07-01-2014, 12:51 PM
By all means, BE argumentative! 
That's the purpose of a "discussion board", isn't it?
Also, if you contradict me in a convincing way, I can always ban you! :twisted:
- On topic, though: We're on the same page here, it's just a bit of convoluted semantics, I think. Can we agree that AiF is not a resource of universal applicability, even for the more well-rounded fan of Mr Arneson's work? - Because my problem, as stated above, is just that the item in question is pretty expensive for a gaming product. I would not unconditionally recommend it to people, unless they are really, really already at the stage when they have already collected most of the other material out there.
Also, and I am aware that I might be wrong there, but wasn't AiF precisely Arneson's step away from Blackmoor, rather than an addition? Did he want to use the ruleset for what later became the DA modules? - Because my impression was that the ruleset etc. were not all too close to D&D/"The Fantasy Game". But then, I did not do any sort of close-reading.
That's the purpose of a "discussion board", isn't it? Also, if you contradict me in a convincing way, I can always ban you! :twisted:
- On topic, though: We're on the same page here, it's just a bit of convoluted semantics, I think. Can we agree that AiF is not a resource of universal applicability, even for the more well-rounded fan of Mr Arneson's work? - Because my problem, as stated above, is just that the item in question is pretty expensive for a gaming product. I would not unconditionally recommend it to people, unless they are really, really already at the stage when they have already collected most of the other material out there.
Also, and I am aware that I might be wrong there, but wasn't AiF precisely Arneson's step away from Blackmoor, rather than an addition? Did he want to use the ruleset for what later became the DA modules? - Because my impression was that the ruleset etc. were not all too close to D&D/"The Fantasy Game". But then, I did not do any sort of close-reading.