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lowkey13
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That's not really what I was getting out. Your point is like saying that there are similarities between Star Trek and Star Wars and Babylon 5 and all sorts of other science fiction, so there's no point in trying to tease out what makes, say. Star Trek, Star Trek. Which is fine.
And yet there is a difference. I am indifferent to the ways in which other games are similar to or ape D&D; I am curious about what parts of D&D are so "core" that to change them would make it "no longer D&D."
Think about going to someone's house and they say they you are going to play some D&D, but with some homebrew. What changes could they make that would make you go, "Hey, dude, too far. Great game, not D&D."
4e doesn't have saving throws, for example.
4e doesn't have Saving Throws...? Maybe I was playing a different game.
Ooooh.... alignment. Now that's one.