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Allow me to refine my previous statement to "D&D might as well not have an intended playstyle because everyone just rules zeros any intention away to play the way they want". People use D&D to make horror! https://hitpointpress.com/collections/heckna/products/heckna-campaign-book-1...

D&D has no intended playstyle and everyone plays it! It can do Doctor Who, Critical Role, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lord of the Rings, Studio Ghibli, and more!!! Why design your own game when D&D can already do everything???

This is both really hard to talk about and really important when it comes to TTRPGs. This must be why Powered by the Apocalypse generates such heated arguments. There's barely any mechanics but tons of procedure :P

If you strongly discourage combat via high lethality and low rewards, players will stick to the much more intresting exploration and role-playing D&D was meant for!

Which is why I advocate that new DMs undergo apprenticeships under veteran DM to learn how to run games.

So here we are.

So you're saying D&D should work to exclude players like that??

Let's talk procedure(s) of play! What procedures do you like to use??? Which ones do you hate???

This calls for a fork! https://www.enworld.org/threads/lets-talk-procedure-of-play.718089/

There goes my strategy of forming an investment group to force WOTC to make reforms on D&D. Guess you were all right to ignore my call on that one.

What's the difference between procedure of play and core mechanic??

The core mechanic isn't rolling dice; it's the communication between players.

Put that 4Eish in the bin with some character role playing rich adventures like this one!

This makes more sense then trying to fit Doctor Who into 5E :P