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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8265584" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>D&D works best when it's a troupe play where the characters grow into their abilities. While you can use the game for a variety of things, the biggest hurdle the game has is level advancement. Characters don't start "fully developed" and there's always something you can add to them to make them more powerful.</p><p></p><p>I can completely agree with others that other games do their genre better than D&D, and I don't see that as a bad thing. I'm not very eager to learn new rulesets, but a lot of times most other games have rules that are far easier to learn than D&D because they lean into their genre so heavily, whereas D&D tends to be more kitchen sink.</p><p></p><p>A good example? The recent Aliens roleplaying game. While you could use D&D rules in that game, it would do very poorly emulate the feel and mood of the game. While you could use D&D, and say, Steel Predators to get something close, the D&D game engine would give me a very different feel. It would be difficult to emulate the secret agendas (the distrust works against the troupe aspect of typical D&D) and powerlessness (D&D is generally about beating the monsters, not being crushed by them) without taking a hammer to the D&D game, whereas the Alien game is built for what it does without tweaking a lot of dials and knobs to get there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 8265584, member: 52734"] D&D works best when it's a troupe play where the characters grow into their abilities. While you can use the game for a variety of things, the biggest hurdle the game has is level advancement. Characters don't start "fully developed" and there's always something you can add to them to make them more powerful. I can completely agree with others that other games do their genre better than D&D, and I don't see that as a bad thing. I'm not very eager to learn new rulesets, but a lot of times most other games have rules that are far easier to learn than D&D because they lean into their genre so heavily, whereas D&D tends to be more kitchen sink. A good example? The recent Aliens roleplaying game. While you could use D&D rules in that game, it would do very poorly emulate the feel and mood of the game. While you could use D&D, and say, Steel Predators to get something close, the D&D game engine would give me a very different feel. It would be difficult to emulate the secret agendas (the distrust works against the troupe aspect of typical D&D) and powerlessness (D&D is generally about beating the monsters, not being crushed by them) without taking a hammer to the D&D game, whereas the Alien game is built for what it does without tweaking a lot of dials and knobs to get there. [/QUOTE]
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