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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6066189" data-attributes="member: 27160">I actually quite like this classification schema - it might be interesting to explore further, but I don't have time at present to do so. It seems odd that the last is a blending of several others; I find that a little suspicious regarding the overall applicability of the scheme, but hey ho.I think the "flaws" you point out here are just some of what the original author was getting at with the following quote:"It’s not necessarily Monty Haul or crude powergaming, although it can degenerate into that—just as all other flavors of D&D have their dark sides. (Nasty player vs. player rivalries, mindless hack-and-slash, railroading, CoDzilla, and tedious combat encounters, for examples.)"Speaking for myself I find that "heroic" or "player selected character goal oriented" play actually works better in a "shades of grey" setting and system that in one where the "flavor is about scrubbing away moral ambiguity from the setting itself". That may be the way 2e D&D went about it - maybe that's even why I was ultimately so disappointed with 2e, I don't know - but it certainly isn't required or even, IMO, desirable for a "heroic/character goal driven" game.</blockquote>