Re: Learning RPG

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

It won't surprise you to hear that I believe that RPG IV is the right one to
learn.  There is very little in existing RPG III programs that they won't
readily understand, and they can always do a CVTRPGSRC and view it in RPG IV
form anyway.  Besides, what is the point of teaching them a dead language?
Learning III now and switching to IV later just adds an extra hurdle.

There are the ATS and other courses, but I'd probably opt for a book myself -
Judy Jaeger's (new update about to come out I believe) one from Duke is a good
step-by-step tutorial.  Bob Cozzi has a new Intro one that I haven't looked at
in detail yet.

As to printing - well any RPG course is going to teach the O spec way as a
minimum, but I'd still steer them to print files.  Not hard to learn once you've
dealt with displays, even if the book doesn't help you.

Just my 2 cents worth - of course they are Canadian cents so that's only about
1.25 US cents!


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