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But not of equal measure. There is more from medieval Europe than all others combined (and by several multiples.) That DnD is based on Medieval Europe is clearly specified in the 2E DMG. No interpretation needed. (Seriously, I find this discussion quite silly. Having a scimitar in the game...

I would say this is true for any campaign that has conveniently cast aside issues of timekeeping, resource management, and wandering monster encounters. Just say the days have passed and the cleric healed everybody up. With the large beginning HP in 4E, a 1st level cleric would otherwise need...

Storywise, surges have robbed the game of any connection to reality. That mechanic is for strategy-games, not roleplaying. How can a player relate to simply willing oneself to gain health? Since when can a person without regenerative powers heal oneself? In 4E, everyone can regenerate--an...

Exactly what I've been trying to say, especially regarding new players. 4E Powers (and Spells especially) are written in combat encounter terms only and therefore appear useful only in that capacity. It takes a seasoned gamer, who has experience playing editions that expressed these...

I agree that 4E feels this way. The emphasis on feats and powers feels that character growth is gameplayed via power growth. I liken 4E to Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Morrowind in that regard. Some will argue the opposite, that the many choices of feats and powers is actually an advancement...

Well, they had skills. They were called non-weapons proficiencies. They had backgrounds. Under "non-professional skills," labeled "secondary skills" which specified what PCs did before adventuring (but the benefits were more general in nature)--in the 1E DMG. They had rituals. They were...

Hmmm.... maybe Gygax was right about keeping the rules light. I never think of 1E/BECMI characters as being the same and I kept playing Fighters over and over and over again. But when I'm making a 4E character on the website, I feel like I'm just plugging in info on a generic character--no...

Not anymore. If WOTC keeps going forward in rules changes, it will keep losing customers. If WOTC goes backwards, it will lose the newer customers. Sadly, WOTC needs both at the same time. Dunno. Keep two DnD system going. One for the oldies, one for the newbies. (And I don't mean just...

Great question! 1. More generic SETTINGS! Vor Rukoth and Hammerfast were fun. I want plenty more! 2. A book of licensed CHARACTERS! Yep, bring in some officially licensed fantasy characters from popular novels and give'em the DnD treatment. Make DnD THE game system for every fantasy...

It has always done a fine job for me. If I want that experience with 4E, I'm gonna need some older books. Which is fine for me. I just wonder if the next generation is going to experience it that way, or just see DnD as a tabletop strategy game...

Can't be inaccurate. It is precisely how I feel about the issue. And nowhere did I say my game "only consists" of anything at all. Please don't attribute things to me that I don't say.

Where did I say otherwise?

I can't possibly be "mistaken." It's just my point of view on what makes a roleplaying game the best it can be. I don't understand why my expression of an opinion somehow gets construed that I'm telling others how they must play as well...:erm:

I forgot to add with the Gygax quote... Remember how BECMI characters each spoke in their "alignment" language? I really hated that. We never ever played it, and I never saw it come up in any of the published adventures (and I've played most of them). Dumbest thing ever.

Fine, but they will find they have no significance to speak of regarding the creation of DnD. Japan and Saladin did not have "knights." Knights are European, particularly (but not limited to) French and English. Where are ANY druids? Europe. Where are any rangers? LOTR. What's LOTR...

True, there are bits here and there. But when looking at the whole, the design is European.

Home-ruling isn't at issue here. We've been talking about the content of the published books. Home-ruling is only an issue insofar as that it's a bad product if your players have to home-rule to make it work.

If you have nothing better to post than personal attacks, don't post at all.

Nah. That stuff needs to be there if the scene is critical to the story and the characters have to go through it. But a lot of adventuring--as I've known it--could be skipped over 4E-style and the players rushed to just the crucial encounters. To me, all the activity that is not crucial to...

Simply saying in passing that adventuring is important is not the same as actually making it important in the game's rules. The passage you quoted is like saying "yes, honey, talking is very important" and then skipping past it. Excuse me for using the word summarize to summarize what the...