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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6828905" data-attributes="member: 82779">I isolated that part because it's very important to remember that people do not see the identity of D&D the same way.Some people think it's not D&D without some kind of Vancian casting.  I hate Vancian casting and replace it with spell points every chance I get because that feels to me more like the way magic should work.  The people who have invested part of their personal opinion of what D&D is into Vancian casting might say that I was no longer playing D&D at that point, while I would disagree.Who is right?Both of us would be, because each of us holds the identity of D&D to different standards.Also, the very game itself encourages us to make our own worlds and alter the rules as we see fit for the sake of fun.  It does this in 5e and has done this in at least the two editions prior to 5e; I actually feel pretty safe in saying the game has done that in every edition, but I'm only going back to 3e because I no longer have me pre-3e D&D books for reference.  If the game itself tells us this is your world, make of it what you will, what grounds does anyone have for criticizing the "D&D-ness" of another's game world?Now one could certainly say "that's not very FR" (or whatever setting they want to choose to compare it to) because each of those settings are their own defined places that have been pretty well fleshed out over the years, but who cares?  Unless you're actually trying to run a game that's very true to the history and lore of FR (or insert setting here), that comparison is utterly meaningless.</blockquote>

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