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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 49532" data-attributes="member: 633">It's not that I don't mind D&amp;D's issues. It's that to me they aren't issues at all, but 'features'. And, as I said, I've played *dozens* of games, and had my friends play them too, and I've been at many cons, and I've talked to the people there, and played with them at home-made games that tried to fix D&amp;D's 'issues', and watched their reactions, so I can say I'm not someone who has only ever played D&amp;D and is afraid of changing.What, all three of them? For every person who switches from D&amp;D to another system there are ten more that tried the other system and then went back to D&amp;D.I've *understood*, I've never said that there's a dychotomy between heroic and realistic. But why should we do it? I don't care about the wackiness. I like some of it, such as fighting just as well with twelve arrows in my body. I don't want realism, and there are a lot of positive sales figures in WotC's offices, and a lot of negative ones in small offices of unknown publishers everywhere, that prove that I'm not alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 49532, member: 633"] It's not that I don't mind D&D's issues. It's that to me they aren't issues at all, but 'features'. And, as I said, I've played *dozens* of games, and had my friends play them too, and I've been at many cons, and I've talked to the people there, and played with them at home-made games that tried to fix D&D's 'issues', and watched their reactions, so I can say I'm not someone who has only ever played D&D and is afraid of changing.What, all three of them? For every person who switches from D&D to another system there are ten more that tried the other system and then went back to D&D.I've *understood*, I've never said that there's a dychotomy between heroic and realistic. But [i]why[/i] should we do it? I don't care about the wackiness. I [i]like[/i] some of it, such as fighting just as well with twelve arrows in my body. I [b]don't want[/b] realism, and there are a lot of positive sales figures in WotC's offices, and a lot of negative ones in small offices of unknown publishers everywhere, that prove that I'm not alone. [/QUOTE]

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