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This has been my experience as well. When you have a set of rules that produce very different results (tactically speaking) from very similar mechanics-- that's impressive. D&D might be approaching an adjective that it has never gotten near before. Elegant.

First of all, 30 years of D&D experience might only serve to put up preconceptions that impair your ability to see how a new set of rules might operate quite well. This is evident in your use of "exploitable" as a negative, undesirable adjective. As well as your categorization of certain...

Why? Every game has a different metagame. What constitutes desirable or undesirable metagame information for the players to have varies by each game (and even by different gaming groups). Just because you didn't want them to know certain metagame information in completely different rules (ie...

Great post. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way about 3e/3.5e was how absolutely everything was described and how the rules were sort of a fantasy combat/situation simulator. I was bored to tears by it. I went back to playing classic D&D (Labrynth Lord, Basic Fantasy RPG, Rules Cyclopedia)...