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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 4829495" data-attributes="member: 7635">See, this isn't a edition-based point; I could do this same thing in any edition, but I'll compare experiences.I played in a group in HS where there were 5 of us, everyone ran a game and everyone played in everyone elses game. We played as often as school/homework/jobs would let us. Our games very very story intensive and role-play intensive; NPCs to meet, plots to foil, places to explore. We also didn't do a lot of pointless combat either and the bulk of our XP was story-reward. Battles were EPIC insofar as if we were going to have a fight, it was a plot-related battle or an occasional goons-come-to-battle you moment. No random encounters here! Oh, and there was the occasional module for gold, magic, and some XP mining.But I don't think what you described is what I "missed". There are a lot of good things I recall carried from 2nd to 3rd and even into 4th (but someone 4e is mutating them, and I don't know why. That's another thread.) They carried in Star Wars and M&M and even our brief stint in Vampire. I loved my PCs, I can tell you everything about my handle's namesake not because he was the 24th elven thief I rolled up but because he was the first!Anyway, we had different experiences, and that colors our opinions of things like this.</blockquote>