Blockader7 said:
Well, first off, those idiots are really nice people and a couple I'd imagine I could be friends with should they live closer to this God forsaken desert I call home. You came out with a stance about D&D on a D&D board to D&D players. If you don't suspect troll will be called you're very naive. If I went to a Harn board and said "Harn isn't roleplaying" I would certainly expect people to react as if I were a troll. Even if I had many valid points I would still expect a few folks to call troll. Now, on to my second point.
D&D has never been anything like Warhammer to me. I played Warhammer briefly and did not like it so much because I couldn't play a role. Go figure. Now, this may be due to the fact that I started playing D&D long ago and have always been deeply rooted in playing a character as a character and not a miniature with a name and a higher point value than most of the other mooks on the "board". I can certainly see how someone who was new to D&D with this edition or who came over from say Warhammer might end up playing the game very similarly, but frankly, D&D pales when looked at as a Wargame/Strategy game. Game Workshop handles that aspect better. The DMG handles some of the roleplay aspects fairly well, and the PH goes a little way into explaining it, but I admit it could certainly be better. But, saying D&D is not roleplaying simply shows a misunderstanding of the core rules as is.
