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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6005415" data-attributes="member: 996">Sure, D&amp;D has always been first and foremost a game.&nbsp; In the 90s, 2e went off on the setting-based kick and rapid publication schedule that was the trend in that decade, but it remained very much a 'roll playing' game (in the vernacular of that same decade).&nbsp; But, D&amp;D has also always been played in a lot of different ways.&nbsp; For a while, it was the only RPG option for most of us.&nbsp; Not that there weren't other RPGs, but we either didn't know about them (no internet back then!) or didn't have anyone else ready to play them.&nbsp; So D&amp;D got adapted to all kinds of improbable things, not just intense RP instead of hack &amp; slash, not just Monty Haul vs Killer DM, but different settings and even different genres.&nbsp; D&amp;D no longer needs to pull such broad/varied duty - and, in any case, there's d20 as a core system that can be used for that purpose if you want to leverage familiarity with D&amp;D...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6005415, member: 996"] Sure, D&D has always been first and foremost a game. In the 90s, 2e went off on the setting-based kick and rapid publication schedule that was the trend in that decade, but it remained very much a 'roll playing' game (in the vernacular of that same decade). But, D&D has also always been played in a lot of different ways. For a while, it was the only RPG option for most of us. Not that there weren't other RPGs, but we either didn't know about them (no internet back then!) or didn't have anyone else ready to play them. So D&D got adapted to all kinds of improbable things, not just intense RP instead of hack & slash, not just Monty Haul vs Killer DM, but different settings and even different genres. D&D no longer needs to pull such broad/varied duty - and, in any case, there's d20 as a core system that can be used for that purpose if you want to leverage familiarity with D&D... [/QUOTE]

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