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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1303402" data-attributes="member: 177">I'll work with a culinary analogy...You can spend your whole life eating a diet of Tex-Mex food, and be perfectly happy and healthy.  You will, however, never know the joys of Italian foods, or Chinese dishes.  In addition, you won't be in a terribly good position to be a food critic, and your abilities as a chef will be somewhat limited by the lack of experience.Psion points out that some folks will say that only liking D&D, "makes you a small minded simpleton".  It doesn't, but it does tend to leave you with a certain lack of perspective.  It is much more difficult to know the strengths and weaknesses of the rules and gaming style you normally use if you don't have anything different to which you can compare them.  I think that playing other games on occasion is a great thing for a DM to do.  It keeps the mind open to new possibilities, and forces you to think a little outside the boundaries of your usual game, which can lead to greater creativity within the game you prefer.Plus, I don't agree with Mr. Dyal.  d20 is not the end-all, be-all of mechanics.  It does not do everything well.  So, exposing yourself to other mechanics keeps your mind open to other things that can be done.  It is also good to remember that 3e came about largely due to compaison of 1e and 2e to other games.  If we want the game (in terms of our individual campaigns and on the whole as a rules-set) to continue to improve, we need to continue comparing it to other things.</blockquote>

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