Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild

From: dsaville@unm.edu (David G. Saville)

Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <Zc3dE2i.ricmal@delphi.com>, Rich  <ricmal@delphi.com> wrote:
>written as a gladitorial arena game.  AG was designed as a
>roleplaying game where the arena stuff is just a sub-plot.
>That's why DM is DUELMASTERS, and AG is ADVENTURERS Guild (caps
>

I am not commenting on the DM/AG comparisons due to very little
experience with DM.  AG is much more a combat game than a roleplaying
game.  In fact, there are many more power gamers in AG than
roleplayers.  Long ago, when the DM folks were still here, we went
back and forth on the subject of newsletters.  DM's newsletter
allows for longer stories more consistantly than AG's.  The news
letter in AG is the main oportunity for roleplaying so its
lack of long stories limits roleplaying.  At its inception, AG
was stricly a gladitorial game and adventuring came along a couple
years later as the game and player interest grew.  However, if
player interest supports it, I will bet AG will expand to allow
more roleplaying.  AG is a very dynamic game that is constantly
expanding (on a side note, some would argue this is an item
of contention for consistency reasons).  From the sounds of
things, DM has very little to no development.  I do not blame
RSI for this....they have quite a large player base and until
attrition starts to hurt the bottom line they have no incentive
to improve the game.  I guess the point I am trying to make
is dont use two words in titles to pigeon hole games.  AG is
much more gladitorial than roleplaying.  Adventures in AG are
basically a series of 5 team fights...players vs monsters.

Dave
(Paz, etc, etc, etc)

References

Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
dconklin@netcom.com (Douglas D. Conklin)
Sun, 21 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
dag@chem.ucla.edu (Great Cthulhu)
Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
baw@grebble.oau.org (Brett Wampner)
Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
Rich <ricmal@delphi.com>
Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
dconklin@netcom.com (Douglas D. Conklin)
Sun, 21 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
dag@chem.ucla.edu (Great Cthulhu)
Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
baw@grebble.oau.org (Brett Wampner)
Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Duelmasters VS Adventurer's Guild
Rich <ricmal@delphi.com>
Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000