01-19-2012, 01:49 PM
Heh, I noticed that too but wasn't going to say anything. Business as usuall, TSR style.
I find the realease of AD&D interesting on several levels. For one, it kinda torpedoes OSRIC (not something I'm likely to shed any tears over).
But it also brings up a question of why? With 5e in the works, I think its a deliberate attempt to show young and curious gamers how "bad" the "old games" were. Wotc may be banking on the prediction that Gygaxs awful and decidedly unfamiliar prose coupled with the complexity and arbitraryness of AD&D, will allow them to convince gamers how much fantastically better 5e will be, and how they should pay no mind to that OSR stuff. At the same time, they can make AD&D part of the 5e conversation and cherry pick whatever they like all while seemingly releasing the product under altruistic intetions to benefit a charity of interest to gamers.
:roll:
I find the realease of AD&D interesting on several levels. For one, it kinda torpedoes OSRIC (not something I'm likely to shed any tears over).
But it also brings up a question of why? With 5e in the works, I think its a deliberate attempt to show young and curious gamers how "bad" the "old games" were. Wotc may be banking on the prediction that Gygaxs awful and decidedly unfamiliar prose coupled with the complexity and arbitraryness of AD&D, will allow them to convince gamers how much fantastically better 5e will be, and how they should pay no mind to that OSR stuff. At the same time, they can make AD&D part of the 5e conversation and cherry pick whatever they like all while seemingly releasing the product under altruistic intetions to benefit a charity of interest to gamers.
:roll: