Basic wrote:You, along with your friends, will create a great fantasy story,
RC wrote:The DM will present their characters with situations, and they'll decide how to react to those situations.
1st AD&D wrote:Skilled players always make a point of knowing what they are doing, i.e. they have an objective. They co-operate
2nd AD&D wrote:Remember, the point of an adventure is not to win but to have fun while working toward a common goal.
3.5 wrote:Your character is an adventurer, part of a team that regularly delves into dungeons and battles monsters.
Why is it that every edition of the so-called game of D&D states that people are supposed to work together and cooperate as the adventuring party, yet there is always so much moaning and whining about balance BETWEEN THE PLAYERS?4E wrote:You create a character, team up with other characters (your friends), explore a world, and battle monsters. and then anything can happen!
Is it because 3.x brought most people into it? Sadly no, because people were bitching and whining about Fighter v Wizard long before the Generation Y crowd came along.
So why the hell can people not read the introductions of the books that make the game? Are people reading them and just trying to make up their own meaning and attribute it to the game? Is the game of "is says this and does that" more fun than the game of D&D to them?
HeroQuest (the original game made in 1989 not the stupid HeroWars RPG renamed) had characters similar to the Basic D&D "classes" and you didnt have the amount of competition in it that D&D does.
My stint into a few other games like Rifts and Vampire: The Masquerade, also didn't really see the competition as much and Vampire is basically a solo game where the players do things on their own and not as a group...or it was in both tabletop and LARP forms that I played.
Are other cooperative RPGs suffering form this problem of players trying to always compete rather than work together or is it endemic to D&D, and why?
EDIT: 3.5 quote (provided by erik) replacing the 3.0 quote I had so ALL editions actually state clearly that the game is a cooperative one in one way or other...so where does all the competition from the players comes from then?