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Message: <blockquote data-quote="resistor" data-source="post: 3908429" data-attributes="member: 9142">For me, the key PRO of the old hodge-podge approach is its flexibility: I can run a very wide range of games in a very wide range of styles from the core rules.  Sure, there are suggestions (like the core pantheon), but they are simply that: examples.  We don't have "Pelor's Fist" as a core feat, or anything.  The core rules, while they provide some examples, are fundamentally setting- and style-independent.The main reason I am not planning to buy 4e is that it seems to moving towards a more "uniform" D&D experience, for lack of a better word.  All of what I have read seems to suggest a much stronger assumed setting and playstyle, which seems even to have crept into the edges of the mechanics.I understand why they would want to do that for marketing reasons.  I also understand that I won't buy 4e because of it.</blockquote>