The Hobgoblin Holocaust

Fagistan  Mar 11 08

Erik Sofge takes down Gary Gygax before the old ogre's body is even cold!Gary Gygax still deserves, I think, a tremendous amount of credit for making roleplaying games possible in the first place. But that doesn't mean that the actual game he created is really very good. As a quick glance at the history of the game on Wikipedia will tell you, there are so many versions of the game each with their own distinctive set of arcane, often mutually unintelligible, rules that's it's really not even possible to talk about D&D as a cohesive gaming systems. So that's one problem. It has none of the universality of Steve Jackson's GURPS or the simplicity of the White Wolf games. Full story...

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