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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1253206" data-attributes="member: 1645">If I may build on my earlier post...I think the new Basic D&D should be called Basic D&D, but it should be D&D Lite (as johnsemlak called it).  When Basic D&D "evolved into a game in its own right," it splintered the rule base and the fan base for no good reason.  If the new Basic D&D can remain 100% compatible with "Advanced" D&D, then we can even have Basic D&D adventure modules, etc., that work fine with the "Advanced" D&D rules but only use a subset of the classes, spells, etc.To expand on that, I'd like to see, say, multiple iconic fighters statted out for first through fifth level: one knight, one archer, one pikeman, one axe-wielding dwarf, etc.  Those iconic "templates" (not in the current rules sense) would spell things out as clearly and concretely as old-school classes -- a 5th-level Knight would have his skills and feats fully delineated.</blockquote>