Playing D&D With Porn Stars: I Just Now Realized I've Always Thought This Without Articulating It...

Saturday, July 10, 2010

I Just Now Realized I've Always Thought This Without Articulating It...

Old D&D = DC

New D&D = Marvel

25 comments:

Marc said...: Wow... Somehow, and weird enough, I already knew it :o; July 10, 2010 at 11:41 AM
biopunk said...: I'd go with that.; July 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Jonothan said...: What does that mean?; July 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous said...: This.... this is going to take some time to absorb...

*goes and sits in the corner*; July 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Snarls-at-Fleas said...: Hm. You are right. I've always liked Marvel and New D&D more.; July 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM
James Maliszewski said...: That's actually a rather good analogy.; July 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Jeff Rients said...: D&D Basic/Expert = Superfriends; July 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM
mordicai said...: When you say DC I have to wonder what era we're talking here-- oh god, I'm over analyzing it-- but the High Fantasy of New DnD seems more Silver Age-- "Oh we just popped in to the Earth-2, I mean the Feywild..."-- whereas Old DnD's gritiness seems more in line with what I expect from Marvel.

Regardless, my campaign is Kirby.; July 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Anonymous said...: I prefer Old D&D and Marvel. I must be confused.; July 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Zak Sabbath said...: @marjasall
I expected about 300 comment saying roughly that; July 10, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Adam said...: DC is a great big mess of ideas and tones and genres strung together by the thinnest threads of frayed continuity. It has much more in common with a sandbox full of toys than a world, so in that sense it reminds me of Zak's D&D.

Marvel? It's more accessible, and consequently often much more boring.; July 10, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Chris Lowrance said...: Old D&D is killing off all it's non-white legacy characters, too?

I kid. I get what you mean here.; July 10, 2010 at 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm gonna have to go with:

Old D&D = pre-CCA DC

AD&D 2nd Edition = CCA Marvel

New D&D = post-CCA Marvel

Looking at it this way, I suddenly have a framework for understanding the insidious appeal D&D 4e has for me.

Thanks, Zak.

Thak.; July 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Delta said...: #2 of 300. No reason we can't be civil.; July 10, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Bob Reed said...: Original D&D = EC; July 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Tom said...: Wait...what's Image equivalent to? Storyteller? 3E? 4E?

Oooh and Dark Horse! Who's Dark Horse?; July 11, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Zak Sabbath said...: @Tom
Image is obviously some kind of fantasy heartbreaker.

Dark Horse is a grab bag of vastly varying levels of quality kept afloat by licensed properties, so: Palladium? Mayfair? Chaosium?; July 11, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Dungeon Beef said...: OD&D = Jack Kirby and Joe Simon

AD&D = Barry Windsor-Smith run on Conan

AD&D 2nd ed. = Valiant Comics

3.x D&D = Image Comics

4e D&D = Brand New Day Spidey; July 11, 2010 at 12:35 AM
Adamantyr said...: OD&D = Archie Comics

I haven't kept up on comics for awhile... the only stuff I collect is Knights of the Dinner Table and Groo the Wanderer.

So where does Rolemaster fall into it?; July 11, 2010 at 1:06 AM
thekelvingreen said...: I would have said that DC is equivalent to all those grunky arcane miniature and naval wargames which bequeathed their mechanics to D&D, early D&D is Marvel (they swiped half the art from Doctor Strange after all), and D&D3 is Image, and D&D4 is Tokyopop.; July 11, 2010 at 2:50 AM
Zzarchov said...: OD&D I can see being DC , new D&D (being 1e and beyond) could be Marvel.

DC is ridiculous in their what we would call "unbalanced" while 1e and 2e trying to keep things in the same scale.

A 0e D&D party could be the superfriends with batman and superman togethor..

College Humour had a rather apt problem with that:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1884973

Part 2:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1906726; July 11, 2010 at 6:03 AM
Tom said...: Now for the really hard part.
Given that your home game is part 1E (DC)/ and part 3.5E (Marvel), what comic/publisher best expresses it?

Or would it be the...interesting Marvel/DC crossover battle comics from a while back?; July 11, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Delta said...: @kelvingreen: That's a good point, that the OD&D LBBs literally stole Marvel art for their graphic sensibility.; July 11, 2010 at 7:48 PM
SirAllen said...: #3. Old D&D and Marvel. 4-eva; July 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Capheind said...: I would go more

OD&D = Batman
4E = Xmen

but maybe that's just my opinion. My OD&D characters are just people with training, equipment, and some support staff.

4E is all about powers and abilities and larger than life epic heroes with elaborate pre-game story lines.; July 22, 2010 at 8:56 AM

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