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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simon Marks" data-source="post: 3911982" data-attributes="member: 56243">RC, may I take this line as the core of your complaint about the proposed D&D 4e?Because I can simply reverse the line to;"D&D at it's worst is a toolbox of archetypes and options"and state my feelings about D&D.I don't want a generic D&D, I want D&D as it's own game.I've got Hero for Generic (the only Generic system I've liked). I want D&D to be D&D.Let's take Al-Qadim as an example. I'm on record for stating that I've played AD&D about 3 times. That doesn't include abortive games that lasted a session - including playing Al-Qadim.Here's the thing. Although it was a great setting, the mechanics where... well, they didn't fit. For me, I don't agree that D&D was a good generic fantasy system. I think it's had specific assumptions built right into the system - always has. And these explicit assumptions render it less good at certain things than others.Like playing pirates. Or Mythic Europe of the Order of Hermes. Or investigating dark cults. D&D is simply less good at dealing with these sort of games than other systems.Diluting D&D to be able to deal with these type of games makes D&D harder to run at it's core system.I can play these games with D&D, but it won't be as good as if I use Blue Rose, or Ars Magica or Call of Cthulhu.I don't agree that 3e strength was it's flexibility - it was it's robustness and consistency. It's weakness was that it took too long to prep and design for.If they sacrifice Flexibility for ease of Prep, that's fine by me. Because I don't come to D&D for flexibility. If I want to run a game that doesn't play to D&D's strengths, I won't run D&D. I'll run something better suited to the game.So, we have a basic difference of concept about what is good in D&D.</blockquote>

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