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Inquiry: How do fans of AD&D (aka 1E) feel about the Unearthed Arcana supplement?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8434131" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Note: The "smarter" thing would have been to realize that a deisgn that gives one player significant power if they take role playing restrictions that nearly guarantee PvP action leading to PC death or unplayability in a typical party (one that has spellcasters) is a highly questionable balance choice in a nominally cooperative game. </p><p></p><p>We set up the scenario I described as a metagame conceit partially to ignore the restriction. The rest of the restriction was payed for not by the barbarian, but by the rest of the party. The spellcasters had to continuously take a back seat whenever they were in line of sight of the barbarian, severely limiting their ability to take spotlight. We basically gave the player an overpowered character <em>the rest of us</em> had to pay for. And the stupid conversations we had to "convince" the barbarian that "No, nobody in the party cast a fireball, we guess the bad guys cast that <em>on themsleves</em> for no good reason" were just inane time-wasters. It got old quickly.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately "spotlight sharing" wasn't a concept we had yet - we just knew it was a pain in the butt for our characters to contribute much of the time without risking death.</p><p></p><p>Doing things differently, by saying, "Well, that's a dumb design, let's not do that," would have ended up with more entertaining play for most of the other players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8434131, member: 177"] Note: The "smarter" thing would have been to realize that a deisgn that gives one player significant power if they take role playing restrictions that nearly guarantee PvP action leading to PC death or unplayability in a typical party (one that has spellcasters) is a highly questionable balance choice in a nominally cooperative game. We set up the scenario I described as a metagame conceit partially to ignore the restriction. The rest of the restriction was payed for not by the barbarian, but by the rest of the party. The spellcasters had to continuously take a back seat whenever they were in line of sight of the barbarian, severely limiting their ability to take spotlight. We basically gave the player an overpowered character [I]the rest of us[/I] had to pay for. And the stupid conversations we had to "convince" the barbarian that "No, nobody in the party cast a fireball, we guess the bad guys cast that [I]on themsleves[/I] for no good reason" were just inane time-wasters. It got old quickly. Unfortunately "spotlight sharing" wasn't a concept we had yet - we just knew it was a pain in the butt for our characters to contribute much of the time without risking death. Doing things differently, by saying, "Well, that's a dumb design, let's not do that," would have ended up with more entertaining play for most of the other players. [/QUOTE]
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