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I believe they did say modern writing, although I'll give you that the hero is often a straight white person too.

It's just not the same Ravenloft. None of the TSR settings that have been revised since Tasha's are the same setting as they were, even in significant, broad strokes kinds of ways. D&D is just different now. They are chasing a different group of consumers. The old stuff is still available, or...

Well, just know that I'm here for you.

The delusional thing wasn't directed at me, but I suppose I could call out more people.

So you have to point out every example or none of them? I thought we were on a spectrum here. And having something be context-sensitive isn't a general bad, just not what everyone wants.

I'm with you. I prefer to abstract away very little.

Nowadays kids learn about this stuff in elementary school. Dark Sun's still 18+ though, somehow...

In the market for mature content any more. They have changed.

That's a big part of it, but I also feel it outs mechanics as a higher priority than fiction, with the suggestion that you adjust the fiction to makes the mechanics work. I also didn't like any of the lore changes, really.

Boring is, of course, relative. We're all welcome to ignore or abstract away what ever parts of play we don't find fun.

What do you consider "effectively said"? Delusional was the actual word used. I know I've never used those words to describe the play of others (as far as I remember), just that I feel some ways about some games and feel other ways about other games.

Agreed. I don't see simplicity as a virtue to always be strives for in and of itself. My preference is to have the rules cover as much as is practical to use at the table or in prep. Obviously, that line varies for different players, but I'm a simulationist and can handle a lot of rules.

A bit of an unfair exaggeration of most task resolution mechanics. I mean, an action in modern D&D (even 4e I believe) is six times that long, and older version use 1 minute rounds. How long does making an attack take in your preferred game, for example? On the other hand, I believe Riddle of...

And you wonder why I don't consider 4e all that close to the many other versions of D&D?

Now you are calling people who disagree with you delusional. This is getting increasingly insulting.

You do realize this is, by name, your personal way to play 4e?

Still too narrative-leaming for me, but fair enough.

The GM decided to make the player's hope true in light of the player's successful roll. Sorry I missed that part in this post; I got it the last time I posted about this.

Well, that is what I see gaming as insofar as the style I prefer, so I suppose that makes sense. Your descriptions of play have never really sounded enjoyable to me.

Is @hawkeyefan one of the posters irritating you with their wrong ideas about Narrativist play? If not, I'm not talking about them. And no, personally I don't see 4e as all that close to other versions of D&D, particularly the way you have presented yourself as playing it.