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The last AD&D 2nd ed game I played in - which was around 30 years ago - I played a character that was, mechanically, a Skills & Powers...

Will someone please start a new thread so that we don't have to have this conversation for another 30 pages?

Every edition of Exalted Every edition of Legend of the Five Rings Every edition of Shadowrun Every edition of Earthdawn Every edition...

This is the core nonsense that supports your position. Of course I can speak to wider trends and opinions. The only reason you don't is...

Traveller - Megatraveller - Traveller the New Era MERP/Rolemaster 2 - RMSS HeroQuest - HeroQuest 2 (arguably)

Regarding the notion of being excluded or drowned out by bigger, noisier new things: This is supposed to be a thread about story, plot...

Well, nothing about 5e is creative. It's entirely a warm mush retread of previous design work filtered through a lens of 'you can do...

More creative sense?! The company that sells D&D, and makes their mint selling D&D, should have called it something else because it...

So are we all agreed then, editions shouldn't exclude people who liked the previous edition, so we're insisting Wizards goes back to 4e?

It took you 1.5 years of play to realise that 4e wasn't built around sim priorities? This is like trying sushi in the hope it will...

that a game system doesn't appeal to your or someone else's tastes still doesn't mean that it was at all designed to exclude you or...

Nothing you like has changed even slightly. Your books still exist. What's happened is that something new has come out. You're not...

Or you can, ya know, expand your preferences.

I don't think that making it like real life is possible. I think you can make it engaging by playing it out, and so you should do it for...

This is you looking for offence. I haven't said any of these things. When I said that 'I roll to attack' is a learned behaviour, I don't...