Brian Gleichman posts regarding application of the threefold:
At one time I would have said the latter, now I'm ready
to say the former and oppose in general any similar model.
Now mind, that's stated as a blanket and it isn't. In
your specific case, I'm not worried about you using the
model. Nor am I opposed to such lightweight use as Russell
details in a post here.
Maybe it's just me, but with that many exceptions, it seems to me
you're hardly objecting to the model at all, only to misapplication of
it. Perhaps what I think of as the model is much less than what you
think of as the model.
However I'm rather certain now that it would have been
best that Mary never attempted to use it- her entire
series of posts on D&D recently has shown that she has
seriously overthought and overapplied the model and
it's become self-defeating for her.
I didn't have the impression that her ****ft to AD&D3 was primarily a
result of the threefold.
I do think the threefold was an input; she did mention early on
thinking that it helped to know that her then current dissatisfaction
with her gaming experience was not necessarily due to a lack of story,
but instead due to a lack of game, and I think she was correct with
respect the the campaigns she ran for her husband, if not necessarily
for the campaigns her husband ran for her.
My impression, however, is that her ****ft to AD&D3 is more a result of
insufficient time available for gamesmaster preparation, forcing her
to use published D20 modules. Clarification from Mary would be useful
here.
Warren J. Dew
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