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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3910774" data-attributes="member: 2067">Boo hiss for this idea. I believe that the hodgepodge is strong enough to contain pokemon trainers and giant sword-wielders and, yes, even emo drow children. To include some other modern fantasy, let's say armored bears, daemons, and Dust (I'm stoked for the Golden Compass movie, I CAN'T HELP IT!).Of course, that doesn't mean D&D should get rid of what has come before -- the wizards and the barbarians and the assasins need to be in the same bucket.Honestly, it would have excited me more to see a Monster Trainer class in the 4e core than it does to see the Great Wheel eradicated in the 4e core. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />IMO, it should.But, also, 4e doesn't seem to be interested in doing that, from some of the tidbits. If the OP is right and D&D is trying to define itself as apart from the fantasy that influences, it will be WEAK SAUCE. I don't want Dave Noonan's homebrew. I want the game to be MY setting for MY group, or my friend Eddie's setting for our group. Rather, in defining itself as apart from those influences, D&D is trying to be it's own setting for all groups. IMO, that's a project destined for failure, because it flies in the face of something D&D has always done very well.And I definately appreciate the "buffet style" analogy better than the bread analogy. Pick and choose your favorite foods, pile them on a plate, and call it delicious. 4e seems to be intentionally limiting it's buffet for the core.</blockquote>

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