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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 8266465" data-attributes="member: 694">Super hollow, if only because I see it all the blasted time and it gets tiresome. A dedicated D&D player who wants to sample other genres and play "space-flavored D&D" or "pulp-flavored D&D" or "modern-flavored D&D" can already do that—provided one is willing to play either an OSR game or a 3e-based d20 System game. In fact, it's hard to think of genres that haven't been given the D&D treatment at some point within the last twenty years.Of course the end result isn't going to be a different RPG. It's going to feel like D&D. And that's the whole point! If what you want is a heroic adventure game with experience levels and character classes, why would you look anywhere else? Which is why this attitude——baffles me. As if "D&D in space" were somehow undesirable (or difficult to achieve given all the extant material out there—there are no fewer than four OD&D-compatible sets of starship rules and probably more for 3e sitting on my bookshelf right now). No, it won't be Star Trek or Star Wars, it'll just be star-flavored D&D, but why wouldn't a group of D&D players want that? Sometimes the goal isn't to feel like you're in a weekly Trek episode or a bad Star Wars sequel movie. Sometimes the goal is to earn XP and gain levels as a Jedi or a Science Officer or whatever.</blockquote>