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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8436842" data-attributes="member: 87792">To me oD&amp;D is a tad too gamey for my liking. When a character can be pounded on for an entire minute (or even six seconds) by an orc with an axe who explicitly hits with a natural 20 and gets the maximum possible damage then you are necessarily playing superheroes.And the difference between needing a day to heal from the worst an orc can do with an axe and needing a week is pretty trivial, especially as you are fully capable in that time. It may for you be the straw that broke the camel's back - but this is just one straw when the camel was already carrying bales of hay in a way that most other RPGs don't.D&amp;D is literally a hacked tabletop wargame. There's a case to be made that 4e was a hacked boardgame rather than being a hacked wargame, admittedly. But if D&amp;D is like anything it's a computer RPG - or, more accurately, most computer RPGs are based on games that were directly based on D&amp;D. And no, that's not how CoC plays.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8436842, member: 87792"] To me oD&D is a tad too gamey for my liking. When a character can be pounded on for an entire minute (or even six seconds) by an orc with an axe who explicitly hits with a natural 20 and gets the maximum possible damage then you are [I]necessarily[/I] playing superheroes. And the difference between needing a day to heal from the worst an orc can do with an axe and needing a week is pretty trivial, especially as you are fully capable in that time. It may for you be the straw that broke the camel's back - but this is just one straw when the camel was already carrying bales of hay in a way that most other RPGs don't. D&D is literally a hacked tabletop wargame. There's a case to be made that 4e was a hacked boardgame rather than being a hacked wargame, admittedly. But if D&D is like anything it's a computer RPG - or, more accurately, most computer RPGs are based on games that were directly based on D&D. And no, that's not how CoC plays. [/QUOTE]

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