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Not really.

4e is the best DND version.

Hmm. I'm not sure the D&D combat resolution system can easily be made generic. The whole stop-motion, one attack per N seconds to...

?? It's evident in the maps in LotR, and in the narration of The Hobbit which expressly refers to the world of the story as being in the...

I have almost zero experience with Fate. I’ve thumbed through it a bit, but I’ve never played it. I’m not sure what it is but whenever I...

Well, 4e D&D did work through this pretty carefully (in Worlds & Monsters and Open Grave). It seemed like a coherent thought process!

I was responding to this post:

There are multiple examples of "universal" systems that have been mentioned in this thread, that depart from this model: Cortex+/Prime...

Well, given that the DMG has a fairly full (as in, about as much detail and info as the original Folio) presentation of Greyhawk as a...

If you want to play a game in which there are no Goliath PCs, or no Dwarven Wizards, then why not jus tplay it? I'm not sure why you...

lol no. I think you're seeing what you're wanting to see. Given their publication history, the increasingly diverse and young...

I could not be less interested in a D&D that emphasizes racism and sexism again

Okay. Doesn't really change my point at all.

Why should D&D limit itself to Tolkien's ideas and European folklore? Why should "good" elves be white, and "evil" elves be...

Honestly, give how barebones the 1E depiction is, even the box set, and that it is written by an obviously biased unreliable narrator as...