OD&D Grognards discover M&M
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OD&D Grognards discover M&M
There has been some positive feedback, so I thought some here might enjoy reading this thread:
Original D&D Discussion
Original D&D Discussion
Greyharp- Posts : 4
Join date : 2008-07-01
Location : Tasmania, Australia
Re: OD&D Grognards discover M&M
Oops! The forum requires you to register and login. You can't just jump to their M&M comments.
seneschal- Posts : 17
Join date : 2008-06-30
Re: OD&D Grognards discover M&M
Ahh sorry about that, it wasn't the case when I joined up there. Here are some of the comments:
Has anyone ever played Mazes & Minotaurs? (From the website) It's "...what the first fantasy roleplaying game could have been if its authors had taken their inspiration from Jason & the Argonauts (yes, the 1963 movie with all the cool Ray Harryhausen monsters) and Homer’s Odyssey rather than from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings or Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts & Three Lions. In other words, Mazes & Minotaurs is :
- a nostalgic pastiche of early fantasy roleplaying games
- a tongue-in-cheek tribute to old-school gaming
- a complete and fully playable roleplaying game !"
I haven't played it, but found it enteraining to browse through.
Revised kicks ass. I give this one a big thumbs up.
A lot of good ideas here for stuff you can port into OD&D, and more generally for ways you can port stuff from 3.14159 into OD&D if youìre so inclined. I think it's the best designed game I've read in the last year, probably.
What really impressed me about M&M was that it manages to capture the old school flavor while also being one of the tighest mechanical designs I've seen in ages. And the monster design subsystem is a lot of fun!
Greyharp- Posts : 4
Join date : 2008-07-01
Location : Tasmania, Australia
Re: OD&D Grognards discover M&M
Yep. I never "got" D&D. The mechanics eluded me although I had played other RPGs such as Classic Traveller and Champions. But a couple read-throughs of M&M and I was able to run a scenario for my kids.
seneschal- Posts : 17
Join date : 2008-06-30
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