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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mishihari Lord" data-source="post: 6578432" data-attributes="member: 128">I can understand that point of view even if I don't entirely agree with it.  There are a lot of components of D&D that I find unintuitive, stilted, artificial, clunky, and so on and so on.  Frex, IMO:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hit points suck as a mechanic.  What the heck are they anyway?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Classes are a straightjacket</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vancian casting has no close analog in fiction, not even in Vance, or at least the ones I remember reading</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Levels are simplistic and arbitrary</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alignments are just weird</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Don't even get me started on initiative rules in 3E+</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(Imagine an insult to your favorite mechanic here in case I've missed it.  Don't want to leave anyone out)</li> </ul>Yet somehow, it comes together as a really fun game, with all of the elements working together.  And when I want a fun D&D experience, I want all of those things even though I dislike them individually.  And when I want a different RPG experience I find a game with none of those mechanics and have a great time too.For me at least, it's not that I demand D&D remain a bad game.  I demand that D&D remain D&D, warts and all.  Because even with its faults I have a ton of fun with it.</blockquote>