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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4541866" data-attributes="member: 2067">The OS comparison is interesting. Recently I had the thought that 4e (and most editions of D&D) doesn't know whether it's a system or a game.If it's a game, it needs to be tightly focused on one thing. Mario doesn't need to be able to engage in zombie survival horror. If you're playing Metriod, you don't need to worry about recruiting the right quarterback. A game that tries to branch out and give you more diversity usually suffers for it, but a game that is tight and specific often benefits from it. 4e is fairly focused around minis combat, but it's not quite a pure minis combat game.If it's a system, it needs to be able to cover a broad amount of things. No one expects the hardware to cover everything, but the Wii should be able to do an FPS, an RPG, it should be able to cover Mario and Metroid and Zelda and a variety of other games.4e is certainly not broad enough to be a system.4e isn't a system you plug games into, and it's not a game that you have a devoted single-issue support for. It can't figure itself out, in so many ways, so people who want one thing or the other aren't happy.I'd say it's more of a game than a system, but it's still not a very focused game (half of the core books will go unused by most gamers, for instance).</blockquote>