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I was thinking of a slightly more open set of choices; almost any species can be the core four plus some other options but Humans are...

True enough. Though D&D has never or rarely claimed to be a generic or universal RPG. It has attempted to cover a wide variety of...

Oh, it was; but I was in the room and I heard what was said. They might have been promoting one or two of the second round of core...

Yup, this is why conversations about immersion always flounder in the shallows of opinion.

I think you're misreading my post. I'm saying the rules exist to check "narrative contrivance". Transferring authority to the setting...

The rules do two things: 1 - they provide a framework in which the freeform elements can take place 2 - in one way or another they...

May or may not have been the plan but the proof lay in the pudding. I wish I could remember the exact words he used but at a GenCon...

Yes, but not just those.. I'm talking about the extent to which I have to shift my attention from the situation at hand to consulting a...

I'm probably being too broad there, let me dial that rhetoric back a little. Obviously we all have preferences and those will inevitably...

Those certainly are creative, and I get that this can be fun to some people. But this is also the sort of thing I want to avoid. This...

WotC's 4e marketing strategy quite intentionally took the tack of actively punting all previous D&D editions to the curb, leading many...

Even in RPGs I do like, I still prefer it when the rules get out of the way whenever it's reasonably possible than they can.

So what I'm hearing is that if you don't enjoy RPGs the same way you do, then you shouldn't be playing your RPG, or possibly any RPG?

Right you are, and the very best RPGs use the system to express the setting and its themes. But those games are not generic and usually...

Ya know, you might be on to something here. What if Humans, being the generic baseline, were restricted to also only being the generic...