: The Father of RPG, Gary Gygax, first created Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of people who hung out with him regularly, and it was through this intensive and subjective process that the rules of all future video games were spawned. Hit points, stats, skills and all were first developed by Gary using Tolkien's work as a solid base for story and development, following the footsteps of military styled board games, yet significantly altering the process to suit a whole new genre of gameplay: the Pencil & Paper Role Playing Game (PPRPG).
I don't agree at all but I'd be interested to hear the opinion of D&D experts.
Source: RPG Codex
 
 
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