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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6241814" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>Thanks. The sense of wonder quip was partly tongue in cheek, given the controversial use of that phrase round these parts in the past, but the sentiment isn't really.</p><p></p><p>I came into D&D in the very early 80s as a fan of fantasy books, and I wanted D&D to reflect much of what I was reading in fantasy. I'm not sure at all if that was Gygax's intention when he wrote it, and in fact, I'm fairly certain that it was not; his baseline for D&D was through the medium of wargaming, and that was reflected in the way the game was structured, many of the basic assumptions with the game, and many, many of the details as well. Because the background was so different than mine, there was much about D&D that was strange and unlovely to me; that I never liked, and never really accepted.</p><p></p><p>It was probably inevitable that my lingering disenchantment with D&D itself as the medium to represent fantasy roleplaying would catch up to me again, after being shoved a bit to the back burner during the heady days of the early OGL and 3e.</p><p></p><p>I probably will never really be a regular ever again, but honestly, I just don't really like D&D itself all that much, and this site is too focused specifically on D&D (and it's various iterations, like Pathfinder, fer instance) to offer much to tempt someone who's tastes align otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 6241814, member: 2205"] Thanks. The sense of wonder quip was partly tongue in cheek, given the controversial use of that phrase round these parts in the past, but the sentiment isn't really. I came into D&D in the very early 80s as a fan of fantasy books, and I wanted D&D to reflect much of what I was reading in fantasy. I'm not sure at all if that was Gygax's intention when he wrote it, and in fact, I'm fairly certain that it was not; his baseline for D&D was through the medium of wargaming, and that was reflected in the way the game was structured, many of the basic assumptions with the game, and many, many of the details as well. Because the background was so different than mine, there was much about D&D that was strange and unlovely to me; that I never liked, and never really accepted. It was probably inevitable that my lingering disenchantment with D&D itself as the medium to represent fantasy roleplaying would catch up to me again, after being shoved a bit to the back burner during the heady days of the early OGL and 3e. I probably will never really be a regular ever again, but honestly, I just don't really like D&D itself all that much, and this site is too focused specifically on D&D (and it's various iterations, like Pathfinder, fer instance) to offer much to tempt someone who's tastes align otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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