On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 06:54 PM, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/24/2002 2:16:41 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > spiderman92 at attbi.com writes: > > >> >>> David >>> Started playing AD&D in 1979. >>> >> I was *born* after you started to play... Anyway, D&D sucks if you >> don't >> have a good DM, and it takes too long. >> > > 1978 here. Yeesh, I AM old. Any RPG system has the potential for > greatness > or lousiness and it is impossible to place blame solely on the > shoulders of > the GM or the players. It's a two-way street. As for taking too long > - > that's the whole point. Who'd want to play an RPG that only lasted > two hours > and was over and done with? > > Stacy 1982 here. The DM makes all the difference. I've played very good games and very bad ones.