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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4554108" data-attributes="member: 44184">I actually had the discussion in class with my students. "Why is a marker called a marker?" "Well, enough people agreed that that was what it should be called. If I started calling it a kerfluffle, and you started responding to, and even using the word kerfluffle, then it would be a kerfluffle, too."I wasn't aware that we were getting into a game of "That's not a banana. It's flibbidy floop!"My last point: I live in Indiana. Do I live in America?Over the last few hundred years, America has changed. Nearly every law has changed. The people have changed. The borders have changed. What makes this America compared with what it was in the beginning? The ideas. We still hold to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Most of us understand what it actually means to be American. Sure, there are people who would rather America had stopped at certain spots along the way, and there are certain people who hate or would have hated everything after the founding, but Indiana is in America. It's a much different America in terms of beliefs, boundaries and laws, but it's still America.This is the exact same idea with 4th edition. Hell, with games in general. D&D has transcended just a single ruleset. It has become an idea. 4th edition is D&D.To me, arguing against this point is like arguing that America isn't really America. It doesn't make a damn bit of sens and actually makes you seem foolish.</blockquote>

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