The Durham 3 Three role-players from Durham, NC and their podcast.

Sweet!

Guys, thanks so much, that was really enlightening. I’ve bought and read a lot of games over the past few months and it’s been really eye opening and has greatly informed my use of the older systems. For me, I have always had a terrible tendency to be a huge dick as a GM, especially where verbal confrontations with NPCs arise. Maybe it’s my profession, but I am almost incapable of letting their arguments go or advancing the game in ways I even intended when I wrote the NPC in the first place. So when I read DitV and, more recently, Burning Wheel’s Duel of Wits, I knew I had stumbled on something I really needed. I think too that now that I have a real job, or at least a one that makes real use of my time and energy, it’s refreshing to see systems that take up less use of your creativity up front and more of it in the moment, as well as more of the player’s creativity. There’s no need to mince words about it, that is a more “mature” manner of gaming. I bet that to the extent that you revisit traditional games in the future, you’ll come at them with a whole huge bag of new tricks that will make those games suck a whole let less. I’d love to hear your impressions of such a session and what new tools you couldn’t help but bring along with you into an old school game.

Thanks again for taking up my request.

Brad.