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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2501111" data-attributes="member: 17296">Don't worry, that's pretty common. Usually it's because I haven't managed to actually express what I'm talking about sufficiently... either that or I just THINK that because I'm arrogant. Either way it must be true!Of course, it does make me wonder a little bit about what points exactly you're disagreeing with. It all seemed very simple and quite intuitive to me, but then I wrote it, didn't I?Some of my basic points:D&D = A game genre, a type or system or feel. It's swords and sorcery, it's Dungeons and Dragons, it's become a generic term to refer to a broad catagory of game systems3.X = Refers to the 3.0 and 3.5 (and any future suppliments) that WoTC invented when they bought the TSR logo and revitalized the game. I don't really know ANYone who's played both systems who thinks that they're the same game. They have wizards and rogues and fighters and clerics, but the entire system has been completely reworked. If someone says "I'm playing D&D tonight" you might assume that they're playing 3.X. That would be a common assumption because that's currently the most common form of the game played. But you wouldn't be shocked to discover that they were playing DarkSun or Hackmaster or EarthDawn, or even second edition. You might be surprised but not shocked. And once it was clarified which system they were playing, you wouldn't (I don't think) refute that they're not playing D&D if indeed they're not playing 3.XAnd so.D&D can definitely be played low magic. There are some systems that are lower magic by default than 3.X3.X was/is written with the base assumption that characters will have a certain power level in states and in character wealth, and that character wealth will include at least the base magic items in the core books. Varying from that will cause additional complications.Additional point: I stated that 3.X does not take well to house-rules, additions and subtractions. Once exception to that is, of course, the way that they've built in to make new rules, the "feat" system. The system is designed to be able to incorporate a limitless number of feats, all of which will add to or alter the base rules in some way.However the game isn't designed to adapt well to other house rules. This is in large part because it's such a lawful game system. It's filled with many rules which all interact with each other. If you attempt to make a house-rule you're very likely to stumble across several unintended consequences. If you're either very lucky or very good you won't. You might know ALL the rules extremely well, and be able to make and change rules completely, with each change encompassing all the other rules that it will affect, and noting how this change will or will not change those rules. However if you're doing so you're also validating my statement that it's not really designed to be easily changed. You have to go through a LOT to manage that. Several paid writers fail to make all the considerations needed. As is generally pointed out and/or exploited by the rest of the gaming community!That's what I was trying to say in a slightly different form.</blockquote>

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