Just for fun, take a look at page 100 of AD&D Players Handbook (1st ed) and check Vision spell. Does it remind you of something ?
Just for fun, take a look at page 100 of AD&D Players Handbook (1st ed) and check Vision spell.
Just for fun, take a look at page 100 of AD&D Players Handbook (1st ed) and check Vision spell.
Very familiar. I guess it proves that nothing is ever really new 🙂
So does that mean that DW is Gary’s Legacy?
So, for those of us who can’t do this, what’s there?
Hah, amazing!
For those of you without the book, the Vision spell is laid out basically exactly like a DW move. 2-6 and a bad thing happens. 7-9 and you pay for it. 10+ and you get what you want like a boss.
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Above all, it means that Mr. Gygax was just a few inches of a reeeaaal cooool system, and missed it 😀
Magi max man, Gygax was like Newton that needed to develop calculus just in order to work out his ideas. Everything is easier with 35 years of hindsight. (no offence meant to Vincent Baker, or to anyone else climbing on the shoulders of the giants, of course)
Paride Papadia I was joking of course, this man transformed my life and opened mysterious and fantastic doors in my dull teen days, like Lovecraft, Poe, Vance and many others. A new door was opened recently by Adam & Sage, thank you guys for keeping us dreaming.
30 years later I still do.
Magi max apart the fact that I have to thank you for giving me the chance of citing Newton in an RPG post (achievement unlocked), I just wanted to point out that GG did not have a previous experience to draw on.
Just a tought, anyway: I read some rules and adventures written from GG. I am no historian, but my feeling is that he was very much a puzzle gamer more than a narrativist, so his cool would have been a different cool from DW cool.