4E Designer playing OD&D

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#1

traversetravis

May 04, 2008 14:56:36
Hi, I wanted to give a heads up to a thread where Mike Mearls (one of the designers of Fourth Edition) describes an OD&D adventure he's running with two other WotC employees as players.

One highlight is a later post where he compares OD&D to 4E:
Mearls wrote:
#2

genghisuber

May 04, 2008 21:18:00
That's an excellent analogy he sets up. I remember playing OD&D and the DM rarely prepared anything. We just showed up and played and it was awesome. You can't do that in current versions of the game. There's too much prepwork involved, although the games themselves are of a level of detail that is difficult to replicate with OD&D.

Awesome post!