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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8174453" data-attributes="member: 16586">I can understand a comparing the way someone is playing the game to a specific game and saying that what they are doing is pretty far removed from the text. That's specific targeted analysis. I personally do that all the time.D&D is not one game. It's many games that share some common tropes. I personally think the way most people play modern iterations of the game is pretty far removed from Moldvay, but I am not comfortable saying that any successor or spiritual successor is more or less legitimate than any other.The reason I think this is important is because when you position yourself as a tastemaker on this count you are saying who does and does not get to have relevance in the conversation. This is a D&D conversation on a board almost entirely dedicated to D&D. When you position someone else's play outside the bounds of what counts as D&D you are basically saying that in the context of the conversations we are having on this board that other people's experience and perspective are not worth considering.Go ahead and make that argument if you want to. I just would not be surprised if you get push back on that point. It's also a terrible way to have nuanced conversations with people who disagree with you on that point.</blockquote>